[Plugin] Material Replacer
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Hi Thom,
with a little guide from TIG here, I manage to update this plugin.
I have no knowledge about ruby , not even a basic grammer
, but as I am familiar with other languages like php and C++ , I just gone through the some ruby resources and made this modification.
Some minor changes is required as when trying to replace the default material , it is replacing whole model.I am attaching both modified code and skp test file, hope you rectify this minor bug
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http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=55340
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Thanks. I've added an issue in the BitBucket repo to remind me to merge this: https://bitbucket.org/thomthom/material-replacer/issue/1/merge-user-fix
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I have been exploring the Thea for Sketchup latest build on my Mac at work using SketchupPro2014 and was just playing around with the Thea Materials and Material Replacer this morning and think I have run into a serious problem.
I had just added some of the default materials from the Thea library to the sketchup material library and had applied them to some of the components I had been working with earlier.
I had applied the materials to the whole components instead of the faces of the components on some, while going inside of the components and adding the materials directly to the faces of the objects on others.
I then drew a rectangular plane next to the models to pull the default material color from.
Next I successfully used the material replacer to replace the materials applied to the components as a whole from their Thea Material (which was one of the default wood materials) back to the default white/blue sketchup material from the rectangular plane I was pulling from.
However when I attempted to replace the materials inside of the components where the faces had been directly painted (using the example 01.mat.thea inside the displacement folder in the Thea Material Library) sketchup hung up.
I force quit the program expecting to simply reopen the file, or at least even an earlier version of the file, but to no avail. All I get now when trying to open the file is this error message
I even used Time Machine, which pulled versions of the files created earlier... same problem... Could you please shed some light as to how this problem could have occurred, or how I might be able to recover my files?
-Thanks
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Can you upload or PM the file in question?
Does the backup file work? (the one with the tilde) -
Here are the corrupted files. Thankfully I had exported the file as an .obj to render and was able to convert the .obj to a .dae and recomponantize the model back in sketchup... but still... pretty scary.
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None of the files work. Even when I attempted to recover the files using Time Machine, the restored files still were treated like the corrupted files currently in the folder. Here are the recovered files, from the previous evening in case you want to try and poke at them...
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@thomthom said:
@unknownuser said:
When I use paint bucket tool to change the material on some object, the UV is reset.
Use the Entity Info to replace materials - then the UV is preserved.
Ive used UV textures to uvmap a mesh, is it still possible to replace the material. It keeps messing up the uv cause the base textures have different scale settings. I have the same material 3times, but they all have different settings though
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Rombout,
You can change materials while keeping the same UV with Fredo Tool's Thrupaint. There's an Icon with a multicolor brush there that does that. That doesn't do it automatically, but you can paint without being inside the group wich is handy.
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TT:
Wow! Thanks very much. Great tool that does what it names says. Rare these days.
Ron
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Thank you!
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]I think it would be great to be able to consolidate materials by selecting in the material palette. I've seen the script that isolates objects by material (material selector), but it doesn't seem to work in my model. Besides, I'm trying to take a hundred-ish materials and reduce them to a more manageable figure.
I've run your material consolidator, but the materials aren't exactly the same.
As you can see... if I could select a couple dozen similar grays and tell them to be one... life would be much better.
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I'm using this plug in a lot. Changing materials all the time in my work. It would be good to have an option to change materials in a group or component only and not in all model. Would that be difficult to integrate?
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Can you continue to improve this version for su2019?
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@huybinhktr said:
Can you continue to improve this version for su2019?
It should work in v2019.
Are you having issues ?
If so, then what are they ??Note: because it hasn't been updated for many years it is not 'signed' for full compatibility with all Extension Loading Policies in the newer SketchUp versions - BUT this doesn't matter provided that you have your newer SketchUp's Extension Manager's Loading Policy set to 'Unrestricted'...
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I use a very old plugin Material_Maintenance that still works up to SU 2018 Pro.
Really super for material replace and edit.
Author Akira Yamada and not to be found anywhere.
His web listed as http://www.KeepingMyHandIn.com but a dead end.
It is free to edit and distribute
I have folder in the SU plugins and the Material_Maintenance.rb copied to same.
Works for me and check it out and see if it can be configured properly as an rbz
Help from the Masters needed.dtrarch
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It's nice this works in the model. It would be nice too if one could do the material replacement in the browser.
Another nice thing is how the material replacer can give you the name of a material immediately. This is a slow, painful process on the Mac. Why?
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Hei there! This pluigin was one of the best things to use last year for me, but since I upgradated to sketchup 2023 I ca't seem to install it. It shows "unsigned". Can anyone help?
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@irinapopescu said:
... but since I upgradated to sketchup 2023 I ca't seem to install it. It shows "unsigned".
Unsigned doesn't mean it won't install. You just have to make sure you have set loading policy in Extension Manager to allow unsigned extensions to load.
Please update your forum profile. It is way out of date.
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I need to paint only those face with default material inside a model of a window I've created. But if I a replace with the Replace Material plugin it will change all the file default faces.
Any tips? Thank you.
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@mtanure1234, just use the 'B' button on the UI, which will color only the backside face. Then, use the 'All adjacent faces with the same material' button to map material to all of them in that object.
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