Reduce the 'weight' of this bamboo cane?
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Try to get the number of entities per segment down
Make a component of segments that are the same.
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Maybe someone already has a low poly bamboo cane I could get??
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You could use an extension like Whaat's Poly Reducer to simplify the model. Or better, his Skimp extension.
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I've never used an extension, would that work with SUp 2015?
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Oh yeah. I forgot. You don't use extensions. I expect his Poly Reducer would work, though. It's been around a long time.
You can also edit the texture in an external image editor and reduce its file size, too. In the model it is at 300 dpi but for what it is, 96 will be plenty.
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where do I get that skimp? I don't really know how to reduce the image size, how to find the image texture or what to do with it.
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Poly Reducer is available here in the Plugin Store linked at the top of the page. Skimp is available here.
You must surely have some sort of image editor installed on your computer. In Applications in SketchUp's Preferences, set the image editor as the default.
to edit the texture in the external image editor, go to In Model, right click on the texture and choose Edit Texture Image...
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yeah I have image editors Dave but don't know how to extract the texture from the model, but no biggie I can hide most of the bamboo when working on the model.
OK! Got Skrimp! Where are instructions on loading it in to SUp??
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Joe, I was bored so here's a reduced poly version of your bamboo. see if it works for you.... Didn't change the texture image just the model.
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@joe wood said:
yeah I have image editors Dave but don't know how to extract the texture from the model, but no biggie I can hide most of the bamboo when working on the model.
I told you how to extract the texture from the model for editing it.
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thanks a lot for taking the time Tuna! That's a nice cane!
OK, I downloaded Skimp.rbz, but how do I install it? When (in SUp) I go to Extension Warehouse, and click the Skimp link, I get a 'This program cannot display the webpage'
in SUp, when I click Window>Extensions I don't see anything in there?
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I think the plugin is overkill for this simple component. Please see if the attached is OK for your needs.
FYI. I manually reduced the steps of graduated thickening at the internode with follow me and moving one ring down and scaling it. I did have to sample and paint some of the faces in this area to recover the mapping. I made a component of one node to repeat for the length of the cane.
I fixed reversed faces-- here I had to use TIG Reversed faces plugin to get the textures on the front face without messing the mapping up and creating more work. If the textures had been applied to the front faces originally this wouldn't have been necessary
I used the method Dave suggested to reduce the texture size in GIMP. I could have done it in other simpler software like Preview (on Mac, I don't know the Windows equivalent). Editing is simple once you've tried it.
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Another very nice cane, thanks for your work and time PB!
wow, this cane is 191kb and my original was 2.26 mb!!
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I hope it makes the model easier to work with. For the usage I don't see any difference in appearance.
I do some design like this when my clients will let me. Not as awesome and I certainly don't BUILD it myself! Lucky to have great carpenters take over!
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Let's see a couple images of your design!
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Some other pictures from that project. I didn't use much SketchUp and I never took many pictures, but at least it all got built.
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