Perlin noise installation

j_jones · 22 Aug 2023, 18:08

Hello Sketchup Friends!

I found this cool project in github that will let you play around with perlin noise.

GitHub - huseyinbicen/Sketchup-Ruby-3DTerrain-via-Perlin-Noise: Here we tried to simulate mesh grid-based earth shapes in 3D. For this purpose, perlin noise is used to achieve similarity to real life.

Here we tried to simulate mesh grid-based earth shapes in 3D. For this purpose, perlin noise is used to achieve similarity to real life. - huseyinbicen/Sketchup-Ruby-3DTerrain-via-Perlin-Noise

GitHub (github.com)

It says in the installation instructions to add the files in the "lib" folder to the "Ruby library."

Then gives this example:

1-) C:\Program Files\SketchUp\SketchUp 2015\Tools\RubyStdLib Open Directory 2-) Move the "perlin_noise.rb" and "perlin" files in the "lib" folder to the directory in step 1.

But I have no such folder in my directory trees for Sketchup.


./Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2017
./Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp
./Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Materials
./Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Plugins
./Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Styles
./Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Components
./Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Autosave
./Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Classifications
./Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2017/SketchUp/Templates
./Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2017/WebCache
./Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2017/WebCache/GPUCache
./Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2017/WebCache/Dictionaries
./Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2017/WebCache/Local Storage
./Library/Caches/com.sketchup.SketchUp.2017
./Library/Caches/com.sketchup.SketchUp.2017/fsCachedData

As for Ruby the language, I could only find these dirs


./.gem/specs/api.rubygems.org%443
./.gem/specs/api.rubygems.org%443/quick
./.gem/specs/api.rubygems.org%443/quick/Marshal.4.8
./.gem/ruby
./.gem/ruby/2.3.0
./.gem/ruby/2.3.0/cache

Can anyone tell me where I might put these perlin noise filees so they could be used by Sketchup 2017?

Thank you for any hints
j_jones