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    Tobobo
    last edited by 4 Jan 2008, 12:14

    This would be really useful when it come to forest planting!

    Great Idea

    Would they be a component like the sandbox meshes?

    Can't Wait

    Toby

    Philippians 4:13

    I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

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      ilay7k
      last edited by 4 Jan 2008, 13:04

      😲 😲 😲
      This one of your great tools!
      Thanks...
      remind me this http://www.thirdpartyplugins.com/stormtracer/ , sorry that i put some c4d's info... Sketchup and C4d are my favorite tools
      also another greeble-tool πŸ˜„ too

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        Didier Bur
        last edited by 4 Jan 2008, 13:19

        @unknownuser said:

        Would they be a component like the sandbox meshes?

        Toby, what do you mean ? 😲

        DB

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          tomsdesk
          last edited by 4 Jan 2008, 15:57

          What do I think?...:`)

          Could have used this yesterday...and the day before...and many days before that!

          Oboy, bring it on!!!

          http://www.tomsdesk.moonfruit.com/
          2.5D Trees & Shrubs!

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            sketchy
            last edited by 4 Jan 2008, 16:22

            Very creative and useful. Well done! My clients were just saying yesterday that they wanted to see the model populated with trees.

            Keep up the amazing work.

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              tomasz
              last edited by 4 Jan 2008, 17:37

              Combined with Kerkythea instancing.. proxy objects.. I was going to write such a tool but it is great Dider had same idea!
              Thanks and looking forward
              Tomasz

              Author of [Thea Render for SketchUp](http://www.thearender.com/sketchup)

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                Pixero
                last edited by 5 Jan 2008, 08:25

                Looks lika a great script.

                Is there a limit to how many components you can use. If so it would be good if you could use at least five.

                Here are my thoughts for improvement:

                Please add the possibility for random rotation and mirroring also. (I use a lot of flat "always face camera" trees and mirroring them help cover up that they look alike.)

                It would also be great to be able to click where you want to "plant" a component and it would randomly choose one from the list and random scale/rotate/mirror it. (Some times you want a little more control over where trees goes.) πŸ˜‰

                One more addition is to be able to have the components to follow the normal of the surface instead of their initial good for grass, stones and such.
                And possibly a setting that controls how steep the angle could be for the trees to be planted.

                And finally a question; Will it put all the components in a layer of their own?

                Anyway, looking forward to try this.

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                  Didier Bur
                  last edited by 5 Jan 2008, 11:45

                  Hi Pixero,

                  @unknownuser said:

                  Is there a limit to how many components you can use. If so it would be good if you could use at least five.

                  No, no limit (excepting the size of the dialog box) πŸ˜‰ Would 6 be good ?

                  @unknownuser said:

                  Please add the possibility for random rotation and mirroring also.

                  Random rotation is done yet. Mirroring is also a good idea, unless I figure out how to do it by script...

                  @unknownuser said:

                  It would also be great to be able to click where you want to "plant" a component

                  Very good idea πŸ’­ I'll add a "point" shape in the list to do that.

                  @unknownuser said:

                  One more addition is to be able to have the components to follow the normal of the surface

                  I had thought about this but didn't implemented it (yet). if you think it is useful, why not ?

                  @unknownuser said:

                  Will it put all the components in a layer of their own

                  It could.

                  Due to the number of settings growing, do you think I must add a "settings" dialog box that will be used if you tell the script to do so, and use defaults if not ?

                  What is already done is an option to allow or prevent component stacking.

                  regards,

                  DB

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                    kwistenbiebel
                    last edited by 5 Jan 2008, 14:03

                    Mighty cool feature !

                    This would be great for placing dummy components of trees around a plot and replace them with medium polysized trees just before rendering with your favorite render app...

                    And now if Google would make it possible to work with hi-poly files (multicore tech etc...you know), I'd be a happy man.

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                      huyvuvn
                      last edited by 5 Jan 2008, 16:36

                      sorry all but .... can someone upload that ruby ? I've already seen the swf video and .... that's so good ! I like it !

                      happiness on the way, not in the destination.

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                        Gaieus
                        last edited by 5 Jan 2008, 16:40

                        Huyvu it seems that Didier is still working on it (also collecting ideas for the development) and the plugin is not ready to be shared yet.

                        (I'm also very excited looking forward to it πŸ˜‰ )

                        Gai...

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                          solo
                          last edited by 5 Jan 2008, 16:44

                          Awesome ruby in the making, who needs Google to give us the tools we have enough very skilled (geeks) coders/programmers here to take our favourite app further and better.

                          http://www.solos-art.com

                          If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                            Gaieus
                            last edited by 5 Jan 2008, 16:48

                            Hehe... True, solo (though the core engine of SU could be improved a little to handle hi-poly models - especially if we have a tool like this πŸ˜’ )

                            Gai...

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                              rhankc
                              last edited by 5 Jan 2008, 18:43

                              Good Work Didier, and thanks for the show and tell. The possibilities are quite extensive.

                              Hank

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                                alexander
                                last edited by 5 Jan 2008, 19:12

                                definitly a teaser..
                                awesome script again Didier.... πŸ˜†

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                                  Pixero
                                  last edited by 6 Jan 2008, 17:05

                                  I've thought some more about you script and have some more ideas for you.

                                  I think a floating web dialog that stays on top while you work with the tool would be a good idea. Maybe it could have tabs to make the window as small as possible but still have room for lots of settings.

                                  At the top there could be four (or more) icons for the different tools: Click placement, Paint placement, Draw region and Select a predefined region from a curve.

                                  The paint tool should work like a brush or spraygun that you can set the diameter for the brush. Show the brush size in viewport as a ring and while pressing a specified key and dragging mouse right or left you could change the scale of the brush.

                                  As for the amount of different components I belive the more the better. Maybe a possibility to choose a directory and all components in that directory would be used.

                                  How does the script choose component based on randomness? Maybe it would be good if it recoginzed the last used component and removed that from the next "selection round" so that two identical components never was used next to each other.

                                  When it comes to scaling I believe that a way of choosing what axes it should scale would be good. Many times you might just want to scale it in one or two axes or use different min/max values for different axes.

                                  Just my thoughts...

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                                    Didier Bur
                                    last edited by 6 Jan 2008, 23:33

                                    Hmm,hmm,
                                    Good ideas, but I didn't receive the Nobel prize of computer programming (yet) πŸ˜„
                                    I'll see what I can do.

                                    DB

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                                      tomsdesk
                                      last edited by 7 Jan 2008, 04:54

                                      @unknownuser said:

                                      I wonder what will happen if for SketchUp 7 they made a bunch of tools and then these tools are coincidentally made by Ruby scripters as well.

                                      The ruby tools will work without screwing up something else!

                                      http://www.tomsdesk.moonfruit.com/
                                      2.5D Trees & Shrubs!

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                                        gata
                                        last edited by 7 Jan 2008, 06:33

                                        That's already happened when SU6 came out. That's life.

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                                          rv1974
                                          last edited by 7 Jan 2008, 09:12

                                          It would be great to have "pick" button to select components in the model space.

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