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    • soloS Offline
      solo
      last edited by

      The prophecy is fulfilled.....the gods of SU predicted this would happen one day.
      😍

      http://www.solos-art.com

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

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      • spenceS Offline
        spence
        last edited by

        Now that is cool, nice work!

        Spence

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        • R Offline
          remus
          last edited by

          that looks wicked, i can think of a thousand things i would use it for 😍

          http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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          • D Offline
            dylan
            last edited by

            Nice looking ruby, this could open up many possibilities 👍

            http://dmdarchitecture.co.uk/

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            • boofredlayB Offline
              boofredlay
              last edited by

              This looks great. Would you be able to control the amount of extra polygons created? The examples seem to go very high poly.

              http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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                Whaat
                last edited by

                @unknownuser said:

                This looks great. Would you be able to control the amount of extra polygons created? The examples seem to go very high poly.

                The examples shown are done with two smoothing iterations. One iteration may be adequate in many cases.

                SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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                  Fletch
                  last edited by

                  wowwwww Whaat... you are incredible! 😲

                  can it reduce the polygon count of a hi-poly mesh (work in reverse) too?

                  Fletch
                  Twilight Render Cross-platform Plugin for SketchUp on PC or Mac

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                    kwistenbiebel
                    last edited by

                    I completely missed this one....
                    In the example, the mesh is really clean with some nice triangulation.

                    This is unbelievable. I WANT this 😄

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                    • pilouP Offline
                      pilou
                      last edited by

                      Take a look to the freeTopMod about this subject!
                      it import and export obj format

                      Import Su Objects are possible in OBJ Format with this sort of Plugin

                      Have fun with it! ☀

                      Gallery

                      Frenchy Pilou
                      Is beautiful that please without concept!
                      My Little site :)

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                        kwistenbiebel
                        last edited by

                        I don't see the relevance here....Topmod isn't really a subdivision tool right?
                        Or am I missing something?....

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                          Whaat
                          last edited by

                          I would like to show what this plugin will be capable of. Problem is, I have no idea what to model. Can anyone give me some ideas about what to try modeling with this plugin?

                          Think of something that simply isn't possible with the current SketchUp tools. I want to test the capabilities of the code.


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                            Jim
                            last edited by

                            Can it do something simple, and often requested: round the corners of a box?

                            Hi

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                              Jim
                              last edited by

                              It seems to me that this technique was probably developed not for modeling, but for rendering. It allows the modeling program (game engine) to keep a simple, low-poly model in the software for doing the complex calculations, and allow a hardware renderer (graphics card) to do the subdivision and display. The result being a faster overall application.

                              Of course, I could be way off. It's still way cool!

                              Hi

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                                krash88
                                last edited by

                                Hi all. First of all, I work for a company that builds furniture and I do the digital samples in SU. Searching for this type of script is what brought me to these forums and it looks amazing. Our customers are constantly raising the level of detail that they want to see in my images but the limitations of SU make it time-consuming to do so. I have attached a SU6 file of a pillow that I modeled quite a while back and it's quite ugly. If you could, try your script on it and see if it helps. If I could model low poly things like this and subdivide and smooth them, it would save a tremendous amount of time.

                                I have also attached images of both the old pillow and the beginnings of my new one. Connecting all of the lines gives me a headache. Being able to use your script would be great!

                                PS.
                                Is it possible to set a threshold angle with your script in order to keep certain edges, beyond a given angle, sharp?

                                Old pillow
                                http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?4k0gm9lc9jn


                                pillows.gif

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                                  pilou
                                  last edited by

                                  @unknownuser said:

                                  I don't see the relevance here....Topmod isn't really a subdivision tool right?
                                  Or am I missing something?....

                                  hehe
                                  Topmod is the prog who has the big largest collection tools of subdivision! ☀
                                  it's for that I put it here 😉

                                  Frenchy Pilou
                                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                  My Little site :)

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                                    tomasz
                                    last edited by

                                    Whaat,

                                    I was thinking about your plugin.. and I have an idea. Could it keep the original low poly geometry with some default transparent material .. and work similar way to FFD.
                                    When you modify original geometry within group script would give you a chance to update hi-poly one. Like in Bledner - you can see both - low and high-poly mesh.
                                    We could even assign weights to .. edges?

                                    Just a thought.
                                    Tomasz

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

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                                      Whaat
                                      last edited by

                                      @unknownuser said:

                                      Whaat,

                                      I was thinking about your plugin.. and I have an idea. Could it keep the original low poly geometry with some default transparent material .. and work similar way to FFD.
                                      When you modify original geometry within group script would give you a chance to update hi-poly one. Like in Bledner - you can see both - low and high-poly mesh.
                                      We could even assign weights to .. edges?

                                      The ultimate goal is low poly proxy modeling like you have suggested. I believe it can be done but will not be easy. I will be looking at FFD for ideas about how to do it. I am searching for papers about how to implement it but have not found any yet.

                                      BTW, creased edges have already been implemented.

                                      SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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                                        Whaat
                                        last edited by

                                        @jim said:

                                        Can it do something simple, and often requested: round the corners of a box?

                                        It is not suited very well to this purpose although it could be done if the box was modeled a certain way.

                                        SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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                                          kwistenbiebel
                                          last edited by

                                          Whaat, I can think of numerous occasions I can use your script...

                                          For example: 'Makehumans', the open source human figure maker, produces low-poly models, which could definitely use some subdividion before using them in sketchup for rendering.

                                          When you look at the following rendering I made, you can see that subdivision is no luxury here:
                                          (by the way, you can find makehuman at this link: http://www.dedalo-3d.com/ )

                                          http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/kwistenbiebel1/28-weeks-later-2.jpg

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                                            Whaat
                                            last edited by

                                            @krash88 said:

                                            I have attached a SU6 file of a pillow that I modeled quite a while back and it's quite ugly. If you could, try your script on it and see if it helps.

                                            Here is the result after two smoothing iterations. (less than 3 seconds to convert from 324 to 5476 faces). It actually looked almost the same after only one iteration. (0.3 seconds) Should save you some time! 😄

                                            Looks pretty good to me!


                                            old and new pillow.jpg

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