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    [Plugin] Terrain Reshaper

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    • C Offline
      cyan.archnet
      last edited by

      Marvelous plugin, THANKS A LOT!

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      • urgenU Offline
        urgen
        last edited by

        ...thanks Didier,very useful! 👍

        --pupil forever...------

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        • jujuJ Offline
          juju
          last edited by

          Didier, you're the MAN! thumps chest twice with thumb side of fist

          The smoothing can be done with Matt666's smoothing plugin, should work like a charm...

          Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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            chango70
            last edited by

            Man u are the reason Sketchup is half as cool as it is for me! Keep it up!

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            • B Offline
              boerenkool
              last edited by

              Mille grazie !

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                redot
                last edited by

                Thanks Didier. Great plugin
                👍

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                • plot-parisP Offline
                  plot-paris
                  last edited by

                  hi Didier,

                  I just wanted to clean up a terrain. I used the options

                  -create group: yes
                  -delete original: yes
                  -merge faces: no
                  -size 600mm

                  when it was finished it looked like this

                  http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/8200/meshmessij3.jpg

                  the original terrain had not been deleted. but the new terrain was incomplete where the old mesh was visible (see image above). no idea, why it didnt work. just thought I would tell, in case you have a clue. 😉

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                  • Didier BurD Offline
                    Didier Bur
                    last edited by

                    Hi,

                    @unknownuser said:

                    The smoothing can be done with Matt666's smoothing plugin

                    Fredo6,Matt666 and me, the french connection 🤣

                    @Plot-paris:
                    Could you PM me the SKP file ? I'm curious to know what bug's still there 🎉

                    DB

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                      pilou
                      last edited by

                      And if Ruby was my cup of tea, that will the The Four Musketeers! 🤣
                      Frenchy Pilou

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

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                        REGIS
                        last edited by

                        And if Ruby was my cup of tea, that will the "club des cinq" 🤣

                        @Plot-paris:

                        Can you show us or share the starting idea, I would like to see before you apply model with contours.(perhaps I've got an idea using your technic to model terrain).

                        After a few tests using different methods, I let you guess
                        who's who.
                        contours.jpg

                        regards

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                        • plot-parisP Offline
                          plot-paris
                          last edited by

                          good morning REGIS,

                          the initial idea was discussed in this thread.

                          for the who is who test - could you give us some multiple choice answers? 😉

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                            putnik
                            last edited by

                            Didier, amazingly useful tool! Thanks so much! Thank you plot-paris and everyone else from this topic for this most excellent idea

                            http://keshas.info

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                              putnik
                              last edited by

                              Didier, don't know if it's possible to do, but it would be helpful (me thinks) if the the script somehow retained the information collected at the "Parsing terrain.." stage, in case one wants to reshape the terrain again with, say, differently sized triangles.

                              http://keshas.info

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                                johnnybfunk
                                last edited by

                                Hey,

                                I've imported 6-7 GE terrain meshes, exploded them, put them all in a group, and then tried to run didier's plugin. 😐 It didn't come out as expected.
                                The problem is, i think, that i didn't really merge the different meshes before runnig the script, and that all 6 or 7 of them reacted as independent meshes.
                                Does anybody have a quick and easy solution for stitching together different meshes imported from GE?

                                Thank you,

                                Félix

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                                • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                  Chris Fullmer
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi Felix, I think that the problem is just that you need to select all the terrains you want to reshape and turn them into a single group. Then just select the 1 group and run the plugin. It will not accept a selection of loose geometry. Only a single group.

                                  Hope that helps,

                                  Chris

                                  Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                  All my Plugins I've written

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                                  • JClementsJ Offline
                                    JClements
                                    last edited by

                                    Didier:

                                    Suggestion/Request

                                    When dealing with a large terrain surface, the Parsing, Triangulation, and Merging functions of the script can take quite a while.

                                    I was wondering if at the end of each function (before the user goes to the next) if an elapsed time could be shown. At the completion of the script, then a final dialog would be displayed showing the elapsed time of each function.

                                    This way, if you had to convert a series of similar terrains, you wouldn't have to wait around at your computer ... just go do something else and come back according the to elapsed times of the first reshaping session. 😄

                                    John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                                    • olisheaO Offline
                                      olishea
                                      last edited by

                                      effing fantastic plugin. i could have done with this a few weeks back, works great

                                      oli

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                                      • plot-parisP Offline
                                        plot-paris
                                        last edited by

                                        sometimes, when you have got a terrain with a lot of detail in places and very little information in others, the terrain reshaper has to be set according to the highest level of detail. that results in models with unnecessarily large numbers of vertexes.

                                        therefore the idea for an improved plugin - the Dynamic Terrain Reshaper! you define a maximum vertex size and a minimum vertex size. then the plugin calculates the whole terrain with the large vertices and subdivides, where neccessary, until it reaches the minimum vertex size limit.
                                        was that comprehensible?

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                                          Aerilius
                                          last edited by

                                          I just used it for a terrain with steep slopes (a vertical rock face). The plugin has much better results than the polygon reducer (which produces many long stretched vertices).

                                          I like your idea much! Maybe the vertex size should also consider the slope.

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                                          • mitcorbM Offline
                                            mitcorb
                                            last edited by

                                            Didier:
                                            I am inferring that this tool is like a re-topology process. Is that correct?

                                            I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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