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    • Didier BurD Offline
      Didier Bur
      last edited by

      @unknownuser said:

      the GE Snapshot (which is a horizontal face on 0 z axis) would stop the trees falling under i

      Yes. The ruby "raycast" method don't care of hidden layers or entities (no way to get rid of this). You should make a component of your GE snapshot, save it outside your model, delete it in the model, spray your trees, and bring the GE snapshot component back afterwards.
      Regards,

      DB

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      • GaieusG Offline
        Gaieus
        last edited by

        If you unlock it and cut it,you can insert it into another model with the Edit > Paste in place command. At the end you can bring it back in the same way to make it sure it is really at the same place.

        Gai...

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        • Chris FullmerC Offline
          Chris Fullmer
          last edited by

          Any thoughts on my requests Didier? Look back a few posts. Especially the first one. It's really important to my workflow. Would it be possible to include? Thanks for looking,

          Chris

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

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          • Didier BurD Offline
            Didier Bur
            last edited by

            Yes, it is possible to include your requests, but you'll have to be patient 🎉
            I'm on a huge project now and I'm afraid I must leave my freebies as they are for a couple of weeks...

            DB

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            • Chris FullmerC Offline
              Chris Fullmer
              last edited by

              Oh I can be patient 😄 I just wanted to make sure you saw my thoughts and would see if they were good ideas or useless. Thanks for looking at it Didier, you're the best!

              Chris

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

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              • S Offline
                sbthomas
                last edited by

                Gaieus & Didier;
                Using your suggestions I have been able to overcome the issue of spraying in the valleys of GE snapshots. The process is as follows:

                Get GE snapshot
                toggle terrain
                save-as "snapshotname"
                unlock terrain
                explode terrain
                edit>copy terrain
                file>new sketchup project
                edit>paste-in-place
                insert component
                spray component
                delete terrain
                import saved snapshot
                place model back to GE

                thanks again for your help.
                STAN

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                • GaieusG Offline
                  Gaieus
                  last edited by

                  Hi Stan,

                  In order to make sure your original terrain remains intact,after the step where you copy it,you can just undo the steps in the original model (the copied version will remain on the clipboard and you can use the paste in place command in the new model to spray the components).

                  Gai...

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    This is one of my absolute favourite rubies. I just detailed a large terrain model with 4000 trees in no time. I would never have gotten such a rich detail to it manually.

                    Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                    List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                    • Chris FullmerC Offline
                      Chris Fullmer
                      last edited by

                      Hi Didier, I have found that this script is conflicting with progressbar.rb, and therefore crashing all scripts that are using progressbar (makefaces in particular!, but I found the problem while developing my own script). There is a pb.update() method in the progressbar that seems to not work so I'm guessing that is where the conflict is - but I could be WAAAAY off. Thanks Didier!

                      I was wondering if anyone else could confirm this?

                      Chris

                      Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        Does it make use of the disable UI argument for .start_operation ?

                        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                        • Didier BurD Offline
                          Didier Bur
                          last edited by

                          @unknownuser said:

                          Does it make use of the disable UI argument for .start_operation ?

                          No.
                          Is there still a conflict with progressbar ? 👊
                          I changed the class and methods names to get rid of any conflict in the latest version released. 😲

                          DB

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            It'd be interesting to see what speed this plugin worked at with the SU UI disabled. Any chance of an updated version?

                            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                            • Chris FullmerC Offline
                              Chris Fullmer
                              last edited by

                              @didier bur said:

                              Is there still a conflict with progressbar ?

                              Nope! It is working great now with progressbar. Thanks for fixing it so quickly too,

                              Chris

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

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                                milfot
                                last edited by

                                Wow, this plugin is fantastic!!

                                Much appreciated... i am off to build a forest.

                                ..cam

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                                  denna003
                                  last edited by

                                  THAnk you very much!!!! 😉

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                                    AcesHigh
                                    last edited by

                                    Didier, is this the last version of your tool?

                                    Can I make a suggestion? It seems the altitude option is too "hard". I mean, I think you could add some dialogue to add a % of chance that components will spray below and above the maximum altitude. That way, they will concentrate on the set altitude, but some of them will spread casually beyond (unless you set the chance of that happening to 0%)

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                                      tomislavm
                                      last edited by

                                      Thank You!
                                      Where in Croatia?

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                                        madhav
                                        last edited by

                                        Thanks a lot

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                                        • Didier BurD Offline
                                          Didier Bur
                                          last edited by

                                          @unknownuser said:

                                          Where in Croatia?

                                          Pisak, that's 40kms South of Split and 20kms North of Makarska.

                                          DB

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                                            tomislavm
                                            last edited by

                                            Nice place for vacation!

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