[Plugin] Remove group materials, leave geometry material

Matt666

We loosed some posts here

So, script's post has been updated... Not tested enough, but I'm a few confident !
Now all Comp/Groups materials are transfered to geometry if you want.

Jackson

Seems to work perfectly Matthieu! I just ran it with the test file I sent you and it reassigned all the materials in just a few seconds. This is such a valuable little tool for "VRay for SU" users, I will spread the good word (and your name) over at the ASGvis forums.

Many many thanks for creating this little gem, MERCI BEAUCOUP!
Jackson

Matt666

You're welcome, Jackson ! Glad to help you !

plot-paris

thanks so much, Matthieu!

only one minor thing still: while all the materials are applied to faces and the material of the outer group is changed to default, nested groups still keep their assigned material. that is not very important, because the face's textures are the dominant ones. but to be perfectly accurate, it would be great if the plugin could assign the default material to nested groups too.

one positive side effect I experienced is, that your plugin coloures front and back faces. that is really good!

Matt666

Hi plot-paris !
ok, that's been updated !
Thank you for testing !

plot-paris

damn, you are fast! now the plugin is flawless. fantastic! thank you so much!!!

vinchvinchvinch

Hi!
Matt, you are already a legend in ASGvis forum!
Thank you man!

Jackson

LOL, you guys are a two-man developer and beta team!

Great work, I'll link this thread over at ASGvis.

thomthom

@jackson said:

Matthieu,

You are the man! If you can produce a ruby script which removes group materials and applies them to the default geometry you will save me about 3 day's work on this model alone! I'm trying to update my portfolio so this would be of enormous benefit to me as I've got lots to do and very little time to do it.

somewhat off topic, but: where did you get hold of the ground texture?

watkins

Could someone explain exactly what this script does, and what are the benefits? It would help the technically challenged, like myself.

Kind regards,
Bob

thomthom

It makes sure that no materials are applied to groups and components. It will either remove the materials of groups and components or transfer them to the geometry.
For users of V-Ray for SketchUp it has the benefit of faster parsing time and more reliable outcome as VfSU struggles to get correct data for groups and components with materials applied to them.

watkins

Thank you Thomas.

Regards,
Bob

jds

Matt666

i havent tried your plugin just like to thank you for giving this solution

i already stop using the latest vray bec. of some issues but if this plugin will work wow thank you so much

thomthom

Matt; You could benefit from using the extra speedboost argument for the start_operation method which was introduced in SU7.

Matt666

Yep! First code post updated! Thank you Thomthom...

Didier Bur

Hi Matt,
Is this version only for v7 or does it run under v6 too ?

Matt666

Hi Didier!
This update works with both versions.

if Sketchup.version[0,1].to_i >= 7
  model.start_operation("Remove comp & group materials",true)
else
  model.start_operation("Remove comp & group materials")
end

Thank you for the remark

Didier Bur

Merci,
C'était pour savoir comment l'indexer sur mon site.

thomthom

I have a suggestion for an improvement. An option to make components painted with different materials into unique components.

Matt666

Hi thomthom!
Sorry for the delay! Great idea! O've updated the code.
I've tested it veeery quickly....
The plugin post is up-to-date.