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    [Plugin] Remove group materials, leave geometry material

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    • plot-parisP Offline
      plot-paris
      last edited by

      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!

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      • M Offline
        Matt666
        last edited by

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

        Frenglish at its best !
        My scripts

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        • plot-parisP Offline
          plot-paris
          last edited by

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

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            vinchvinchvinch
            last edited by

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

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            • J Offline
              Jackson
              last edited by

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

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

              Jackson

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                @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.

                http://i449.photobucket.com/albums/qq215/JacksonPhotobucket/Malm1.jpg

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

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

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                  watkins
                  last edited by

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

                  Kind regards,
                  Bob

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    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.

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

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                      watkins
                      last edited by

                      Thank you Thomas.

                      Regards,
                      Bob

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                      • J Offline
                        jds
                        last edited by

                        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 πŸŽ‰

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

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

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

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                            Matt666
                            last edited by

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

                            Frenglish at its best !
                            My scripts

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                            • Didier BurD Offline
                              Didier Bur
                              last edited by

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

                              DB

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                                Matt666
                                last edited by

                                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 πŸ˜‰

                                Frenglish at its best !
                                My scripts

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                                • Didier BurD Offline
                                  Didier Bur
                                  last edited by

                                  Merci,
                                  C'Γ©tait pour savoir comment l'indexer sur mon site.

                                  DB

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                                  • thomthomT Offline
                                    thomthom
                                    last edited by

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

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

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                                      Matt666
                                      last edited by

                                      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.

                                      Frenglish at its best !
                                      My scripts

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                                        Matt666
                                        last edited by

                                        Thank you Jackson πŸ˜„

                                        Frenglish at its best !
                                        My scripts

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                                        • J Offline
                                          Jackson
                                          last edited by

                                          Amazing work Matthieu! πŸ‘ πŸ‘

                                          Jackson

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                                            Jackson
                                            last edited by

                                            Sorry Matthieu, I just ran a test and this isn't working, or at least it's not working at all as I would like. It doesn't create distinct components according to colour as ThomThom suggested- after running it on 3 identical car components which I'd painted different colours it just turned them all blue and they are still intances of the same component. I don't understand the logic behind the new colour choice for default either (personally I don't like ruby scripts to use their own material libraries, as I keep very strict control over my materials libraries, but that's another story). Surely this feature overrides the whole point of the original script i.e. that it replaces the default material applied to geometry within groups and components with the material which has been applied to the groups or component. Now all the geometry with default material applied turns a new global colour, which make the script useless for V-Ray users.

                                            Sorry for the criticism, hopefully you understand it is intended strictly constructively! I am still your number one fan! πŸ˜†

                                            Jackson

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