[Plugin] Random Painter (Updated March 9th, 09)

peter3443

Well, I guess "platform independent" was kind of a mislabeling on my part... It would be more accurately described as a "source-code only package for Windows"; no installer. And thus the wacky error message. Sorry about that.

The Mac installer should have worked for you. It's supposed to be a PPC/x86 universal install. Are you using SU 6 or SU 7? It tries to install in the SU 7 directories, which could be the problem if you only have SU 6. Email me and I'll help you debug it. Sounds like there is at least one or two things for me to fix here.

Thanks,
P

peter3443

Oops, just noticed you list SU 6-7 in your profile. If wxSU did install successfully under SU 7, you should be able to just copy it over to your SU 6 directory. If that's not the problem, let me know.

olishea

nice ruby. good video too, I didn't realise you could combine textures in SU

pilou

IBM BALL (thx Chris, TIG, Twilight)

pilou

Hi Chris why don't make that inside your plug?

   clselection.each{|e|###
          if e.class==Sketchup;;Face
            matx=mats[rand(mats.length)]
            e.material=matx
          e.back_material=matx if paint_back==1
          elsif e.class==Sketchup;;Group or e.class==Sketchup;;ComponentInstance #########
            matx=mats[rand(mats.length)]
            e.material=matx
          end ##########################################################
   }###

(it's not from me of course , it's from TiG

pilou

@unknownuser said:

Mine just randomly paints the faces. Both have their uses.

Ok I understand you pick facets in any order!
It's a pity

About colors
The must will be to use a pallet who yet exist so no need to pick on a wheel color or enter numbers!
like this for example

then I copy past in one move I have that
#334433 #3366aa #6699aa #aabbbb #778877
or that with any difficulties in any Notepad or other
#334433
#3366aa
#6699aa
#aabbbb
#778877
So If you have a board to put that inside that will be perfect!

If I can enter a simple list of color by copy past it be perfect!

pilou

Another one
CoBrA style

eph

Chris, thanks for the cool plugin!

Little feature request: would it be possible to make it paint groups and components as well?
(not inside them, just the component instance itself...)

At this moment, that would save my life (damn deadlines)..!

derei

I didn't installed it yet, but I want to ask a question before:
What's the difference between that two versions? (with and without WxSU) ?

Thanks.

TIG

WxSU is/was an add-on to offer new functionality to SUp but it proved to be a big flaky [and/or difficult to 'get right'] and so Chris wrote the alternative version that didn't need it...

derei

@tig said:

WxSU is/was an add-on to offer new functionality to SUp but it proved to be a big flaky [and/or difficult to 'get right'] and so Chris wrote the alternative version that didn't need it...

Thanks, just downloaded it. I hoped it will work on groups/components too. Maybe Chris reads this and update the plugin?
Other nice functionality would be to be able to "pick" materials/textures from model and/or from Material Browser and use them to paint the selected entities...

lapx

Thanks Chris

This is a very useful tool. Perhaps would could be improved by using su's dialogue color picker which I know you have probably thought of already.

You ruby God's are fantastic!

pilou

Yes ultra cool
I am fan from the beginning!

Chris Fullmer

I'm actually sitting on a color picker I made that is built into SketchUp's view. Its pretty cool. I have not ever gotten around to using it for anything, maybe I should post the code so someone else can use it.

thomthom

@chris fullmer said:

I'm actually sitting on a color picker I made that is built into SketchUp's view. Its pretty cool. I have not ever gotten around to using it for anything, maybe I should post the code so someone else can use it.

Oh - that one! Please do make something out of it. It was cool!

lapx

@unknownuser said:

call up the color wheel dialog

zardoze

Very helpful plug-in, Chris! Thanks so much for making and sharing this.

HornOxx

great - thank you !!!

Ecuadorian

Hey, everyone. Just wanted to show you that the method in the first page is still a good way to create a city. I had completely forgotten about it (even though I wrote it). I'm working on a project that required a background of my city, Guayaquil, and noticed that my city's OpenStreetMap is severely lacking 3D buildings, so I remembered this old method and gave it a go. Here's the result. I worked from an AutoCAD drawing of city blocks.

This time I used Zorro 2 to divide the blocks into buildings, because the original Greeble plugin (not Chris Fullmer's Greeble) is nowhere to be found.

I also used Eneroth's face creator to create the city blocks from the CAD file

And instead of using the original Random Push Pull plugin (didn't bother to find out if it's still supported in SU 2017), I used Chris Fullmer's Greeble, but turning off the offset.

pilou

About the random Push Pull you can use the Joint Push Pull Interactive by Fredo!