[Plugin] Scale and Rotate Multiple (UPDATED Dec 22, 09)

Einstein

And also adding a feature of remembering settings and ability to rotate horizontally and vertically.
If you have any plans to continue developing this great plug

stuff4oleg

+1 vote for doing non-uniform scale.
Let me describe the purpose. I use it for making tiled texture tiling not so noticeable. For example if I have 1 wood plank texture and I create 100 plank faces and apply texture to them - this is Not very convincing. I can add some variation by using Random Select + Scale and Rotate Multiple to rotate some of the planks 180 degrees around their center points. Now tiling is less noticeable. But with Random Select + (-1 Scale X/Scale Y/Scale XY) I can have 8 different variations from a single texture! basic+3 scale variations + 180 rotated+3 its scale variations

Jorgensen

Hi Chris

I have been using this plugin for years to add some realism to scenes. Just twisting the furniture a little....

I had to upgrade to Sketchup 2020, and it seems that I can no longer install this very usefull plugin.

I have tried to install via extension manager, but nothing happens

Am I'm doing something wrong - or does the plugin not support SU 2020?

Best
Jorgensen

Pixero

Not sure that it works with SU2020 but my plugin Chaos does some of the same things.
https://sketchucation.com/plugin/2254-chaos

Jorgensen

Ah thanks Pixero

Just tried it - and it seems to work.

I just have a small problem problem - if I have some chairs standing by a table, I would like to rotate them just slightly, like -1 - +1 degree, but it seems not to work - if I enter small numbers, the objects rotate quite a lot, even if I use -1 - +1.

What do I do something wrong?

Thanks
Jorgensen

ps. thanks for linking to the chaos plugin - I think randomness is really needed to create realistic images.

Einstein

Jorgensen, you are doing everything right.
The plugin has a bug that rotation values are in radians instead of degrees. 1 radian is about 57.3 degrees.
I posted this issue on Chaos' plugin thread but I got no answer

Pixero

Sorry about that.
I have uploaded an updated version of Chaos.rb that hopefully have fixed the rotation problem.

Chaos | SketchUcation

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Einstein

Thanks a ton! I need your plugin very much

keithswd

Hello

I use this plugin all the time, but now with SU 2022 it seems to be causing SU to crash on startup. It was the only non-2022 compatible plugin I had, and removing it from the plugins folder has stopped the crashing.

I see it is only marked compatible up to v2018, is it not being developed any more? Does anyone know of a good alternative if so?

thanks

Dave R

@keithswd said:

but now with SU 2022 it seems to be causing SU to crash on startup.

Hmmm.... I just installed it in SketchUp 2022 and gave it a try. Didn't affect startup and it works as expected.