[Plugin][$] FredoScale - v3.6a - 01 Apr 24

fredo6

One thing I forgot to repeat and insist on.

All transformations in FreeScale are purely geometric. So they totally ignore the behavior of Dynamic Components.

I simply hope it does not mess up anything however.
Personally, I have not played yet with Dynamic Components (I don't have the Pro version) and I have found nothing in the API allowing to inspect or act on such DC behaviors.

Please tell me if you encounter any problem between FreeScale and Dynamic Components.

Fredo

sepo

Cheers Solo

solo

Works great for rigging too, see Matrix bullet dodge timelapse.

dacad

That's cool solo, but don't you mean posing solo?:)

That gave me an idea for an update to ffd plugin for use in posing characters, if we could just place the ffd points in the mesh instead of the standart box position they appear. Is that possible?

solo

DacaD, Posing and rigging, same thing.
What would be great is to be able to select a spot and make joints, then using the bend option it only bend at the joint.

however what we have now works pretty good.

Dan

Cher Fredo, je n'ai qu'un seul mot a vous dire: SUPERBE!

Hey, Google SketchUp, don't you think Fredo deserves a free license of SU 7 PRO ? I think that his plugins brought you a bunch of extra buyers.

dacad

ups, my mistake then, but i tough rigging was the stuff related with doing the bones for a mesh and conecting them that was then used to animate or pose the mesh, at least from what i can remember from animating in 3dsmax. I also called it posing because of the transpose feature of zbrush that they say artists use to pose characters wihtout doing any rigging... i'm not even sure if that name is righ (in technincal terms and english terms )

That's a good ideia too, to animate in sketchup, a mix between sketchyphisics and freedo's free scale/bend. the Phisend plugin....lolol

pilou

@unknownuser said:

clean selection?

Yes clean selection by architectboy or cleanup_model.rb by J.H. Aughey

pilou

And then after use Fredo's bend, clean selection can be useful for lighten the object
clean selection by architectboy or cleanup_model.rb by J.H. Aughey

thomthom

@thomthom said:

@unknownuser said:

Plane Shear is a simple transformation, but it also 'shears' the axes of the components, so that they are no longer orthogonal. Although in most cases you do not have to bother, it might be that some scripts encounter problems with those components if they assume that the axes

I might be working on one at the moment. A script that generates a second cutout for cutout components so you can cut through double faced walls. I haven't checked yet, but I have a suspicion that it might not work out the position properly. So I'll see if I can account for this.

Did some testing; no problems at all. I don't have to do any consideration for skewing.

troyhome

@dan said:

Cher Fredo, je n'ai qu'un seul mot a vous dire: SUPERBE!

Hey, Google SketchUp, don't you think Fredo deserves a free license of SU 7 PRO ? I think that his plugins brought you a bunch of extra buyers.

Free for life if you contribute something this helpful without asking anything but feedback in return.

jmmad

I wrote this not so long ago for your last plugin.

@jmmad said:

Thxs a lot Fred for this plugin, your ruby scripts are amazing.
Do you think you could add more transformations to it, like bend, twist, Bulge
Maybe for a commercial plugin?

And now you make all of our dreams come true and freely?
SU was needing trasformations badly
Thanks for this plugin and for your generosity

I really love the user interface of those deformations, specially Stretch and Bend, so easy and precise to use.
Bend Shear Taper are even easier to use than Bonzai3D deformations.
And stretch its amazing I have never seen something like that before, your solution to the problem of keeping some geometry untouch its genius. Only one feature you could add is to give the strech tool the ability to make more paralel planes that deform the model, so it can afect more parts of the geometry at the same time.
I only have one problem with the stretch tool some times when i strech something even a simple geometry SU freezes and does not respond, and i have to restart SU.

With all your plugins you are giving Sketchup so many atractive and usefull features it's geting updated constantly.
Google should change the name of the program for something like FredoUP
Thanks again.
And yes i think Google should give you a eternal Licence + 1000 for that

utiler

thanks you Fredo, there is nothing more I can say....

ScottPara

Shame shame shame on Google for not patting this guys back! How is it that a lone programmer can take sketchup to this level with little resources in comparison to Google? Yet we get Version 7 which is a polished version of 6 yet we all had to pay. Google should either hire Fredo, Whaat, and a few others (did not mean to leave anyone out) or leave the programming to them for 2 years and see what Sketchup becomes!

Fredo....thank you for an absolutely AMAZING plugin!

Google.....take notice!

Scott

xrok1

@unknownuser said:

Just in case nobody else has noticed, there's an html file (freescale.donation.html) in the freescale_dir_20 folder.. you can make a donation via that link.

i would love to see the donation page in english too so i could give you some kudos. please post english donation link, and thankyou very much.

Now for the soft selection!

EscapeArtist

Thank you for this plugin. It is fantastic!

utiler

@unknownuser said:

Shame shame shame on Google for not patting this guys back! How is it that a lone programmer can take sketchup to this level with little resources in comparison to Google? Yet we get Version 7 which is a polished version of 6 yet we all had to pay. Google should either hire Fredo, Whaat, and a few others (did not mean to leave anyone out) or leave the programming to them for 2 years and see what Sketchup becomes!

Fredo....thank you for an absolutely AMAZING plugin!

Google.....take notice!

Scott

second that Scott!!!

xrok1

thanks, going now! gladly.

Tekelwriter

Beautiful! Thanks a lot!

fredo6

@jmmad said:

Only one feature you could add is to give the strech tool the ability to make more paralel planes that deform the model, so it can afect more parts of the geometry at the same time.

I thought about it, but then it becomes cumbersome in the UI, and you may not easily reach the expected result.
By the way, 2 tips:

because Stretching is often just applying an offset, I suggest to call the Dimension box and just type '+100' or '-100' at the end of the current dimension, if your offset is 100. The field supports arithmetic formula.
double-clicking on the divider will bring it back to center.

@jmmad said:

I only have one problem with the stretch tool some times when I strech something even a simple geometry SU freezes and does not respond, and i have to restart SU.

a) Do you apply it to a selection made of embedded components, with several instances (insinde or outside the selection)?

b) Is this something you can reproduce on a given model (if so, can you post it)

to all users: do you encounter similar cases of Freeze?

Thanks

Fredo