[Plugin] UV Toolkit
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Quick question...
After mapping to quad faces I decided to 'Save As' on the mapped component. When I looked in my Components folder there were lots of images of each mapped quad. Is this normal?
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eh..? no... that sounds like bad voodoo...
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Sorry, I'm having difficulty with this and Thea
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Is this the issue with those faces you triangulated later?
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You get those texture files immediately after you use UV-Tools - or when you go to Render..?
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@unknownuser said:
Is this the issue with those faces you triangulated later?
Yes
@unknownuser said:
You get those texture files immediately after you use UV-Tools - or when you go to Render..?
I get those if I Fit to Quad Faces within a component then 'Save As' that component to the Component Library. Though I done it twice by accident I can't repeat it now? So let's forget this for now.
But here's what is happening between UV'ing and exporting to Thea.
[a] Fit to Quads
[b] Export (Hierarchy On), UVs get messed
[c] Export (Hierarchy Off), Lots of textures appear in TheaI'll continue to investigate the 'Save As' issue i HAD...
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Here's the Thea topic (just answered there myself):
http://www.thearender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=5665TT, I could not find that topic where you (and others) compared different render engines and how they distort skewed materials.
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I'm not following that tut you mentioned. So I'm not making these unique. I'm doing something out of sequence though?
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No, sorry, I have corrected myself in the Thea thread.
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@gaieus said:
TT, I could not find that topic where you (and others) compared different render engines and how they distort skewed materials.
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=23947
Basically, from this thread it appear render engines for SketchUp do one of two things:
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They access the low-level triangulated polygon mesh in SketchUp and sample UV co-ordinates for each triangle vertex. This leads to distorted textures being rendered incorrectly because distorted textures requires 4 UV points. (Unscaled, Scales, Stretched and Skewed works fine however.)
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They check for distorted textures on faces and export a unique bitmap for each face. This leads to an array of textures/materials in the destination render. It also produce incorrect UV's if the material is layered. As the distorted SketchUp texture is converted into a non-distorted texture. If the render engine user use multiple layers for that material, they won't line up with because the additional texture resources used isn't transformed like the distorted SketchUp texture is. (At least I've not seen any engines that does this.)
So none of the solution is ideal - but one can often get away with it without noticing the flaws if the geometry or texture projection isn't too extreme.
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Thanks. I was looking everywhere BUT the Dev forum.
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Thanks guys, that explained a great deal. I'll use UU3D to map the arch instead.
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You can use the other method of texturing an arch with UV Toolkit I posted here. That works with Thea.
Also Tgi3D Amorph should work (the same way: remember > restore UV's).
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But the arch is already bent. Trying to reverse engineer would be hassle. Unless i'm not thinking straight
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Yes, that's true. This is why I am also urging TT to finish that feature where you could simply make a straight piece (with the same amount of segments), texture it then copy UV's and paste UV's onto the other face (which can be curved).
But everything and anything is more important to him...
I guess he is eating cookies now for instance.
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Cookies do affect my priorities - alas, I've yet received any cookies.
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Here are a few.
Now get started...
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And some more...
Is that enough?
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I'm getting an error message when Sketchup8 loads after installing UV Toolkit2.2.2
Error Loading File clipboard.rb
uninitialized constant TTError Loading File core.rb
uninitialized constant TTError Loading File loader.rb
no such file to load -- TT_Lib2/core.rbError Loading File memory.rb
uninitialized constant TTError Loading File quadface.rb
uninitialized constant TTError Loading File C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/TT_UV_Toolkit/loader.rb
no such file to load -- TT_Lib2/core.rbError Loading File tt_uv_toolkit_2.rb
no such file to load -- TT_Lib2/core.rbHow can it be that these files can't be found? If you look at the screen shot of my Plugins folder and TT_UV_Toolkit folder everthing is exactly where they are supposed to be according to the "footprint" (path diagram) on the first page of this thread. What is the "TT_Lib2" folder? That folder is not mentioned in the path diagram.
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Hi Jeff,
Please, read the first posts where these plugins are published carefully. You seem to have missed the Requirements where it says you need the TT_Lib 2 plugin library for this plugin to work. Some author collect code sniplets they regularly use in different other plugins into "libraries" and these plugins share these sniplets so they are smaller altogether (or at least this is how I understand it)
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