[Plugin] Sculpt Tools (help)

majid

dear BTM thanx alot for your great job, you coders are developing the "ability Borders" of sketchup..., I thought that it is now time to also have a "soft selection" tool , like what there is in 3dsMAX, and I guess you are close enough to this point.
if yes plz add this feature to your set of tools too

chango70

What method do people use to create the initial grid? Is there a Ruby that can do it? I know Subdivide and smooth does it however in this case the surface only need to be divided into squares not triangles.

Chris Fullmer

I use the sandbox tools to make a grid. Or I make a sphere, and I think it does need to be in triangles.

Have you seen the other thread with the official release? This thread is now outdated.

Chris

mitcorb

chango70:
Try the plugin Triangulate by TIG (I believe this is what it is called and the author), then select the geometry and apply Sandbox "Add Detail". This in effect doubles, or subdivides the selection by one "degree". Continue adding detail to suit, but be mindful of Sketchup's low poly tolerance.
I have found this to work in the couple of experiments I have done. This is just my experience. I do not have Subdivide and Smooth.
Others may use some other methods.

mitcorb

By the way, if you were not already aware, Sculpt Tools is now at Version 1.0 with a separate thread, here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=20781

I am guessing any further discussion should occur in that thread. And sorry that the url is not a link. I will figure out how to do that eventually.

Edit: nevermind, it turned into a link when I viewed my post.

chango70

Cheers I will check the other thread.

majid

how that "lock" feature works?
I've tried several times and the result was, 2times of crash, and 2 times "nothing happening"..

rombout

@solo said:

With a bit of playing, your code will be able to produce this faster than I did using SDS.

ehhh sorry SDS???

Chris Fullmer

SDS is SubDivide and Smooth by Dale Martens, also known as Whaat on this forum.

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(www.smustard.com)

costs $22USD.

Chris

rombout

oke chris,
thanks for explaining it to me... feel so dumb. Really want this script for a long time and still need to find someone with a credit card which can buy it for me!!!

Chris Fullmer

Smustard does take paypal if you have an account with them. They are nice, they will hook up directly to your bank account, so you don't need a credit card at all. And you can also recieve payments from other people via paypal.

Chris

lapx

Does sculpt tools work with v 8?

popfunky

NEED PLUGIN NOW THANK YOU SO MUCH

Box

Krisidious

Yes, Smustard has always honored my hatred of Paypal with google checkout invoices for products I want.

Krass

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Krass

Thanks a lot, a lot for this plugin ! !
Would it be possible to increase the strength and radius using keyboard shortcuts, rather than having to open the settings window?
It’s not very convenient when using it frequently.
Perhaps this feature is already available?
Thanks.

TIG

@Krass

You are reading and asking on a 13 year old thread...
I think this tool is no longer under development.
there might be other newer similar tools around ?

Krass

Thanks,
if somone knows about a better free tool like this.... Anyway its very good and works on SU 2024. iS it open source so that we can modify it?

TIG

The tool is actually 17 years since it was written. It stuck at v1.0 and never advanced. The author did add a 'copyright' notice into the start of the main code RB files. There is an email address for him there too. I suspect that he is no longer interested in it. If you were to 'tweak' some files purely for your own use [without publishing them with his permission] I'd think that's probably OK... But please note that the Ruby coding is the files is 'archaic' and might not work on newer SketchUp versions - and it's poorly formed without modules/classes etc ans uses the frowned upon $ global variables... So use [and edit] with caution...