[Plugin] GhostComp - v1.4a - 31 Oct 18
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Yes, I am afraid you do. Ghost Components plugin can only solve performance issues in SU but it would not work as a proxy plugin for exporters. Certainly it could be modified somewhat (and/or the exporter plugin could accommodate) but for that, the two, different authors of the plugins should co-operate on one that works this way.
But then all the other renderers could ask the same.
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thanks Fredo.. you are a beast on what you do
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Great work! "To God be the victory!"
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Wow! What a great plugin...
I can not thank you enough to make this possible on sketchup... Where have I been so far to miss this wonderful plugin. SU Team surely should incorporate this in SU native version. I believe they will put this in the new Trimble Sketchup... Great work Fredo!!! and thanks once again....
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Thanks for this! I´ve only had a short test/peek/session w this RB. It seems super useful!
I had one problem, though: I saved the model when in ghost mode and closed the program. When I opened the same model later I couldn´t reset the geometry to the complex form. I just saw the ghost. Have anyone else had similar experiences?
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Running a freeSU8 on a mac. -
Fredo,I just wondered would this dirty trick http://72.27.230.245/3ds-max/scripts/renderlayers-0 be possible in SU8?
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This is a copy of my plug ins folder, I've upgraded to the new fredo lib and installed the ghost but nothing shows up in the program
Have I got some conflict in here, it's a mess !__loader.rb
.DS_Store
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AddCtrPnt.rb
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ctsMaker
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drawmetal_plugins_1_3_4.rb
dropverts.rb
Examples
examples.rb
examplescripts.rb
extrudeEdgesByEdges.rb
extrudeEdgesByFace.rb
extrudeEdgesByFaces.rb
extrudeEdgesByLathe.rb
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extrudeEdgesByOffset.rb
extrudeEdgesByRails.rb
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extrudeEdgesByRailsToLattice.rb
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faceFlattener019.rb
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flattery
flattery.rb
Fredo6Trace.txt
FREDOSCALE
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FredoScale_Tool.rb
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generateSoapSkinBubble.rbs
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GhostComp%201
Help
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RubyToPython
SCF
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SoapSkinBubbleMenus.rb
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utilities.rb
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Have you activated its Extension from within Preferences.
You might also then need to activate its Toolbar... -
There doesn't seem to be an extension in there ?
It has instal extension which one is the extension ? -
This ?
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Yeah it's not there
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In your list there's 'GhostComp%201' what's that ?
Looks like an html based name ?
There ought to be a folder called 'GHOSTCOMP_Dir_10'
containing these files
This suggests you has mis-installed it... -
Dunno what that was but removing it sorted it, didn't even need to turn the extension on. Thanks TIG
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Hello Fredo, thanks for another great plugin. So I startet to use it and it worked just fine. I've lots of railings in my model, some are just copies of components but I also had to make a bunch of them unique and to tweak them. Finally making even one copy of an component took so long I decided to use your ghostcomp. And it worked - but now Sketchup always chrashes when I try to create a ghost component. Do you have any advice or idea what to do about that? Thanks in advance.
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@parsleybrain said:
Hello Fredo, thanks for another great plugin. So I startet to use it and it worked just fine. I've lots of railings in my model, some are just copies of components but I also had to make a bunch of them unique and to tweak them. Finally making even one copy of an component took so long I decided to use your ghostcomp. And it worked - but now Sketchup always chrashes when I try to create a ghost component. Do you have any advice or idea what to do about that? Thanks in advance.
Please make sure you have the most recent versions. For the crash, it may be some conflicting plugins (some versions of Vray and Podium for instance)
Fredo
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NEW RELEASE: GhostComp v1.1a - 27 Nov 13
GhostComp 1.1a is a release for future Sketchup compatibility. It is advised to upgrade even if there are no functional changes.
See main post of this thread for Download.
Fredo
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Really useful, many thanks.
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@fredo6 said:
The concept behind GhostComp is to associate a simplified version to a component (called Ghost). Then the script provides an easy way to switch back and forth between the Ghost version and the Real version in the model.
Hi Fredo,
I integrated this concept into the last version of 3D Tree Maker, with a function that could be called by external plugins to switch/and back from full view to proxy view. the good thing is that in proxy view only object information needed to rebuild the object is kept in object dictionary, not all the real edges/faces.
If you think it could be interesting to integrate calls to 3DTreeMaker from your plugin, let me know.
Yours
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Sure. Thanks for thinking about GhostComp
I would need to revisit this plugin, but it is a good idea to integrate custom ghost for certain kind of components.
I'll have a look and advise.
Fredo
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Things to know before calling :
- those functions contain purge of unused component definitions and unused materials (after drawing a tree or its proxy). So to be called outside of a loop browsing each component definition, and list of definitions to be rebuild if needed after calling.
- it contains start/commit, I do not know results of nesting multiple start/commit, so preferably call outside of start/commit.
Needs v1.10 at least (not implemented in previous versions).
Did not tested, but this should work :
#To switch all trees to proxies
if file_loaded?('3darcstudiotreemain.rb’)
M3darcstudiotree.f3das_changealltoproxies
end#To switch all proxies to trees
if file_loaded?(‘3darcstudiotreemain.rb’)
M3darcstudiotree.f3das_redrawall
end
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