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    • L Offline
      lapx
      last edited by

      I'm trying to map a texture on this shape. I must admit I'm totally at a loss understanding the uv and quad rubies.
      I'm sure I'm missing out on some powerful tools if i fail to understand these.
      Need some help in explaining how these would work in this application.

      Thanks!


      UVTEST.skp

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        thomthom
        last edited by

        @lapx said:

        I'm trying to map a texture on this shape. I must admit I'm totally at a loss understanding the uv and quad rubies.
        I'm sure I'm missing out on some powerful tools if i fail to understand these.
        Need some help in explaining how these would work in this application.

        If you want to map that with QuadFace Tools you need to generate the mesh as a set of quads.
        MakeQuads.png
        I assume you use Curviloft to create the mesh, you need to explicitly tell it to generate quads.

        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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        • A Offline
          aea
          last edited by

          hello

          I tried to install Curviloft but does not work. When you install the 4.2 LibFredo6 disappear Hoverselect and Roundcorner that can not be used.

          I attached ... please


          a.png


          b.png

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          • L Offline
            lapx
            last edited by

            Thanks Tom,

            Yes I did use curviloft and joint pushpull after skinning to get thickness. Will the joint pushpull operation destroy the quadfaces?
            I'll try it.

            Thanks again Tom! You are amazing!

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              thomthom
              last edited by

              @lapx said:

              Will the joint pushpull operation destroy the quadfaces?

              I believe so...

              Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                lapx
                last edited by

                Tom,
                I just tried it with your instruction and still could not get it to work. I got it to work on a flat surface.
                Can you try it from the model that I uploaded? The rails are still in the model. It ask for U direction and I get nothing when I try and define U V direction. There is no highlight.

                Thanks,

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                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  @lapx said:

                  Tom,
                  I just tried it with your instruction and still could not get it to work. I got it to work on a flat surface.
                  Can you try it from the model that I uploaded? The rails are still in the model. It ask for U direction and I get nothing when I try and define U V direction. There is no highlight.

                  Thanks,

                  I made a mesh with Curviloft using the rails - made it generate quads and I had no problem mapping it. ( Note that is you have anything selected, the UV mapping tool will limit the mapping to the selected entities. So make sure to deselect unless you can't to map a local region. )

                  As for the extruded surface, I ran Convert Triangulated Mesh to Quads on it, turned out it converted it quite well. (surprisingly as it has issues)
                  But I had to select a local region in order to map it, because the sides of the mesh could not be mapped to a 2D grid.
                  See the screenshot for what selection I made:
                  Mapping.png

                  I picked a center-ish edge and used the Grow Edge Loop so the selection ran the length of the mesh - before it folds around the sides. Then I used Edge Ring to ring loop around the whole mesh. Then I use Select Quads from Edges.


                  UVTEST.skp

                  Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                    lapx
                    last edited by

                    Like I said, You are amazing! I'll try it an let you know the results when i get to the office.
                    Thanks once more and many thanks to come.

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                      aea
                      last edited by

                      my instal new sketchup 8 and works ☀

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                      • L Offline
                        lapx
                        last edited by

                        One step at a time. Here's my curvi loft skin with quads activated. I select the quads by triple clicking in SU. I hit UV map selected quads and nothing happens when I try to pick UV direction. 😞

                        BTW, my pick button on your quad tools is not working. Might that be the problem?
                        Is there a problem using Su native picking tools?

                        Thanks Tom for your help,

                        Lapx


                        uvmap.jpg

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          You do not need to select anything in this case. Since you map everything.

                          Do you get any error messages in the Ruby Console?

                          Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                            lapx
                            last edited by

                            No errors to report. I just get the dialog at the bottom to pick the u direction. 😕
                            Do hidden lines need to be on?

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                              sepo
                              last edited by

                              Installed in on mac book pro mac os 10.6.8 and have this error.

                              Error Loading File __loader.rb
                              uninitialized constant TraductorError Loading File bootstrap_Curviloft.rb
                              uninitialized constant Curviloft::T6Error Loading File CurviloftAlgo.rb
                              uninitialized constant Curviloft::T6Error Loading File CurviloftCurveMover.rb
                              uninitialized constant Curviloft::T6Error Loading File CurviloftPalette.rb
                              uninitialized constant Curviloft::T6Error Loading File CurviloftTool.rb
                              uninitialized constant Curviloft::T6

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                                Dave R
                                last edited by

                                Sepo, is it possible that when you installed the plugin that you put the contents of the folder loose into the Plugins folder? The files listed in your error message should be in a folder called CURVILOFT_Dir_12 inside the Plugins folder.

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                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  @lapx said:

                                  No errors to report. I just get the dialog at the bottom to pick the u direction. 😕
                                  Do hidden lines need to be on?

                                  That might be in order for the tool to be able to pick the edges...

                                  Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                    sepo
                                    last edited by

                                    @dave r said:

                                    Sepo, is it possible that when you installed the plugin that you put the contents of the folder loose into the Plugins folder? The files listed in your error message should be in a folder called CURVILOFT_Dir_12 inside the Plugins folder.

                                    😳 thanks...

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                                    • Dave RD Offline
                                      Dave R
                                      last edited by

                                      Was that the problem?

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                                      • L Offline
                                        lapx
                                        last edited by

                                        I'm still not able to get the UV tool to work after lofting the curves. Maybe these questions should be posted at the UVtoolkit plugin forum 😞

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                                          redlerred7
                                          last edited by

                                          This some how happened in a random instance. I need to know how to stop it from happening again


                                          curviloftfail.png

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                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            @lapx said:

                                            I'm still not able to get the UV tool to work after lofting the curves. Maybe these questions should be posted at the UVtoolkit plugin forum 😞

                                            UV Toolkit? Not QuadFace Tools? (but yea - better post in the thread related to the plugin in question.)

                                            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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