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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      I get Transparency with Sky on. But not with Ground.

      ...Gaieus... do you have the Ground on?

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

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
        last edited by

        Correction: Sky do appear when exporting. I just always tried with a view looking down so no sky was visible.

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

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        • TIGT Offline
          TIG Moderator
          last edited by

          @thomthom said:

          I get Transparency with Sky on. But not with Ground.

          ...Gaieus... do you have the Ground on?

          I find that both sky and ground obscure my png's background transparency ?
          I need to have sky and ground both off to have a fully transparent background in the png, BUT even then shadows on the ground-pane will show up floating is space so you need to have that option off too...

          TIG

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          • FrederikF Offline
            Frederik
            last edited by

            Don't know why I haven't seen this gem before today... 😳

            Awesome, Thomas...!
            Thank you SO much...!!

            Cheers
            Kim Frederik

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            • GaieusG Offline
              Gaieus
              last edited by

              Hi Thom and TIG; you are right, when I turn ground and sky off, I can export with transparency.

              And now I am banging my head to the wall (where is that smiley?
              http://twilightrender.com/phpBB3/images/smilies/wall.gif
              )

              This is exactly the way you need to set your style to be able to export your png with transparency!

              Gai...

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                Yea - we need that smiley.

                This has been one for my Duh! list as well.

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

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                • GaieusG Offline
                  Gaieus
                  last edited by

                  Thanks anyway (and again) for the plug however. I do not know if there is a solution in ruby but if not, I guess you have already updated the info on the first page.

                  Maybe a solution to temporarily disable ground and sky?

                  Gai...

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    @gaieus said:

                    Maybe a solution to temporarily disable ground and sky?

                    Maybe the user want either one on/off...

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

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                    • Rich O BrienR Offline
                      Rich O Brien Moderator
                      last edited by

                      Thom,

                      This is exporting for me? Ground/Sky off, BG is White and adding .png to file name when exporting but no joy! I know i've missed something here but re-reading the thread i can't pin it down?

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        Can you post this joyless model? And/or screenshot?

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

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                        • Rich O BrienR Offline
                          Rich O Brien Moderator
                          last edited by

                          test.png

                          Just a warehouse model for testing before you know what πŸ˜‰

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            Gimme model

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                            • Rich O BrienR Offline
                              Rich O Brien Moderator
                              last edited by

                              It was actually one of Pete's submissions.

                              http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=198656#p198656

                              But later I'll provide the model itself in case there's a difference

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                              • thomthomT Offline
                                thomthom
                                last edited by

                                I had no problems getting the transparency. I just loaded the model and exported.

                                Exactly what do you do?


                                test.png

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

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                                • Rich O BrienR Offline
                                  Rich O Brien Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  Haven't the foggiest? It's meant to run from plugins menu, right?

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                                  • thomthomT Offline
                                    thomthom
                                    last edited by

                                    Export2d.png

                                    ❓

                                    Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                    • Rich O BrienR Offline
                                      Rich O Brien Moderator
                                      last edited by

                                      Not there, it's Plugins > Thomthom's Plugins > Export 2D.

                                      I've got conflict somewhere?

                                      Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        thomthom
                                        last edited by

                                        @unknownuser said:

                                        Not there, it's Plugins > Thomthom's Plugins > Export 2D.

                                        I've got conflict somewhere?

                                        That's the correct menu item - it's just that you got ThomThom's menu installed which moves all my menu items to that position.

                                        But it should not affect the result. Can you send me a quick video recording of what you do when you try to export with transparency?

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

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                                        • honoluludesktopH Offline
                                          honoluludesktop
                                          last edited by

                                          thomthom,

                                          @thomthom said:

                                          @pixero said:

                                          Was transparency there all along but the built in exporter couldn't handle it?

                                          Added with the SU8 API.
                                          ...............

                                          Is the api documentation wrong? If not color.alpha= What method did you use?
                                          Temp00.png

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            view.html.write_image
                                            http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/view.html#write_image

                                            As of SU8, if you use the hash variant for the arguments you can specify transparency.

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

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