[Plugin] Export 2d with Alpha

thomthom

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

TIG

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...

Frederik

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

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

Gaieus

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?

)

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

thomthom

Yea - we need that smiley.

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

Gaieus

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?

thomthom

@gaieus said:

Maybe a solution to temporarily disable ground and sky?

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

Rich O Brien

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?

thomthom

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

Rich O Brien

Just a warehouse model for testing before you know what

thomthom

Gimme model

Rich O Brien

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

thomthom

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

Exactly what do you do?

Rich O Brien

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

thomthom

Rich O Brien

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

I've got conflict somewhere?

thomthom

@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?

honoluludesktop

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?

thomthom

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.

honoluludesktop

Thanks, I see that the api notes that the method applies to v6.0+. How can that be correct?