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    [Plugin] Export 2d with Alpha

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    • FrederikF
      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
        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
          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
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          • GaieusG
            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
              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
                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?

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

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                • thomthomT
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

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

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

                      Gimme model

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

                        It was actually one of Pete's submissions.

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                        (forums.sketchucation.com)

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

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                        • thomthomT
                          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

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                          • Rich O BrienR
                            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
                              thomthom
                              last edited by

                              Export2d.png

                              ❓

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

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

                                I've got conflict somewhere?

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                                • thomthomT
                                  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
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                                  • honoluludesktopH
                                    honoluludesktop
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                                    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
                                      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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                                      • honoluludesktopH
                                        honoluludesktop
                                        last edited by

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

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                                        • thomthomT
                                          thomthom
                                          last edited by

                                          @honoluludesktop said:

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

                                          The method is old, but the transparency argument is new.

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

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                                          • D
                                            donnasanta
                                            last edited by

                                            Thank you Thom Thom!
                                            New to SketchUp 8 (1) month. Had the 'no transparency in 2D export" problem. Found SketchUcation β˜€ , found your plug in πŸ˜„ , fixed my problem.

                                            Thank you very much.

                                            -Donna

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