[Plugin] Export 2d with Alpha

thomthom

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.
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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?

thomthom

@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.

donnasanta

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

Thank you very much.

-Donna

thomthom

JGA

Brilliant, works a treat. Thank-you

bupaje

Thank you for this. Opens up a lot of possibilities.

bupaje

I have a suggestion for this great plugin (if still in development).

Would it be possible to export multiple layers as a series of png's? I see that ImageReady CS2 has an option to import a series of images to layers, which can then be saved out as a psd file. This would make SketchUp great for blocking in some layers -say foreground/midground/background elements and individual objects, then opening in Photoshop to do paintovers with the objects seperated by layer.