[Plugin] Export 2d with Alpha

Rich O Brien

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

I've got conflict somewhere?

thomthom

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.

sank64

Takk for det!

mooshonov

Hey thom and thanks for this great plugin.

I need to produce some 2d transparency alpha maps. Installed TT_lib2 folder along side tt_lib and tt_export.rb into the plugins directory.

Don't have the dialoug which you mark "Transparency" while exporting png from file>export>2d graphic.

many thanks

thomthom

@mooshonov said:

Don't have the dialoug which you mark "Transparency" while exporting png from file>export>2d graphic.

See the description again in the first post. The menu is not located under File, it is "View -> Export 2d".

Rich O Brien

Thom,

Ever notice some funny screen cropping using this?

thomthom

Cropping? It exports the incorrect area?

Rich O Brien

Exactly, if I play with resolution size at times it'll crop away some of the image. But I'm keeping the the same ratios.

thomthom

Can you post a reproducible example?

JClements

Rich, I'm not sure if I understand the issue. Would the following help?

1- Open SU.

2- Use the Film&Stage Plugin, create a camera, edit the Aspect Ratio of the camera, and adjust the window according so there aren't any gray bars.

3- Now close and reopen SU. Open your model. Pan and tweek your model within the confines of the window. Now export using the width value in pixels of the value assigned to the camera of Film&Stage in Step 2.

John