[REQUEST] fog control

georglorenz

Hi. I am trying to write a small plugin that would provide some numerical control to the fog settings (FogDensity, FogEnd, FogStart and FogType (what is FogType btw?)), via a simple dialog box. Unfortunately I failed in the very early stages. Trying to read the current values resulted in nothing more than an empty messagebox.

Why is that? Or does such a plugin exist already?

Thank you. G

below is the code that gave me the empty messagebox

model = Sketchup.active_model
renderingoptions = model.rendering_options
value = renderingoptions["FogStart"]
UI.messagebox value

thomthom

Wouldn't that do the same as the native Fog controls?

thomthom

Btw, the API docs are lying:

Sketchup.active_model.rendering_options.each_pair do |k,v|; puts "#{k}=#{v}"; end

BackgroundColor=Color(204, 204, 201, 255) BandColor=Color( 0, 0, 0, 127) ConstructionColor=Color( 0, 0, 0, 255) DepthQueWidth=4 DisplayColorByLayer=false DisplayDims=true DisplayFog=false DisplayInstanceAxes=false DisplaySketchAxes=true DisplayText=true DisplayWatermarks=true DrawDepthQue=false DrawGround=false DrawHidden=false DrawHorizon=true DrawLineEnds=true DrawProfilesOnly=false DrawSilhouettes=true DrawUnderground=true EdgeColorMode=1 EdgeDisplayMode=1 EdgeType=0 ExtendLines=true FaceBackColor=Color(164, 178, 187, 255) FaceColorMode=0 FaceFrontColor=Color(255, 255, 255, 255) FogColor=Color(204, 204, 201, 255) FogEndDist=-1.0 FogStartDist=-1.0 FogUseBkColor=true ForegroundColor=Color( 0, 0, 0, 255) GroundColor=Color(210, 208, 185, 255) GroundTransparency=50 HideConstructionGeometry=false HighlightColor=Color( 0, 1, 255, 255) HorizonColor=Color( 0, 0, 0, 0) InactiveFade=0.25 InactiveHidden=false InstanceFade=0.5 InstanceHidden=false JitterEdges=false LineEndWidth=7 LineExtension=2 LockedColor=Color(255, 0, 0, 255) MaterialTransparency=true ModelTransparency=false RenderMode=2 SectionActiveColor=Color(255, 135, 0, 255) SectionCutWidth=3 SectionDefaultCutColor=Color( 0, 0, 0, 255) SectionInactiveColor=Color(112, 105, 97, 255) ShowViewName=true SilhouetteWidth=2 SkyColor=Color(198, 205, 208, 255) Texture=true TransparencySort=0

The ones you are looking for:
FogColor=Color(204, 204, 201, 255) FogEndDist=-1.0 FogStartDist=-1.0 FogUseBkColor=true

georglorenz

@thomthom said:

Btw, the API docs are lying:

I knew it. I knew it! No of course I didn't. Thank you much.

You are right it will do the same thing as the slider, but I am hoping for more fine-control inserting the values. The slider is really akward to control especially when you are doing elevation drawings and want to fade out the background.

Thanks again. You are the man thomthom.

G