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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      Test with simple displacement map:

      Displacement.png

      Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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      • W Offline
        Whaat
        last edited by

        cool stuff! I'm guessing that with some work, you could take a BMP texture applied to an existing mesh and use it to displace the mesh?

        Great work Thom!

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        • jeff hammondJ Offline
          jeff hammond
          last edited by

          water.jpg

          dotdotdot

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          • KrisidiousK Offline
            Krisidious
            last edited by

            you ROCK!!! 😍

            where are my old bump maps? time to go play...

            By: Kristoff Rand
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            • EarthMoverE Offline
              EarthMover
              last edited by

              @whaat said:

              cool stuff! I'm guessing that with some work, you could take a BMP texture applied to an existing mesh and use it to displace the mesh?

              Great work Thom!

              I'm looking forward to that...with perhaps a poly count adjustment. πŸ‘ πŸ‘

              3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                @whaat said:

                cool stuff! I'm guessing that with some work, you could take a BMP texture applied to an existing mesh and use it to displace the mesh?

                Possible - but you'd risk an insanely heavy mesh...

                @earthmover said:

                with perhaps a poly count adjustment.

                Well, one could sample less of the image...

                If I was better at math I could work out where the contrasts where and use more points from those areas...

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

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                • david_hD Offline
                  david_h
                  last edited by

                  I finally got it to work. I had to the LIB2 thing. It always takes me a little longer. At first i thought it was hanging on me and on some images it did, but I played around with my BMP in phoshop and got the mesh to work. Take a look: see if you can figure it out. Cool plugin. Don't know how I will use it yet but it's cool!


                  mesh1.jpg


                  mesh2.jpg


                  mesh3.jpg

                  If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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                  • Dave RD Offline
                    Dave R
                    last edited by

                    This does seem like a plugin with a lot of potential. I gave it a try with a BMP version of the following image but it didn't appear that anything was happening. It seemed to lock up my computer but it should probably be chalked up to the lousy computer I have at work.

                    http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4120/4783291846_6d66178a50.jpg

                    This height map was actually created in SU to begin with.

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                    • D Offline
                      dedmin
                      last edited by

                      Quick test in Rhino:
                      2010-10-01_200759.jpg

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                      • Dave RD Offline
                        Dave R
                        last edited by

                        Dedmin, did you try to do it with ThomThom's script in SU?

                        By the way, I think it looks nicer in SketchUp. πŸ˜‰

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                        • Dave RD Offline
                          Dave R
                          last edited by

                          1.25 million entities? 😲 That would let the magic smoke out of this computer for sure. πŸ˜†

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                          • jeff hammondJ Offline
                            jeff hammond
                            last edited by

                            with this bmp, i added a few extra pixels along the top and bottom making it an even 125x500px which brought the entities down by 75%..
                            (make sure to scale the y axis to 25% in order to fix the proportions)

                            zipped on a mac.. ignore the ds files etc..

                            untitled1.jpg

                            dotdotdot

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                            • jeff hammondJ Offline
                              jeff hammond
                              last edited by

                              yeah, it works in sketchup..
                              tt's script scales everything to a square so i made the mistake of adding more black for an overall 500x500 px (4times the recommended resolution of 250x250)..

                              it came in at a modest 1.25 million entities πŸ˜„


                              with hidden geometry turned on

                              dotdotdot

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                              • D Offline
                                dedmin
                                last edited by

                                No, there is a similar command in Rhino - Mesh Heightfield. I just used your image to test it - the mesh is quite small 33 by 8 by 1,3 mm. I doubt this can be done in SketchUP.

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                                • D Offline
                                  dedmin
                                  last edited by

                                  And Rhino maps the image as a texture

                                  Untitled-1.jpg

                                  2010-10-01_221122.jpg

                                  2010-10-01_221044.jpg

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                                  • N Offline
                                    notareal
                                    last edited by

                                    Nice one! I can imagine that one day this will be in need.

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                                    • Dave RD Offline
                                      Dave R
                                      last edited by

                                      Dedmin, that looks nice.

                                      I did make the heighfield map in SketchUp so I know that part can be done. Here's the mesh from which I made the map.

                                      http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/4791556894_9724ee2004_z.jpg

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                                      • D Offline
                                        dedmin
                                        last edited by

                                        Sure - I mean the plugin. Can that plugin make so small mesh from an image without scaling? Looks good Dave πŸ‘
                                        By the way, did You notice that Layout 3 can now paste Excel tables - very handy!

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                                        • shuraS Offline
                                          shura
                                          last edited by

                                          Jeff, that concentric wave looks great!

                                          Thomas, sorry but I won't be able to get out of Berlin atm. We are preparing to move to a new appartment with my son being only six weeks old, and Munich is 600km from here... 😒
                                          Enjoy your time there - and don't forget that not all of us germs wear leather pants and drink beer until they pass out. πŸ˜†

                                          alex

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            @shura said:

                                            and don't forget that not all of us germs wear leather pants and drink beer until they pass out. πŸ˜†

                                            What?! I've been lied to!! πŸ˜„

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

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