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    • david_hD Offline
      david_h
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      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
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              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
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                                @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
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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  @unknownuser said:

                                  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˜„

                                  I'll update it with a tool for placing the mesh in the model, with correction aspect ratio and let you define a height - basically let you draw a bounding box.
                                  Maybe even with an option to sample less pixels.

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

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                                  • thomthomT Offline
                                    thomthom
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                                    @thomthom said:

                                    Maybe even with an option to sample less pixels.

                                    Or... Maybe interpolate pixels... Though - the same could be done by the user by just scaling down the image...

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

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                                    • Dave RD Offline
                                      Dave R
                                      last edited by

                                      Dedmin, thanks. Since I haven't been able to do it yet, I don't know but I fully expect I'd have to scale the mesh to the right size. Looks like Jeff managed it, though.

                                      As to the excel tables into LO, yes. I did see that. You can't do anything about formatting once it is in, though. Oh well, maybe in LO4.

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                                      • shuraS Offline
                                        shura
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                                        just used an alpha map and deleted the lower part of the mesh, then flattened it. not talking about quality, but at least it looks like some sort of image tracing...

                                        zz.jpg

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                                        • ken28875K Offline
                                          ken28875
                                          last edited by

                                          Wow! 😲 😲

                                          You keep on amazing me with your plugins, Thomas! You're the man.

                                          Thank you very much,

                                          _KN

                                          Follow Your Dreams.

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                                          • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                            Chris Fullmer
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                                            @thomthom said:

                                            Test with simple displacement map:

                                            Displacement.png

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