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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
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        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
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              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
                                  last edited by

                                  @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
                                      last edited by

                                      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

                                          MMMmmmm, a plugin that makes chocolate bars. I'm hungry now!

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            πŸ˜„

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

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