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    • soloS Offline
      solo
      last edited by

      @unknownuser said:

      So I notice these wonderful meshes created. How is one controlling the height of the extrusion?

      Color, the darker the black and brighter the white will produce the greatest crests and troughs.

      http://www.solos-art.com

      If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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      • G Offline
        Ghalko
        last edited by

        After letting a 384x384 (meters) heightmap simmer:
        Yey!

        Arrrggghhh! Why won't it make a face!!! Stupid, no good piece of... Oh look! The line went to the wrong point. Whew... moving on. (My fights with sketchup.)

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        • david_hD Offline
          david_h
          last edited by

          @solo said:

          Color, the darker the black and brighter the white will produce the greatest crests and troughs.

          I get that easy enough. its all based on contrast. . .so One must go into PhoShop and manipulate and lessen those contrasts before putting it into the plugin? Because when I down loaded the scrolly motif lintel thing, I got all kinds of mess. I just couldn't get my model to look like others were doing. . .

          I'll keep playing with it.

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

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          • jeff hammondJ Offline
            jeff hammond
            last edited by

            David,
            Use the scale tool to compress it vertically.

            dotdotdot

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            • david_hD Offline
              david_h
              last edited by

              oh well. . . there's one for the duh thread.

              Thx 😳

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

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                With version 0.2.0 you specify the height your self - either by using the cursor or entering a length in the VCB.

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

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                • spenceS Offline
                  spence
                  last edited by

                  thomthom, this is very cool. I can hardly believe you got this to work. I use this in Eon-Software's Vue and love it, now that it can be done on SU is incredible. VERY NICELY DONE!

                  Spence

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                  • david_hD Offline
                    david_h
                    last edited by

                    Pretty cool little Plugin. thanks for the update. . .. makes it much easier for us idiots. πŸ’š


                    penny 1.jpg


                    penny2.jpg

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

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                    • T Offline
                      thohan
                      last edited by

                      Thank you for this great plugin. πŸ˜„
                      I did a quick test with it on a picture of a friend of mine with minimal pre-processing (just making the background black) and placed it on a norwegian coin.
                      I think with some more effort, one can achieve much better results.

                      http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/8434/smalltest.png

                      It do however generate a mesh that is very big. I suppose merging the squares (?) which lie next to each other in the same height, would make it lighter?

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                      • jamalitoJ Offline
                        jamalito
                        last edited by

                        wow wow wow
                        where have you been ? man
                        I looking for such as plug-in
                        thank you so so much thomthom
                        you helped me
                        because I have a lot pictures I want to do it

                        Albert Einstein:
                        ((I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.))

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          @thohan said:

                          It do however generate a mesh that is very big. I suppose merging the squares (?) which lie next to each other in the same height, would make it lighter?

                          Yea, it produces a very dense mesh - You can use my Cleanup script to remove edges between coplanar faces.

                          Nice coin by the way. πŸ˜„

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

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                          • M Offline
                            marcomartim
                            last edited by

                            This plugin is great!

                            I use Sketchup with Phlatscript plugin to generate code G (2.5 D) to use on my CNC Router, lack a 3D plugin for editing G code on Sketchup.

                            For 3D and 4D, still use the Artcam,; Now with this plugin can create 3D models from photos, right in Sketchup.

                            Thank you.

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                              Christmended
                              last edited by

                              Thanks for the awesome plugin!

                              Here is a test result I did.


                              Heads screenshot.jpg

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                              • Dave RD Offline
                                Dave R
                                last edited by

                                Shaun, that almost looks like a lithophane. Cool.

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                                • H Offline
                                  Heven7_floor
                                  last edited by

                                  Great Plug-in, thank your gift to make SU plugin to display the thing happen πŸ‘ πŸ‘ πŸ‘

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                                  • P Offline
                                    pichuneke
                                    last edited by

                                    The plugin works with bump mapping. I have no idea about what I am saying, but could it work with normal and displacement maps?

                                    I have no idea about programming, except an unfinished Interactive Fiction game 5 years ago in the "popular" inform 6 language 😲 πŸ˜† πŸ˜†

                                    Forgive my spanglish...

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      @pichuneke said:

                                      I have no idea about what I am saying, but could it work with normal and displacement maps?

                                      Displacement maps are the same as bump maps - grayscale heightmaps. As for normal maps, I don't really know how they work...

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

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                                      • P Offline
                                        pichuneke
                                        last edited by

                                        @thomthom said:

                                        @pichuneke said:

                                        I have no idea about what I am saying, but could it work with normal and displacement maps?

                                        Displacement maps are the same as bump maps - grayscale heightmaps. As for normal maps, I don't really know how they work...

                                        I have found a lot about normal maps here:

                                        Google Search

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                                        (www.google.com)

                                        but it's written in chinese, or C++ ... πŸ˜† I don't know if it may interest you, I was spending my time a bit (as I don't understand a single word πŸ˜„ )

                                        Forgive my spanglish...

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                                        • arquitectomaracuchoA Offline
                                          arquitectomaracucho
                                          last edited by

                                          excuse my English, Greetings πŸ‘Š
                                          Thomtom greetings, very good tool for many functions πŸ‘ . be possible to add option mesh, giving a percentage between simple and complex mesh, thanks πŸ‘

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            @arquitectomaracucho said:

                                            be possible to add option mesh, giving a percentage between simple and complex mesh, thanks πŸ‘

                                            That would be simply resizing the bitmap down - which is much more efficient to do in your favourite image editor than via a Ruby plugin.

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

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