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    [Plugin] Bitmap To Mesh

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      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
        david_h
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        @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
          jeff hammond
          last edited by

          David,
          Use the scale tool to compress it vertically.

          dotdotdot

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          • david_hD
            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
              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
                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
                  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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                    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
                      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
                        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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                          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
                              Dave R
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                              Shaun, that almost looks like a lithophane. Cool.

                              Etaoin Shrdlu

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                              (THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE)

                              G28 X0.0 Y0.0 Z0.0

                              M30

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                                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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                                  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
                                    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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                                      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:

                                      http://www.google.com/search?hl=es&q=+site:gamedev.net+normal+map+algorithm&sa=X&ei=zwXHTLXUK4WO4Aa2yNXtDw&ved=0CBsQrQIwAA

                                      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
                                        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
                                          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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                                            Scott M
                                            last edited by

                                            Just downloaded the plugin an gave it a try.I folowed the promp but nothing is showing up it is saying generating mesh but continues to thnink as if unresponsive.Is my system just too slow or am I doing something wrong. Could someone outline the process.The images you guys posted look great.I allso operate a cnc and would lke very much to use this plugin.

                                            https://www.youtube.com/user/ecabinetstips

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