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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.

                            Etaoin Shrdlu

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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

                                    favicon

                                    (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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                                        • S Offline
                                          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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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            What image are you feeding it?
                                            How large?
                                            If you keep the Ruby Console open, do you get error messages?

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

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