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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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        thohan
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        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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                    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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                          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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                                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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                                    Scott M
                                    last edited by

                                    @thomthom said:

                                    What image are you feeding it?
                                    How large?
                                    If you keep the Ruby Console open, do you get error messages?
                                    I am using a jepg emage that I exported as a bmp. emage. It is 395x640px.I set the width at 6 5/8" and typed in the depth at 1/8". The ruby console showes Bitmap to mesh.
                                    processing data took:4.6175s
                                    After a few min. console goes blank with a white screen and the curser turns to a hour glass. This is the way it stays.

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

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      For how long?
                                      Can you post the image you're using?

                                      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

                                        @thomthom said:

                                        For how long?
                                        Can you post the image you're using?
                                        Sorry it took so long to reply.It will stay that way as long as sketchup is up. I let it run for about 1 hour. I will attach the image.

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

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                                        • F Offline
                                          Fletch
                                          last edited by

                                          😲 Impressive plugin ThomThom! Wow!
                                          (I obviously need a better displacement map for this tile now.) πŸ˜†


                                          Hightmap4SU-test1.jpg

                                          Fletch
                                          Twilight Render Cross-platform Plugin for SketchUp on PC or Mac

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                                            Fletch
                                            last edited by

                                            Further testing... just want to re-iterate what a great plugin you have here.

                                            http://twilightrender.com/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=4983

                                            Fletch
                                            Twilight Render Cross-platform Plugin for SketchUp on PC or Mac

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