[Plugin][Code]SKMtools,Material/ImageTools

TIG

@bob james said:

Really neat effects, TIG, but I've loaded the SKM files into the plugins folder and I don't get any toolbar.

Hi!
I have a similar problem arose.
I made it for myself decided thus
file SKMtools_loader.rb replaced path ="SKMtools" он
path = File.dirname(FILE) + "/SKMtools"

Thanks for the advice BUT
path="SKMtools" should work as load "SKMtools/xxx.rb" [when path and the filename are 'added together'] will start in any of the $LOAD_PATH locations which will include ../Plugins/ where SKMtools_loader.rb resides and then SKMtools is that directory up and it looks for the 'file' - I use it all the time to load scripts from subfolders without problem ?
Why do you think it isn't working for just some users ??
It works fine for me...

TIG

@tig said:

@sahi said:

@bob james said:

Really neat effects, TIG, but I've loaded the SKM files into the plugins folder and I don't get any toolbar.

Hi!
I have a similar problem arose.
I made it for myself decided thus
file SKMtools_loader.rb replaced path ="SKMtools" он
path = File.dirname(FILE) + "/SKMtools"

Thanks for the advice BUT...........
path="SKMtools" should work as load "SKMtools/xxx.rb" [when path and the filename are 'added together'] will start in any of the $LOAD_PATH locations which will include ../Plugins/ where SKMtools_loader.rb resides and then SKMtools is that directory up and it looks for the 'file' - I use it all the time to load scripts from subfolders without problem ?
Your example will work - although I'd use path=File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),"SKMtools") BUT the other method will work anyway
Why do you think it isn't working for just some users ??
It works fine for me...

sahi

@tig said:

Why do you think it isn't working for just some users ??
It works fine for me...

I have it too did not work, until I made changes after that he earned.

I have a folder "Plugins" is a standard set of plug-ins, not something extra.

Box

I've tried it again on a different computer and same result. Nothing.

Just to be sure, I downloaded the .zip, double click, select extract all, browse to Plugin folder, extract all. Should I be doing anything else, or perhaps there is another file from one of your other tools that I am missing.

Other thoughts would be,

I may have a conflicting plugin

or

I have sketchup installed in the default location, ie: in program files.

I just installed your other plugin, Manifold in exactly the same way and it works perfectly.

TIG

@sahi said:

@tig said:

Why do you think it isn't working for just some users ??
It works fine for me...

I have it too did not work, until I made changes after that he earned.

I have a folder "Plugins" is a standard set of plug-ins, not something extra.

Sahi / Box

I think I have the cause...
If there's an obscure script [that I don't know of] that loads before SKMtools_loader.rb and it has code outside of its methods that is permanently changing the current directory [ill-advisedly] then my method will fail when using ' Dir' [but not ' load']. Sahi's method [or something like it] will work as it uses an 'absolute' and not 'relative' path. To check what the current directory is after startup type Dir.pwd in the Ruby Console - it should return the ../Plugins/ folder where SKMtools_loader.rb resides - if not then we know something is changing the pwd.

There's now an updated SKMtools_loader.rb file - please replace the one in the ../Plugins/ folder with this one, and retry. I have included this file in an update of the zipped set in the first post too...
NOTE: more recent versions do NOT need/use SKMtools_loader.rb.
Only install the files from the RBZ set...

TIG

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677 Here is an updated version with the 'loader' script adjusted to avoid earlier loading scripts messing up the 'dir/load' paths...

Box

Perfect Tig, thanks, works now.

TIG

Here's an update http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677
It includes new methods:-

Material.save_texture_and_thumbnail(folder)

saves Material's texture [if any] and its thumbnail [png] into a subfolder named after the material in 'folder' - returns that subfolder path or nil.

SKM.save_texture_and_thumbnail(path_skm, folder)

saves SKM's texture [if any] and its thumbnail [png] to a subfolder named after the SKM in 'folder' - returns taht subfolder path or nil

SKM.extract(path_skm, 'folder')

extracts all of the SKM's data into a 'hash': if the optional 'folder' is given the files from the SKM are extracted into a subfolder named after the SKM in 'folder'. All of the available SKM data is accessible from the 'hash', if 'folder' is given then the paths to the texture/thumbnail etc are accessible...

ImageAnimator

new menu items 'Make_Unique' and 'Clone'.

See individual tools threads for more details...

TIG

Here's another update http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677
It contains a new tool ' gifxtractor' which lets you quickly extract PNG files for each frame in a given animated GIF file...

ken

TIG

It appears that the version, ....3a.zip is missing two images for the last two menu items, make unique and clone.

Thanks for all of your work.

Ken

TIG

Ken, the two new ' ImageAnimator' tools ' Make_Unique' and ' Clone' should only have appeared in the View > ImageAnimator sub-menu as they are not that often used - the toolbar buttons were a result of a typo in my code
This is the updated version ..13b...http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677

xrok1

WOW!
good work

erikB

tig,
fantastic ruby !
Only I can't seem to find the "make unique button"
In stead I see two times : set folder from selected images to Nil ?

greetings,

erikB

TIG

erikB

Another typo in my code the latest [corrected] version is here
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677
This version also includes 'ImageTrimmer' - a tool to trim around transparent areas in a .png Image and make a new Component - useful to trim around 'cardboard' cutout people from photos etc... see here for more details http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=294815#p294815

TIG

Here's an update http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677
The 'ImageTrimmer' now has an option to simplify the outline and a new separate tool to do this post processing too.

TIG

IMPORTANT NOTICE!

There has been a lone report of these tools not working - with a '.jar' file 'opening' rather than 'running'!
Many of these tools use small Java '.jar' executable files that do specific tasks like zip/unzip and image manipulation.

I have found that I can reproduce this weirdness IF I let a 'zip/unzip' application like AlZip or WinRar 'poach' the '.jar' file-type as one that it will open. If so then when Ruby tries to 'open' a '.jar' file instead of it 'executing' in Java [like it should], it 'opens' in the decompression application...

The solution = look at your WinRar etc settings and ensure '.jar' is NOT one of its file-types for opening...

TIG

Here's an update http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677
A stupid typo preventing ImageTrimmer working properly on MAC is now corrected.

TIG

Here's an update http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677
The time-out for ImageTrimmer file creation extended to 60secs to cater for larger files being slow to complete...

TIG

Here's an update http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677
Some scripts have been recast to address glitches with MAC file paths.
Everyone should update to these new versions...

TIG

Here's another update http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677
ImageTrimmer time-out for larger .dat files extended, EdgeDetector.jar improved...