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    • B Offline
      Ben Ritter
      last edited by

      TIG, awesome and looking forward to trying it out. ☀

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      • simon le bonS Offline
        simon le bon
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        Dear Tig,
        Even if I comment rarely, I have a great respect for your production and your generosity.
        Each tool you make, I feel how was we able to do without it.
        This is presently one more time the case.

        Thank yu so much,

        simon.

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        • shuraS Offline
          shura
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          This is just overwhelming. I was wanting this feature for so long... thank you TIG for making this happen!

          As I understand the prcedure, the way to trace a silhouette is to make an inverted transparency for it. With Flatten and Cleanup I get a nice result. Sadly I did'nt get Simplify Contours to work, maybe wrong angle?

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          jump.jpgjumpclose.jpg

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          • Dave RD Offline
            Dave R
            last edited by

            Very cool, TIG. Thank you.


            http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5090/5267654380_8f51fcd496.jpg

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            • pilouP Offline
              pilou
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              Astonished package! 👍 😲 😎

              Frenchy Pilou
              Is beautiful that please without concept!
              My Little site :)

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              • mitcorbM Offline
                mitcorb
                last edited by

                Out of the Blue!
                Thank you!

                I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                • srxS Offline
                  srx
                  last edited by

                  That is great for png trees shadows. Thank you.

                  www.saurus.rs

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    This is great! It's been asked for for such a long time.
                    How about an option to simply the edges - make the resulting silhouette simpler?

                    You can use the Douglas-Peucker algorithm port I used in Edge Tools:
                    http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=24593#p210736

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

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      @thomthom said:

                      This is great! It's been asked for for such a long time.
                      How about an option to simply the edges - make the resulting silhouette simpler?
                      You can use the Douglas-Peucker algorithm port I used in Edge Tools:
                      http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=24593#p210736

                      Thanks for the tip... At the moment it slavishly follows every pixel!
                      This is only v1.0 so I'm sure there are lots of improvements possible.
                      My use of using one function specific small Java .jar executables reading 'ini' files to pass arguments etc seems to work better than I expected... So far in alphabetical order, there's...
                      Bumpmapper.jar and BumpmapperInverted.jar to make gray-scale bumpmap pngs from imagefiles.
                      EdgeDetector.jar that finds a given png's edges and makes the 'edged' version and a .dat file = 01's used by SUp.
                      Gifxtractor.jar that makes pngs of all frames in a given animated gif file.
                      Thumbnailer.jar that makes a 64x64 thumbnail of an image.
                      ThumbnailerRGB.jar that makes a 64x64 thumbnail of a color from its RGB values.
                      UnZipDirectory.jar that uncompresses zip files OR skm files.
                      ZipDirectory.jar that compresses zip files OR skm files in a given folder.
                      Any ideas for other similar 'jar' tools always welcomed - I only taught myself Java in the last week or two, specifically to do image manipulation parallel to Ruby, but I'm sure there are other possible uses too... 🤓

                      TIG

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        You've made a great deal of tools there. Too bad my apartment is such a mess still - don't get much time to look at all these new goodies.

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

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                        • shuraS Offline
                          shura
                          last edited by

                          With that .jar business I resign right away. just want to put another +1 here: simplifying edges? Oh yes please! (drooling)

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                          • TIGT Offline
                            TIG Moderator
                            last edited by

                            I had dallied with some outline simplification ideas... but brought v1.0 to market without that functionality as my brain hurt.
                            I'll think about it again - e.g. even a simple square hole 32x32 pixels currently has 128 edges when 4 would do!!
                            A square hole on the diagonal has 256 edges when 4 would do!!!
                            I'm sure I can clone some ideas from others' code 😉 😄

                            TIG

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                            • thomthomT Offline
                              thomthom
                              last edited by

                              @tig said:

                              I'll think about it again - e.g. even a simple square hole 32x32 pixels currently has 128 edges when 4 would do!!
                              A square hole on the diagonal has 256 edges when 4 would do!!!
                              I'm sure I can clone some ideas from others' code 😉 😄

                              With the simplification algorithm I linked to, then those 128 edges should become 4. You feed it a set of points that form a curve (for separate each curve into sets and you get a simplified set.

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

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                              • CadFatherC Offline
                                CadFather
                                last edited by

                                speechlessly amazing!

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                                • TIGT Offline
                                  TIG Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  Here's v1.1 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=294815#p294815
                                  It's got an 'outline simplifier' option added.
                                  This is also available a separate tool to simplify the outlines of existing ImageTrimmed components.
                                  See the notes for details...
                                  [Thanks to ThomThom and Douglas-Peucker fro the simplification algorithm ideas...]

                                  TIG

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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
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                                    @cadfather said:

                                    not sure what happened but when run, the script opened edge 'detector.jar' file and there it stayed..
                                    it opened with winrar so will check this out

                                    You need to have Java enabled on you computer - it usually is...
                                    Did you extract most files into SKMtools subfolder as the instructions...
                                    The script doesn't open 'EdgeDector.jar' - rather it should 'execute' it as it's a very small app that does just one thing ?
                                    What OS system are you using ? XP ??
                                    What version of IE do you have ?
                                    What version of SUp ? I guess NOT 9.1 😒

                                    TIG

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                                    • CadFatherC Offline
                                      CadFather
                                      last edited by

                                      not sure what happened but when run, the script opened edge 'detector.jar' file and there it stayed..
                                      it opened with winrar so will check this out

                                      EDIT: yes if winrar (i guess any other zipping app as well) is set to open jar files too - trimmer will run winrar -- uncheking the file association makes trimmer work fine

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                                      • CadFatherC Offline
                                        CadFather
                                        last edited by

                                        well TIG, with the likes of you, it feels like SU 10.2! 😆

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                                        • T Offline
                                          tomasz
                                          last edited by

                                          Thanks for the interesting plugin and the inspiration TIG!

                                          @tig said:

                                          I only taught myself Java in the last week or two

                                          Two weeks is not that much. I will give it a try!

                                          Author of [Thea Render for SketchUp](http://www.thearender.com/sketchup)

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                                          • TIGT Offline
                                            TIG Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            CADfather

                                            I have looked at your '.jar' issue... I can reproduce it! 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 settings and ensure '.jar' is NOT one of its file-types for opening...

                                            TIG

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