[Plugin] Sketchup Ivy

Pierreden

When you test your point against a face nested inside groups/faces you must trasnform that point to the co-ordinates of the face's containing face.

So if you have a face nested inside a Group1 > ComponentInstance1 > Face, then you must add up the transformation of Group1 and ComponentInstance1 and apply that to the point to send to face.classify point.

Thank you, get it! But i dont understand what transformations are applied to a new group (aka what happens when you group entities)?

thomthom

When you group, or make a component, out of existing entities they get their own local co-ordinates within the new group/component. (Within the ComponentDefinition)
The group/component is inserted at the bottom front left corner of the boundingbox of the selected entities. To the grouped entities, this point becomes [0,0,0].
(Though, when you add a group via Ruby API I think the group's origin is set to the current context's origin.)

EarthMover

Here is an English Ivy leaf that works well.

leedeetee

This is probably a ridiculously stupied question but how do I get the ivy leafs to actually show up?! What am I doing wrong?!

EarthMover

CTRL click to bring up the red "+" symbols to indicate where the leaves will go and then SHIFT click to apply and create the leaves.

Instructions are in the last section of the User Interface.

nomeradona

i dont knoe why i have this

Error Loading File LiveIvy.rb
Can't insert empty component.

srx

nomeradona
go to textures folder and convert skp files to version 7. That worked for me...

robert111

i need help with ivy
why my ivy ( picture 01) is not same as this good ivy ( picture 02)

SU Ivy Wisteria.jpg

nomeradona

thanks srx. good point. iam actually using su7

rombout

@srx said:

When I start SU it begins with this:
Error Loading File LiveIvy.rb
Can't insert empty component.

This is solved with replacing version 8 leaf components with version 7 in Textures folder...
but still not working:

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method -' for nil:NilClass> C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb:241:in birth_stem'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb:234:in each' C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb:234:in birth_stem'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb:223:in birth' C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb:99:in onLButtonDown'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb:234

me to only version 5.04 worked a bit untill the shift click part
i got this in SU 6

Error; #<ArgumentError; wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)>
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;233;in `start_operation'
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;233;in `birth_stem'
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;223;in `birth'
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;98;in `onLButtonDown'
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;233

rabba89

I try to install the last two version but i still have the same problem.
This message appears when i open sketchup: Error Loading File LiveIvy.rb Can't insert empty component.
Than i'm able to use correctly the plug-in untill the last step.
If i hold click+shift nothing happens. It the same when i only click (generate ivy)

Can you help me?
thanks a lot. Very good work, great idea

sadyo

Shift+Click still not work on My SketchupIvy.0.6.3.beta
is there something i should do beside waiting for the next release?

nomeradona

@rabba89 said:

I try to install the last two version but i still have the same problem.
This message appears when i open sketchup: Error Loading File LiveIvy.rb Can't insert empty component.
Than i'm able to use correctly the plug-in untill the last step.
If i hold click+shift nothing happens. It the same when i only click (generate ivy)

Can you help me?
thanks a lot. Very good work, great idea

rabba the components inside the texture pluggin two of them were done in sketchup 8. download the su8 free and resaved the file to su7 or su 6 depends on what version you are using,

majid

just to say a thousand thanx to you Pierre

jamalito

hi guyz
how is it do this plugin ?
I downloaded it but can not use it

tomot

There are a number of hiccups in each new Ruby that need to be sorted out. I'm sure that will happen. With many thanks to Pierreden for taking on this task.

I have only 2 plugins currently installed, Vray demo, and Ivy under SU8. I also resaved the 3 ivyleaf_x.skp file to my SU8 version.

v.0.5.4 : only produces one statement in the Ruby Console after it installs the Ivy leaves.

quietly_force_sync_mats_cb just called

but otherwise works flawlessly.

v.0.6.2.beta : after 2 clicks, the following is noted in the Ruby Console.

(eval);1; warning; Float 0.05 out of range
Error; #<TypeError; nil can't be coerced into Fixnum>
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_branch.rb;20;in `-'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_branch.rb;20;in `initialize'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_branch.rb;49;in `new'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_branch.rb;49;in `grow_stem'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_branch.rb;38;in `each'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_branch.rb;38;in `grow_stem'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;203;in `grow_stem'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;202;in `each'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;202;in `grow_stem'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;201;in `times'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;201;in `grow_stem'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;96;in `onLButtonDown'

crashed!

v.0.6.3.beta : after 2 clicks, the following is noted in the Ruby Console.

(eval);1; warning; Float 0.05 out of range
Error; #<TypeError; nil can't be coerced into Fixnum>
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_branch.rb;20;in `-'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_branch.rb;20;in `initialize'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_branch.rb;49;in `new'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_branch.rb;49;in `grow_stem'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_branch.rb;38;in `each'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_branch.rb;38;in `grow_stem'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;204;in `grow_stem'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;203;in `each'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;203;in `grow_stem'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;202;in `times'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;202;in `grow_stem'
C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins/LiveIvy/LiveIvy_tool.rb;90;in `onLButtonUp'

crashed!

cheers

rodrigonotor

@sadyo said:

Shift+Click still not work on My SketchupIvy.0.6.3.beta

Same problem and the Ivy not grow. I use the same parameters of the 0.5.4 version and not achive the same results.

SU ver. 8.0.3117

TIG

The 'LiveIvy' error is because a reference that is set to 'nil' and NOT a 'float' [number] so it can't use '-' on it... See line #20...

driven

@tig said:

The 'LiveIvy' error is because a reference that is set to 'nil' and NOT a 'float' [number] so it can't use '-' on it... See line #20...

hi TIG,

if it actually has that error, why would it work on some setups and not others? just curious...

I can get it to run on the mac if I leave the startup ruby in the folder and load after startup, but only one of the leaves are transparent and in some image format that un-editable on my mac...

john

tomot

@tig said:

The 'LiveIvy' error is because a reference that is set to 'nil' and NOT a 'float' [number] so it can't use '-' on it... See line #20...

looks like just a simple typing mistake. I found out quickly its best to leave to Ruby console open then run your script to see what errors occur.

driven: Its very difficult to have one ruby satisfy the quirks of 2 OS's. If I had bothered to make my simple rubies work for 2 OS's I would not be enjoying my retirement now.