[Plugin] Sketchup Ivy

bac9-flcl

First of all, awesome work there! Really nice plugin, easy and fun to use.

However I've wanted to ask: is it possible to improve leafs placement anyhow?

At the moment they only look relatively good on ivy grown at a vertical surface because the foliage are always facing downwards. And the problem is not that the default direction is downwards, I can edit leaf components to alter it.

As you can see here, the problem is that growing direction isn't taken into account, so even when ivy is growing over the horizontal surface, leafs are still placed downwards, right into the surface. Still, I see that leaf components aren't facing to the same horizontal angle, and that means that you have some kind of direction check taken into account for leaf placement - just not for the vertical angle.

So, the question is: can you implement vertical direction dependence in addition to existing horizontal one, so that foliage will be placed correctly relatively to branch direction and base surface orientation (floors, ceilings and other cases)?

Also I don't recall any problems in ivy models made with original generator you've mentioned in the first post, so maybe it's possible to use already written advanced foliage placement code from it.

Upd: Oh wait, why scrappy24 render features perfectly proper foliage orientation on the floor?

Onslaught

Awesome plugin. One thing though is that I can't adjust any of the Parameters, any idea what the problem is?

EarthMover

Have any of you checked out the Ivy texture pack that is on the Lutz Ivy generator page? - http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/~luft/ivy_generator/ There are some great Ivy textures there with bump and spec maps, even a few premade maxwell ivy textures that could be used to replace the ones that come with Sketchup Ivy.

kalu

Hi to all:

I try the IVY plugin is awesome what I see but I don't understand what are the steps to make it grow. Can someone place here the shortcut keys to make it work and grow and show leaves and menu for some reason I cant see the menu I have sketchup pro 8 and Windows 7 64.

Thanks.

lapx

Hello all,

Installed yesterday and was working now i cant get leaves to grow with final shift click

vidy

@kalu said:

Hi to all:

I try the IVY plugin is awesome what I see but I don't understand what are the steps to make it grow. Can someone place here the shortcut keys to make it work and grow and show leaves and menu for some reason I cant see the menu I have sketchup pro 8 and Windows 7 64.

Thanks.

try this kalu:

ALT-Click : Make the ivy grow towards the mouse position (Mac: Cmd)
Mouse-Click : Grow Ivy stem
CTRL-Click : Grow Ivy leafs (Mac: Alt)
SHIFT-Click : Finish Ivy
Keyboard 'i' : Start over

vidy

@lapx said:

Hello all,

Installed yesterday and was working now i cant get leaves to grow with final shift click

maybe you can check on page 17 for this issue..
regards,

lapx

Vidy , yes! Thank you! Change the default values of the Spread from "0" to "1" and it works like a charm.

lapx

Spoke to soon. Was working fine. Now it's back to its old bad behavoir Shift click to make leafs is where I end up with a problem. It appears to make several duplicate copies of just 1 ivy branch and thats it. Leaves are not drawn. What can be going wrong? Using SU 804811.

Thanks,

gianpier1

HI Boys.

I have a problem. I can´t never see the leafs!!!!!

Help me please!

gianpier1

Hello guys again!!!

I can not see how the leaves are drawn?
I don´t understand it!!!
Thanks

rombout

@gianpier1 said:

Hello guys again!!!

I can not see how the leaves are drawn?
I don´t understand it!!!
Thanks

all depends on which version of SU you use...
try searching this forum post for updates and working version! for me a custom revised version 6.05 something does the job... try to look for it!

gianpier1

i´m using ivy 0.6.3 to SU 8.0. but i didn´t find ivy 0.6.5. Neve i can´t see the leafs man
not understand because the leaves do not work when I press SHIFT, the vines are also up.
Thanks man

lapx

For me its sometime works and sometimes not. Cant put my finger on it. Mostly stops working when using shift click. If it means anything, I can see the google and standard tool bar ghosting when I hit shift click using ivy 0.6.3

lapx

Any developement? This is such a wonderful program to let go. Does anyone have it working consistently in sketchup 8?
Shift click seams to be the problem. Its not making the leaves.

lapx

Anyone else have consistent success with the plugin? Might it be in conflict with other scripts?
Would love to use it on this current project...
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=333&t=38590

vidy

@lapx said:

Any developement? This is such a wonderful program to let go. Does anyone have it working consistently in sketchup 8?
Shift click seams to be the problem. Its not making the leaves.

still working at mine, i know i dont make it so dense.. but still work...

here is the screen shot

penniner

cool !

lapx

Its working now. If I can just find out why its not working in some cases. The only thing done differently that I can think of is shutting down the computer and reactitvating sketchup_ivy.

niks

hi.. i've used both Ivy version 0.6 and .5, its working if im on a new scene but once i usethe plugin on my saved sketchup model it does not work. im using sketchup v.8 pro,windows....here's the result of the plugin when i apply it to my saved file. when i shift-click, it only add a single black vine line.. i also tried different suggestion posted on this thread but no luck.