[Plugin] Sketchup Ivy
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Some help with Sketchup Ivy appreciated. I have downloaded/installed and run the plugin fine although there was an error message at installation and each time I start the plugin(capture). My issues are that The leaf 2 and 3 have a white background displayed in model and when rendered. see image capture1. The material editor in Sk8 has leaf 1 as a .tif and 2 and 3 as .jpg's. I thought I could just go into the folder in plugins find the images and convert them to tifs to give a see through background but therein lies my problem. I can't find the plugin or folder where I extracted it to nor in any of the sub folders of sketchup. I have tried to reinstall (both extract to and copy from a separate location) but it says the file is already there and would I like to overwrite it?? Given I can't find it I can't remove it to try and re-install again in case the initial was corrupted ie the white backgrounds. Thanks to Pierre though for what looks like a great plugin once I get it sorted.
Thanks also to whoever is able to assist
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it works actually quite well for me, at least on windows . A few things are a bit mind boggling , like for example why it generate ghost leaves components that appears in textures and components editors, but once you replace the awfull leaves in the folder textures with decent ivy leaves components ( be sure to give them the same name, ivyleaf_1 etc, it looks as good as the original plugin . More, you can always reload the components with others to create climbing roses, bougainvillea etc . I ll post some of my components tomorrow .
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ok, here are new more realistic ivy leaves and components for a climbing rose . Just delete everything in the plugin's texture folder except the branch texture and replace them with the ivy leaves components you ll find in the Zip file ( ivyleaf_1 . 2 . 3 ) et voilà , you can now grow your ivy . If you want to make a climbing rose, grow an ivy then reload the ivy leaves with the roses components contained in the zip file
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@gilles63 said:
ok, here are new more realistic ivy leaves and components for a climbing rose . Just delete everything in the plugin's texture folder except the branch texture and replace them with the ivy leaves components you ll find in the Zip file ( ivyleaf_1 . 2 . 3 ) et voilà , you can now grow your ivy . If you want to make a climbing rose, grow an ivy then reload the ivy leaves with the roses components contained in the zip file
Thanks, very useful!!
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you are welcome , and myself i must thank Pierre for a great plugin . This textures can be improved, especially the roses, and i realise that some axis should be changed, the leaves tend to hang in the same direction, but i ll work on it and post a better version in the next days .
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like promised, i worked on the components . My apologies by the way, i realised that the leaves components for the roses was seriously so underscaled that it became invisible . Anyway, here is a better one with a 3d flower and components to create a bougainvillea . I think it looks quite good . My advice would be to manually edit the model by removing blooms or leaves where necessary . Besides, the model can be quite heavy, lets say around 5 Mb for an average climbing rose .
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quick render
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climbing rose
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Very nicely done, I like it very well.
Charly
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thanks, but all credit must go to Pierre . It was easy to improve on it .
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I am really looking forward to playing with this one!
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very nice gilles63!
Requesting wisteria sinensis
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Hello.. i am new for vray sketchup. but i found something (like i attached). the render result that leaf had white colour on the edge. any think i can do to remove the white color?
btw this is very interesting plugins..regards
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Yudii
Look back through this thread and you'll find some posts where others have posted alternative versions of the 'images' used by the tool so that there are no edges, backgrounds etc...
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@yudii said:
Hello.. i am new for vray sketchup. but i found something (like i attached). the render result that leaf had white colour on the edge. any think i can do to remove the white color?
btw this is very interesting plugins..regards
In the Diffuse layer of the leaf materials, ensure you've enabled the "Use texture transparency" checkbox. (Might be different wording - but it's the jist of it.)
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Many thanks... very nice update...
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Could you kindly share your parameter for the above sample of yours its truly amazing you could made that output so realistic... If its O.K. to you, thanks in advance...
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If anyone knows how to fix the Ivy plugin for Mac, a great number of people will be very thankful, as will I.
My problem is, I see the dialog box, can change the parameters, but when I start clicking on a surface -> nothing happens. I can keep on clicking it, there will never be a red line. I also tried it on windows where it works just fine. There is also nothing happening in the ruby console.Can anyone help me out?
Thanks,
Michael
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@gilles63 said:
you are welcome , and myself i must thank Pierre for a great plugin . This textures can be improved, especially the roses, and i realise that some axis should be changed, the leaves tend to hang in the same direction, but i ll work on it and post a better version in the next days .
@pierreden said:
After playing with "An Ivy Generator"(found here) I thhought about how awesome it would be to be able to play with something like this directly in Sketchup. I therefore started to port the ivy generator to ruby and Sketchup. As i now have working code with regards to the main parts of the algorithm, collition detection, adhesion and the growing of the ivy branches, i decided to post a proof of concept.
Usage
-Select "Sketchup Ivy 0.5" in the Plugins sub-menu
-Adjust Parameters in Menu
-Every time you click your left mouse button, the ivy will grow
-CTRL-Click for leafs (repeat as many times you want)
-When you're happy with the ivy Shift-click to make it into actual volumes.
VERSION 0.6
UPDATE 12.05.2011
-Tooltip
-Minor bug fixes
-Additional parameters.VERSION 0.5
UPDATE 09.05.2011- Will now use components with "ivyleaf" in the name as leafs. 3 included by default.
- Hopefully better mac support
- Small algorithm changes
- ALT+click to make ivy grow towards pointer
- Thea users: uncheck 'export as components' before exporting. (Thanks Solo)
Fix 0.5.2 - Tool startup fix (maybe?)
VERSION 0.3
UPDATE 05.05.2011- Simple gui. (More parameters to come)
- Leaves
- Speed and reliability
- I know theres some issues with mac. As i haven't had the opportunity to debug on a mac, im not sure if its working now. Mac users with issues are very welcome to PM me or write here. (Guess this goes for everyone with issues, im sure there is lots ).
VERSION 0.1.5
UPDATE 28.04.2011
[Uploaded buggy file !! Sorry]- Added Wind (comming from the position of the sun atm)
-Bug fixes
VERSION 0.1
UPDATE 27.04.2011- Faster Preview
- Better Ivy "Resolution"
- Faster and more reliable volume generation (less buggsplats?)
- Face normals should now be oriented correctly
- More reliable collision detection
- A few bugs in the force algorithms fixed.
- Works as before. Edit the values in Plugins/SketchupIvy/setup.rb
TO COME
- Leaves as Components
- More Parameters and grow patterns.
- Other Plugins. Fur, Cloth and Tree.
Notes
- Never shift-click when there is more than 150 branches (information in the ruby console). This will often cause a bugsplat (seems like sketchup realy, realy, realy doesn't like programmaticaly adding of entities or seemingly infinit loops
) - For the adhesion to work, you have to be in the same scope (i made this to clearify (face.classify_point seems buggy)
- This script has only been tested in SU8. As far as i know this script might cause bugsplat infernos and generally fuck shit up in other versions
- If you find any bugs or problems please PM me If you're extra awesome attach the error description from the ruby console.
Any suggesions, comments or crits are very much welcome!
Peace
PierreHi, I Use sketchup with mac platform. I downloaded and installed the version Beta SketchupIvy.0.6.3.beta 16.45.45 but it doesn't generate anything. With the version Sketchup.0.5.4.rar it works. Could you solve this problem please.
Thank's a lot!
Marco
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