[Plugin] TextureTools
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Hi TIG, and thank you for this great script!
Just one thing, I've mentioned here an plugin idea, that could rotate a texture along the longest dimension of a surface. Do you think it's possible? -
Matt
Here's a one-liner that gives you the angles of a selected face's longest edge relative to the X_AXIS/Y_AXIS/Z_AXIS - the result in degrees [e.g. 90.0, 66.666, 0.0] you can then copy+pasted the sensible one into the TextureTool's Rotate dialog and the texture will realign with the long edge...
f=Sketchup.active_model.selection[0];es=f.edges;ed=es[0];d=0;es.each{|e|(d=e.length;ed=e)if e.length>d};x=ed.line[1].angle_between(X_AXIS).radians;y=ed.line[1].angle_between(Y_AXIS).radians-90;z=ed.line[1].angle_between(Z_AXIS).radians;(x=x-90;y=y-90;z=z-90)if f.normal.z.abs==1;p x,y,zThat assumes that the current texture has never been rotated...
It's not perfect but it's a start...
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Thank you for your answer TIG, I'll take a look!
I was thinking more of a tool that would orient textures in current selection (groupe, component, or faces), or even the entire model...
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The three TextureTools Rotate/Scale/Shunt are written to allow passing of arguments, so they can be run from other tools without a dialog.
So, if you pass an angle in degrees to the 'rotate' tool then there's no dialog...
So you can envisage a new tool that iterates all of the faces in a selection and finds the long side of each, calculates the rotation needed, and then uses the 'rotate' tool with the required angle passed to it so that the faces are processed en mass...
It only works on one selected face at a time... so the new tool's code needs to use
` ss=model.selection
ssa=ss.to_a
ss.cleariterate face in faces
ss.add(face)
then later### find angle_in_degrees etc...
TextureTools::Rotate.new(angle_in_degrees)
ss.clearloop`
on close it could then use
ss.clear ss.add(ssa)
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Ok that's great! Thank you TIG!
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I must have missed this one before, but thanks again for another immensely useful and generous plugin!
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TIG, I have a request.
Would it be possible to add a "rotate, scale and match UVs" tool?
It would work this way:First, you select all the faces you want to edit the texture on.
Second, you click on the tool and select one face you want to use as a reference.
Third, the script matches scale and rotation, AND if possible, offset of UVs from the reference faces UVs compared to the vertices of the faces in the initial selection. (Does this make sense?) -
@pixero said:
TIG, I have a request.
Would it be possible to add a "rotate, scale and match UVs" tool?
It would work this way:First, you select all the faces you want to edit the texture on.
Second, you click on the tool and select one face you want to use as a reference.
Third, the script matches scale and rotation, AND if possible, offset of UVs from the reference faces UVs compared to the vertices of the faces in the initial selection. (Does this make sense?)It's possible to 'batch process' textures on faces by passing arguments as explained elsewhere in the thread... The complication is gleaning the scale/rotation of the selected face's texture... I'll sleep on it [for a day or two...]
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I'm not sure I understand the word "gleaning"?
Would it be possible to compare the vertices position/distance from the "reference" face and the others and get the UVs from that? Just a thought... -
Sorry, my slightly 'old' English slipped in there... by 'gleaning' I mean gathering up small bits from a larger amount... 'to glean' the wheat from the chaff when threshing corn, is to collect the small grains of wheat and leave the rest of the straw etc behind... SO by metaphor - we need to collect the important small bits of data from the larger amount that is available - by some yet unspecified process...
We would need to take the UV-mapping of one face and apply it to others - that's straightforward... however, using relative rotations etc gets more complex...
I'm thinking about it... -
Missed this
Any chance you could add a scale feature?
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I have been happily using Texture Tools for a few weeks, but seem to have borked them with the addition of other plugins. I have been backtracking to disable / remove some of the unexplored/less useful items, but wonder...are there any known plugin conflicts to avoid with TT V. 1.5? I reeeeely like it.
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There shouldn't be any clashes with other tools - they are self-contained in there own Module and there are no added/changed built-in methods ??
Can you post any messages from the Ruby Console [which needs to be open before you run anything] when you test its tools... or other tools that seem to 'clash'.
Script 'clashes' are very rare and usually arise from rewritten shared methods or observer glitches - but I'd be surprised if it were the case here -
good
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Thanks Bro for creating such wonderful plugin...
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hi dear TIG ...
this plugin is grate .. it installs with no problem .. and it runs well when I install this codes in a blank plugin folder with SU's default rubies ... but ... when I try to run it whit my own plugins folder with many rubies installed , it doesn't run in the way ... no start up problems .. but when I click to a Icon in your toolbar anything happens ...
help me ... I thing your plugin intersects with another plugins .. because when I turn them off the plugin works well again ...i'm not a developer but I sometimes read the developers section .. I have seen a topic that say developer should use unique classes and unique names ...
so please change your code names .. if it's need ... I don't know about it .. you are a SU ruby genius .. and you know it better than me ...
but .. there is a bug that happens when I load my outher plugins ( include VRAY , and lots of other rubies ) .. loading theme disables plugin's function
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I am surprised that it clashes with any other scripts.
It is written within its own class/module/methods etc.
There are a few 'rogue scripts' that mess with base class method - often to do with groups - or have ill-configure observers; although these tools have little that I can think of that might clash with anything, let alone a 'rogue script'
Can you open the Ruy Console before trying my tools and pass on any error messages that might appear...
It's currently a mystery
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here is the screen shots ...
... I have run commands from the "menu" section of plugins code ( cmd1=UI::Command.new("TextureRotate"){TextureTools::Rotate.new()} ) ...
I have copied and pasted commands ...
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Why are you pasting commands ?
These are not complete??
TextureTools::Rotate.new()is all you need... BUT why ?Have you edited the script at all?
Using a program to 'read' the file [+ a 'save'] other than a plain-text editor [like Notepad.exe] will corrupt the contents.
Or have you downloaded it is a strange way?
The file appears to be corrupted and the commands are not correctly formed.
try downloaded a pristine copy again...
This screenshot shows what the lines should look like.
What happens when you use the toolbar buttons ???
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