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  • T Offline
    the.pjt
    last edited by 12 Jun 2012, 17:48

    oh .... yes TIG .... it was back face ... the blue ... he he ... I didn't know that .. I thought your tools works on every face sides .. and by default I drew a revered face - the back side !! the rectangle tool creates back sided face ...

    I did everything I knew to fix it ... !! ... he he .. I completely copy and pasted all my ruby files .. and cleaned up all my plugins ... I rearranged and relocated all my toolbars several times ..

    and all of them was useless tasks .. everything was OK ... !! ... he he ...

    thanks TIG .. I was so stupid ๐Ÿ˜„

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      TIG Moderator
      last edited by 12 Jun 2012, 19:31

      Good ๐Ÿ˜’
      We have the answer - PEBCAC.***

      The tip is, "Make sure you model your faces the right way round!"
      It's ymportant when adjusting textures and also when exporting you model to most 3rd party renderers, which will usually ignore materials on back-faces and dutifully render the unseen front-faces ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

      ***Problem Exists Between Chair And Computer - i.r. YOU ๐Ÿ˜‰

      TIG

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      • B Offline
        Buki
        last edited by 15 Jun 2012, 15:45

        I didn't see anyone else having this problem, but I'm not getting the toolbar following install. The plugin does show in the plugin drop down menu. I did already have a TIGtools folder and extracted the contents of the TIGtools folder included in the download to that location. This is certainly a user error, any ideas
        chrisa

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          TIG Moderator
          last edited by 15 Jun 2012, 21:12

          Buki

          If you get the menu items working, then it is loading OK.
          So first a simple question...
          Have you activated the Toolbar from Views > Toolbars ?
          By default it's inactive after the initial installation...
          Even if you had misplaced the toolbar-buttons' png files the activated toolbar would still exist, but with blank buttons ??

          TIG

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            Buki
            last edited by 15 Jun 2012, 21:25

            @tig said:

            Buki

            If you get the menu items working, then it is loading OK.
            So first a simple question...
            Have you activated the Toolbar from Views > Toolbars ?
            By default it's inactive after the initial installation...
            Even if you had misplaced the toolbar-buttons' png files the activated toolbar would still exist, but with blank buttons ??

            Yep, like I guessed, user error. I didn't see that it was off by default in the tools menu. I was a bit hasty in asking, thank you for getting back to me so quickly

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              bigteks
              last edited by 24 Jul 2012, 05:18

              awesome thanks ๐Ÿ˜

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                okomta
                last edited by 23 Apr 2013, 03:47

                thanks man,,very helpful,,

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                  marco62118
                  last edited by 19 May 2013, 17:24

                  good evening
                  I try to use your pluggin to change the size of a tiling texture, but each time the texture turns along the dimension changes

                  thank you in advance

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                    TIG Moderator
                    last edited by 19 May 2013, 18:52

                    @marco62118 said:

                    good evening
                    I try to use your pluggin to change the size of a tiling texture, but each time the texture turns along the dimension changes

                    thank you in advance
                    You need to use the scale and then the position tool together...
                    You haven't explained very clearly what it is you want to do and what it's doing ๐Ÿ˜•

                    TIG

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                      marco62118
                      last edited by 20 May 2013, 20:17

                      good evening
                        I do not understand the plugin does not respond
                      dialog boxes are displayed correctly, but nothing happens

                      Can you help me?

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                        CadFather
                        last edited by 21 May 2013, 06:37

                        the plugin only works on front faces (not sure why) - so, check that your texture is painted facing front and then try again. perhaps TIG can make it work on back face as well in the future.

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                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by 21 May 2013, 12:47

                          These tools only works on front-faces... because that's where textured-material ought to be applied.

                          Applying a material onto a back-face is just bad practice.
                          Back-faces should never be visible.
                          Modeling with reversed faces can lead to many problems when pushpulling, applying cutting components etc, and when the SKP is exported, used in many rendering applications etc, etc...

                          The native context-menu Texture tool will adjust front/back-face textures, depending on which side of the face you are seeing... use that if you insist on sloppy modeling.

                          BUT I deliberately discourage the application of materials on back-faces.
                          So these tools will only ever adjust textured-materials applied onto front-faces.

                          Use Monochrome mode, with a contrasting back-face default-material in the Style, to check that you are not modeling 'inside out' ๐Ÿ˜•
                          The context-menu items Reverse and Orient are useful to fix reversed faces as you model - shortcut keys is highly recommended. Also use Monochrome as you model to check the correctness of the faces' orientation. Only start applying materials and texturing once the geometry is pretty much resolved... ๐Ÿ˜’

                          TIG

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                            CadFather
                            last edited by 21 May 2013, 17:09

                            yes, i understand, though i guess that's only if you are using a rendering package, if you use SU for render, than back faces are just as good - and of course when you paint both you don't get those pesky flickering edges.

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                              Arc
                              last edited by 24 Sept 2013, 02:29

                              Eneroth Texture Positioning Tools
                              http://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/eneroth-texture-positioning-tools

                              Is this same plugin?

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                              • T Offline
                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by 24 Sept 2013, 08:39

                                @arc said:

                                Eneroth Texture Positioning Tools
                                http://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/eneroth-texture-positioning-tools

                                Is this same plugin?
                                No, mine is the original one...

                                TIG

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                                  Mafalda_Melo_Oliveira
                                  last edited by 16 Oct 2013, 10:37

                                  How do I install?

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                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by 16 Oct 2013, 15:45

                                    @mafalda_melo_oliveira said:

                                    How do I install?
                                    Find the tool in the SCF PluginStore [Resources menu first item], get the RBZ and install it with Preferences > Extensions > Install... button in v2013 or v8...
                                    OR get the SketchUcation Plugin Store toolset [second item in that menu or in the first item - under most popular...] - that lets you AutoInstall Plugins from within SketchUp itself...

                                    You need to ensure you have FULL security permissions to your Plugins folder - there are several post covering that...

                                    TIG

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                                      TIG Moderator
                                      last edited by 14 Dec 2013, 13:39

                                      New version available at the PluginStore http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=329765#p329765

                                      TIG

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                                        anesalesayi
                                        last edited by 29 Apr 2014, 14:52

                                        thanx man

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                                          CadFather
                                          last edited by 13 Nov 2014, 11:21

                                          great plugin - would be fantastic if it worked on back faces too

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