My custom materials no longer work
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Over the past few years I've created several custom folders of materials using one of the forum plugins to bring .jpg's into SU as .skm.; or just creating modified versions of standard SU materials.
Now all of these cause SU to crash. Has anyone else had this problem. Is the latest version of SU handling .skm files differently?
Interesting and sounds similar:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=50204 -
No change in SKM handling for several version changes now.
Could you post [or PM] some SKMs so we can have a look...
Perhaps some that work and, of course, some that don't.
Have you recently changes OS?
Are the security permissions to the containing folders, and the files themselves 'FULL' etc ? -
PM sent with three files that don't work.
Thanks, TIG
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As I PMd earlier...
The SKM files look fine, they are no different to many similar SKM...
Also they all worked fine for me.
So this suggests something is wrong with your setup: permissions, loading etc, from your preferred location... although I believe it used to work...
To test this... place a few of the crashing SKM files in a folder locally on your current HD and try using those: if they work but their cousins in your normal folder setup still crash it suggests to me that the issue isn't 'with Sketchup', but rather in the way the SKM file's data is getting made available to Sketchup ? Perhaps 'delayed' or limited etc...
Can you check all of the security permissions etc and ensure that your SKMs' folder/subfolders and the files themselves are set to be FULL for 'everyone'...
Retest and report back... -
I did a bunch of testing on my laptop at home and decided to start deleting plugins starting with the latest added.
After I deleted 3skeng and Tgi3d the problem seems to have gone away. I'll need to test this on my desktop at home and at work since they are all connected to the same SU files through Dropbox. -
Those tools may well add 'observers' onto your Model's Materials collection, which in turn might well mess you up as you add materials... However, they are mainly encrypted, and I don't have a 'live' copy of them either, so I can't be certain...
If you narrow it down to the one culprit, or you decide its an interaction of say the two, then it would be helpful to the wider community if you advise the author[s] directly - they might be able to make their tool less 'aggressive' with some simple recoding...
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