[Plugin][$] 3D Tree Maker - New version 1.10.14

driven

hi

working on mac mountain lion with SU v2013.

PM Chris Fullmer re the scaling, I think he may have an answer...

One request I would have is to allow loading from other Folders/Directories, it appears to be hard coded to Plugins Folder.

john

Krisidious

I think Lumion and Revizto don't show back faces unless they have updated the problem. Revizto has an option to turn them on.

Zacchia

Hi
Thanks, it's very nice! When open SU this console is also on every start. Why?

massimo

@zacchia said:

Hi
Thanks, it's very nice! When open SU this console is also on every start. Why?

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=476285#p476285

Zacchia

@massimo said:

@zacchia said:

Hi
Thanks, it's very nice! When open SU this console is also on every start. Why?

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=476285#p476285

OK, thanks!

Oxer

Incredible plugin!!
I know is in beta phase but it has a great potential to make fantastic parametric trees.
Like previous comments when I open SU it appears Console window with warning messages, I use SU 8 on mac OSX 10.8.3.
In a quick testing all works fine on Mac, if you want I can help you to give support to translate the plugin to other languages, creating a file with strings for translation, I have done a lot of translations for SU plugins.

Box

He already said he would fix that.

Already answered.JPG

solo

This is awesome, sure there are a few small things but wow! this is going to be a zinger of a plugin.

Anyway to get a console/applet for modifying the parameters and an update button?

Pixero

@solo said:

This is awesome, sure there are a few small things but wow! this is going to be a zinger of a plugin.

Anyway to get a console/applet for modifying the parameters and an update button?

If you rightclick on the tree you can change parameters. Is that what you wanted?

kaas

@ppoublan said:

Dear all,
Just to inform you I made a script to create Sketchup 3D Trees. It's now a beta version,
Yours Pascal

Wonderful - I was messing around last week with Tree[d] but this seems much more to my liking. Will surely test it tomorrow. Again a big

edit: typo

solo

@pixero said:

@solo said:

This is awesome, sure there are a few small things but wow! this is going to be a zinger of a plugin.

Anyway to get a console/applet for modifying the parameters and an update button?

If you rightclick on the tree you can change parameters. Is that what you wanted?

I saw that, what I'd like is a console/applet where I can do all the changes and update without clicking out to see results then right clicking to make more changes.

jpalm32

@cadfather said:

Pascal, works fine here - and the trees look great - if you run Thom's 'Cleanup', you can further save yourself 40000 to 60000 polygons. outrageous plugin, this is going to be perfect when 2014 64bit comes out.

this is going to be perfect when 2014 64bit comes out.

notareal

Looks great!

@massimo said:

@krisidious said:

Fantastic Massimo...

on revered faces... while this should not be an issue in SU, some renderers will not show backfaces.

But materials seem to be applied on both front and back faces, so this should not be an issue because renderers will "see" the mat on the front face anyway. However I agree that having front faces should be better.

I am not sure if all renderers can handle materials from back faces. With Thea, it really does not matter generally, but some features like displacement, do use surface normals - then things will go wrong.

massimo

Right.

Krisidious

On SU 2013 Win, I'm getting this error on startup.

no such file to load -- 3darcstudio/3darcstudiotree.rbs
Error Loading File 3darcstudiotreeloader.rb
no such file to load -- 3darcstudio/3darcstudiotree.rbs

The file is in the location specified.

ppoublan

@krisidious said:

On SU 2013 Win, I'm getting this error on startup.

no such file to load -- 3darcstudio/3darcstudiotree.rbs
Error Loading File 3darcstudiotreeloader.rb
no such file to load -- 3darcstudio/3darcstudiotree.rbs

The file is in the location specified.

Hi,
I just downloaded and installed SU 2013 Make on Windows 7. And copied the 3darcstudio zip content to the plugin directory.
Seems to work fine.
Are you really sure you copied the subdirectory "3darcstudio" into the SU 2013 Plugins (not the Google old one)?

ppoublan

@chris fullmer said:

So instead of

t = Geom::Transformation.scaling(scale_factor)

Do this:

t = Geom::Transformation.scaling(scale_factor,scale_factor,scale_factor)

That way it won't write the scale value to the 16th position, but will in fact do the math and distribute it across the entire matrix.

Chris

Thanks Chris, I will change the code according to your sample.

Chris Fullmer

@driven said:

PM Chris Fullmer re the scaling, I think he may have an answer...

Tis True! This is a known bug introduced in 7.1. Scaling globally by applying a scale factor to the 16th matrix position is bugged. So instead of

t = Geom::Transformation.scaling(scale_factor)

Do this:

t = Geom::Transformation.scaling(scale_factor,scale_factor,scale_factor)

That way it won't write the scale value to the 16th position, but will in fact do the math and distribute it across the entire matrix.

If you need a code snippet to reset the scale of a component to a bug-free transformation matrix, I could post that as well.

Besides the fact that some renderer's don't take this global scale feature into account, a lot of video cards also do not. We've had reports that fog will not work correctly on components with the global scale, and face-me components also do not account for it. So if the leaves are set to face-me, it can cause a lot of craziness

I guess we can take this discussion over to the developers forum if you want to talk more about it. Looks like an awesome plugin!

Chris

ppoublan

@solo said:

@pixero said:

@solo said:

This is awesome, sure there are a few small things but wow! this is going to be a zinger of a plugin.

Anyway to get a console/applet for modifying the parameters and an update button?

If you rightclick on the tree you can change parameters. Is that what you wanted?

I saw that, what I'd like is a console/applet where I can do all the changes and update without clicking out to see results then right clicking to make more changes.

I think I understand this request. I was myself really disappointed when I wanted to add more input parameters with the poor input types that can be used with UI class.
It will take some time to build it as I'm really a beginner with html and applets. Does someone could confirm SU 2013 has or not better features to build user input data interfaces ? Or should I go any way with Applets and html code ?

Yours
Pascal

Krisidious

everything seems to be in it's rightful place.