[Plugin] Layers Panel 1.2.1

jiminy-billy-bob

Hey guys, how about choosing what layers to render ?
Got it working with at least Vray, Kerkythea, and Maxwell suite.

Tobobo

Hey guys, how about choosing what layers to render ?
Got it working with at least Vray, Kerkythea, and Maxwell suite.

That is a very interesting concept.

It means you could using to hide walls etc

jiminy-billy-bob

It means the plugin will hide/unhide chosen layers when you hit the render button, without actually hidding/showing them. So you could have heavy vegetation layers sent to the renderer, but never activated in SU's viewport.

tt_su

Oh? Now that sounds mighty interesting.

jiminy-billy-bob

Yeah, and that's pretty simple :

Start operation with UI disabled
Hide/unhide chosen layers (But UI is disabled, so their visibility is not actually changed)
Trigger render (like "VRayForSketchUp.launch_vray_render")
Revert back layers visibility
Commit operation

Bob James

Totally outstanding plugin
Would it be possible to add the ability to delete a layer into the current layer?

Example:
I have layer 5 chosen as the current default layer.
I want to put all the stuff in layer 8 into layer 5
I need the option to select 1. delete completely, 2. delete to layer 0, and 3. delete to current layer.
The first two exist (the red garbage can and the green garbage can)
Now I'd like a "blue" garbage can "delete to current layer"
Once again: Outstanding Plugin

Bob James

While using Ctrl-z to undelete portions of the model that I have just deleted, I get this dialog.

jiminy-billy-bob

Noted bob about deleting to active layer.
Not sure about the undo problem, though. Do you get this every time ?

jiminy-billy-bob

BOOM !
Choose what layer to render !

[screenr:t24aadah]OHcH[/screenr:t24aadah]

Works with Vray, Maxwell, Kerkythea and Indigo. I'm working with Tomasz to get Thea to support this feature.
It still needs some finishing, but the release is not far

Tobobo

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

BOOM !
Choose what layer to render !
Works with Vray, Maxwell, Kerkythea and Indigo. I'm working with Tomasz to get Thea to support this feature.
It still needs some finishing, but the release is not far

Well done!!! I cant wait to have a crack

jiminy-billy-bob

New version 0.4 beta !

Changelog :

Adds the ability to choose which layers to render (Works with Vray, Maxwell, Indigo, and Kerkythea)
Fix bug when having too many layers
The dialog now remembers its size and position when closed
Fix focus jumping at the top of the dialog

Download in the plugin store !

kirill2008

I won't be original, just want to say: it is a great plugin! Many thanks for it!

jiminy-billy-bob

@kirill2008 said:

I won't be original

You don't have to, it's always nice to hear that

Ulimann

Hallo Jiminy

Great plugin , installed the update and get the resulting screen on activation.
I am running Windows 7 64 SU 8 PRO.

Layer Addon.PNG

jiminy-billy-bob

Can you delete everything concerning Layers Panel in your plugin folder, and reinstall it ?
Plugins/jbb_layers_panel.rb
Plugins/jbb_layers_panel

Ulimann

Thanks for the quick reply,did as you suggested its up and running.

sadyo

Great Plugin... (y)
waiting for Render feature to work with Thea Render

jiminy-billy-bob

Actually, if it works with Thea on day, it'll behave differently. You will probably have an option directly inside Thea allowing you to choose if you want to render with Layers Panel feature or not. But you won't render from within Layers Panel as you do with Vray/Maxwell/etc. This is due to the way Thea is designed. I can't trigger the render from my plugin.

I gave evrything to Tomasz to make it work, the ball is on his side now So if you badly want this feature, you should get in touch with him !

doush-007

Great plugin...it must absolutely replaced the layer window in the next version of sketchup..thanks a lot for this plugin

JQL

Jiminy great plugin and great news on Thea!

Is it possible that my layer groups have been wiped out after a purge?

Best regards,

JQL