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Hi, that works fine.
There is one problem to be solved:
When the component is de-selected there remains the outline of the image, placing a rectangle around the component.
I do not know how to get rid of it.Thanks,
Rob
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You might want to use Tig's image trimmer.
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=293677#p293677 -
@unknownuser said:
When the component is de-selected there remains the outline of the image
Just hide the outline by selecting it-->right click-->hide or by using shift+ on it.
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Always assuming that the image's background pixels are transparent, then hiding the edges in a component using it as a texture will give you a result - .
However, note some limitations:
Faces using png based transparent textures will not 'receive' shadows.
Faces will cast shadows based on the face's shape NOT the images solid parts.Sp to get comprehensive results, use ImageTrimmer on a png Image with a transparent background and a fully opaque 'body' - it will make it as a component copy [named after the Image], then cut out the solid parts and discard the transparent parts of the face - so the component casts true shadows, it will also hide the edges, smooth the outline to avoid excessive pixelated jaggies, and offer to make the texture into a jpg so that it will receive shadows too...
It comes as part of my SKMtools...
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=SKMtools -
Hi, TIG.
Thanks for your help.
I placed your tool set in the plugin folder, but when starting SketchUp 8 and opening the plugin Menu it is invisible. Also the rbz extension is unknown to me.
What did I do wrong?Thanks,
Rob
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Every page of the plugin store might have a link to a page (in big letters) HOW TO INSTALL PLUGINS. Just a suggestion, would save moderators time too.
Here's one, but I bet SCF could write a better one.
http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/38583 and it could include SCF store instructions (which seems the easiest approach). -
You mean like this one by Rich
http://sketchucation.com/resources/tutorials/37-beginner/108-installing-sketchup-plugins -
Yeah! but link it on every page...
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@rob figee said:
Hi, TIG.
Thanks for your help.
I placed your tool set in the plugin folder, but when starting SketchUp 8 and opening the plugin Menu it is invisible. Also the rbz extension is unknown to me.
What did I do wrong?Thanks,
Rob
Please read up on installing RBZ archives...
If you have >=v8M2 or newer [i.e. the latest-v8/v2013/v2014] you do NOT put RBZ files into the Plugins folder
That will achieve nothing !
But rather you 'install' those files using the Preferences > Extensions > Install tool...
Since you decline to give us even the slightest help by filling in your User Profile with version and OS... we do not know your current state of mind...
It you are a Luddite and must therefore insist on having an earlier [obsolete] version of SketchUp then there are way of turning a RBZ into a ZIP [by renaming] and then extracting its contents for onward destination in the Plugins folder...
Why make your life so difficult ?
I strongly recommend that you move into the current decade........
And stop wasting your time and that of others who then have to help you out of your self-inflicted balls-up...
Please read up... then ask 'informed' questions...If in the off chance you have installed the tool-set into the Plugins folder, then ImageTrimmer appears in the Tools menu
Again there ARE simple instructions about all of this... if you pause to read them...
Sorry if I'm tetchy... it's been a long day -
Sorry TIG. I am working with SketchUp 8 under Windows XP.
Your Tools Collection now appears under the Tools Menu.
I tried it and it works great. The component recieves shaduw too.
What I do not understand is how to let the component face the camera and to project shadow.
EDIT: That problem has been solved too.
Thanks,Rob
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