[Plugin] FloorGenerator ( Updated 6-Apr-2017)

Ben Ritter

SDMitch, thank you for your generosity and talent.

Ben Ritter

I've said it before, but thanks you!

I think you forgot to say that if you place a folder called BTW_Textures in your plugin folder and choose use Apply material: Rand_Tex it will use all textures in that folder. Here are a few tests I've made:

[attachment=3:1u96rdu7]Bricks01.jpg[/attachment:1u96rdu7]
Can you spot the tiling? No, because there is none. This is with 10 small seamless brick textures used.

[attachment=2:1u96rdu7]floor03.jpg[/attachment:1u96rdu7]
This is just one single seamless texture used.

[attachment=0:1u96rdu7]tiles01.jpg[/attachment:1u96rdu7]
This is also just one texture used.

Pixero, thank you very much.

sdmitch

A new update. Added two new patterns.

Oxer

Thanks you very much for this useful plugin!!
It works perfectly on Mac & SU2014. One question, the Row2Row Offset for Brick is 0.5 by default when you use mm units, I changed to 50 in line 69 of the rb file.

@defaults=["Corner","0","Current","Yes","Yes","50","No","No","0","No","No","30","150","50","12","6","3"] if @@opt=="Brick"

@pixero said:

I think you forgot to say that if you place a folder called BTW_Textures in your plugin folder and choose use Apply material: Rand_Tex it will use all textures in that folder.

Thanks Pixero for the info and Textures

Another question, what units uses the Texture Size, mm, inches or pixels?

sdmitch

@oxer said:

Thanks you very much for this useful plugin!!
It works perfectly on Mac & SU2014. One question, the Row2Row Offset for Brick is 0.5 by default when you use mm units, I changed to 50 in line 69 of the rb file.

@defaults=["Corner","0","Current","Yes","Yes","50","No","No","0","No","No","30","150","50","12","6","3"] if @@opt=="Brick"

Thanks for pointing that out. Originally I was using a fraction(0.5) instead of a %. Once it is corrected from within the plugin and Update is clicked, that should take care of it.

@pixero said:

I think you forgot to say that if you place a folder called BTW_Textures in your plugin folder and choose use Apply material: Rand_Tex it will use all textures in that folder.

Thanks Pixero for the info and Textures

Another question, what units uses the Texture Size, mm, inches or pixels?

What ever units you are using in the model, either mm or inches. The API says inches but mm seemed to work for me.

Oxer

I use metric units in my models for that, I suppose the Texture Size it will expressed in mm, is it so?
The Options Window is a bit little on Mac, I changed the window hight to 530 so I can see all options.

@@dlg=UI::WebDialog.new("FloorGenerator", false,"BTW",300,530,10,10,true)

Oxer

I have created a icon for the plugin.

Floor Generator Icon

Icons FloorGenerator

Krisidious

Can we get something like this as a pattern?

Can you show us some patterns to build for you? let us help.

3D_Hatching_LedgeStone.skp

sdmitch

@krisidious said:

Can we get something like this as a pattern?

Can you show us some patterns to build for you? let us help.

That pattern is just a bit to random I think. the closest I could get is a random length, width and thickness using the wood pattern

3D_Hatching_LedgeStone.skp

pbacot

Still after the holy grail, ay Kris? lol. I am trying to figure out how to do a stone wall surface (with SU hole punch components for windows etc.) and make some sort of detail at the corners that suggests the stone profile...

That's not bad sdmitch Should keep looking at it!

Krisidious

@pbacot said:

Still after the holy grail, ay Kris? lol. I am trying to figure out how to do a stone wall surface (with SU hole punch components for windows etc.) and make some sort of detail at the corners that suggests the stone profile...

That's not bad sdmitch Should keep looking at it!

lmao... And I will have it.

Krisidious

That looks pretty dame good sdmitch... if I had used a better tiling texture it would look better.

rviz

@unknownuser said:

inconsistent grid origin\rotation (tried on simple cube, see pic.1)
By design, the plugin aligns the pattern length with the longest edge of the face picked. In this case, I would undo and redo the face with 90 rotation selected.

After 90 rotating the tool takes origins randomly: sometimes it's the upper corner, sometimes the lower one.

But the most important: is there place for code optimization? It takes approx 5 min to put 2k tiles (to do it manually would take may be 0.5 min ).

sdmitch

As with any plugin, if you can do it faster manually, then don't use the plugin.

If you are using Corner origin, the corner closest to the point on the face that you pick will be used.

zieios

Thanks
love it....

EarthMover

Drooling. I've been hoping for this for a long while. Thanks Sam. Brilliant work!

sdmitch

Yet another update!!!

TIG

This should be available in the SCF PluginStore...
Is it now 'stable' enough to be added ?

sdmitch

@tig said:

This should be available in the SCF PluginStore...
Is it now 'stable' enough to be added ?

Perhaps not just yet. There will probably more pattern options added in the near future.

Is there a way for me to add it to the plugin store or do you have to do that?

Tandem

@sdmitch said:

...Is there a way for me to add it to the plugin store or do you have to do that?

There really should be a page or topic that explains the process of adding a plugin to the SketchUcation Plugin Store. I have searched the whole site, but could not find anything. Would be useful for developers and end users.