[SKM Bug]Material attributes within SKM files

Gaieus

Tomasz,

GG automatically locks topics that haven't been "active" (replied to) for 30 days. I have no idea why...

Krisidious

well we won't lock your topic... Promise! we'll even Bump it.

Jim

Hmm, I thought I answered a similar post (from you?) many months ago. I experimented with assigning attributes to materials. If I remember, I was able to do it.

And if I also remember, it didn't work for you?

tomasz

Kristoff, thanks for bumping

Jim, it was Whaat who was looking for solution. Now I have tried as well to attach attribute dictionary to a material AND saving it to SKM file. As provided sample shew the attribute distionary "su2kt" was saved but the "kt_mat" key was empty.

Tomasz

Whaat

Tomasz,

Thanks for looking into this (although I know if this problem can be solved, it will benefit both of us ). I have given up on this at the moment although if there is an easy solution, that would be great!
Right now, material properties for SkIndigo can be saved as IGM files which can be loaded back into SketchUp fairly seamlessly. This file format also has the advantage that it can be imported by other programs like 3DSmax.

I still don't understand how Jim can get the attributes to save but we can't. Hope you can help us with this one, Jim! Thanks!

Krisidious

theres Whaat... I knew he was around here somehwere.

gata

At the moment, there's a 60 day thread posting period at GG forums. That annoyance is on a list of things to fix for the SU forum.

tomasz

Gata, thanks for info.

I have done a test and simple attributes are being saved!
<n0:Attribute key="kt_mat" type="10">Test</n0:Attribute>

  <mat;material colorBlue="0" colorGreen="0" colorRed="0" colorizeType="0" hasTexture="0" name="New" trans="0.5" type="0" useTrans="0" xmlns;n0="http://sketchup.google.com/schemas/1.0/types">
    <n0;AttributeDictionaries count="1">
      <n0;AttributeDictionary count="1" name="su2kt">
        <n0;Attribute key="kt_mat" type="10">Test</n0;Attribute>
      </n0;AttributeDictionary>
    </n0;AttributeDictionaries>
  </mat;material>

It looks we have to translate all unprintable characters into \nn form ( string.dump ).
I will let you know about success or failure

Tomasz

Krisidious

looking forward to knowing more...

tomasz

Here are my findings in relation to attributes assigned to the SKM file:

SU will not save an attribute containing an array or hash
SU will save multiple keys within single attribute dictionary .. but will load only first!

In attached sample there are three keys saved:

<n0:AttributeDictionary count="3" name="su2kt">
<n0:Attribute key="kt_lib_path" type="10">TEST1</n0:Attribute>
<n0:Attribute key="kt_map" type="10">KT MAP</n0:Attribute>
<n0:Attribute key="kt_mat" type="10">KT MAT</n0:Attribute>

but only first kt_lib_path will be loaded
I am afraid only a fix from Google would help.

Tomasz

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/sas/Ruby/Silver.zip