Posts made by BTM

@burkhard said:

Please BTM use page 1 for posting the updates. The thread shows 1....6,7,8,9,10. It's a pain to get page 4

… And that's the point I don't need everyone downloading it yet, it's not the finished version. Right now I just need the people who really want to download it to, so that I can get feedback from those people on what should be done. When I think I can release a version 1.0, I'll make a new thread for it.

Also, I'm trying to get entities.add_circle to draw the circle for view.draw, but I don't know how to get the resulting points to use, without actually making the circle. Anyone have any ideas?

@aceshigh said:

where are you guys downloading the plugin to test it??? There is no download link anywhere!

it's on page 4

@mrwip said:

I'm just a bit wondering on the purpose of the push tool. In fact, it does a kind of flatten effect, and often creates intersection bugs between triangles... so I'm not sure of the real interest of it, but maybe I'm not using it in the right way.

Push just pushes vertices (points) away from the tool. When holding shift, it does the opposite. Depending on whether you use it on or next to the mesh, it will give fairly different results. It's best to have the push tool at a lower strength if you're using it on a mesh.

@unknownuser said:

hi btm
I've been playing with the plugin, which as you know already it's great (can imagine the smove tool stop being used that much now for land sculpting...) but i have some suggestions if you don't mind.

• i'm also one that would like to have visual helpers like a circle showing the radios when sculpting;
• is possible so have an option to have a "symmetry option" on? Because when i know i can use 2 components for half of each face but that won't really work that well because the faces in the extremities will move too making a hole in the middle (see pic below);
• an option that i can turn off or on for when sculpting if i keep pressing the mouse he will keep smoothing/bulging/etc or will just do it once for each stroke (hope I'm making myself clear).

Again thanks for this plugin and i hope you don't think i'm being ungrateful and asking for too much.
thanks

David

Visual help is what I'm working on I just need to figure out how to draw a circle with view.draw

Symmetry… I know what you mean. Right now, I use JS Align to make things I sculpt symmetrical, but it's a bit of a pain. As for a symmetry script, possibly, although it wouldn't be that easy.

Lastly, I don't understand your third question. can you clarify?

BMW Z4_0.6.skp
… I've been playing around with mixing up methods from the SketchUp API with SketchyPhysics, and have concluded that it's really fun The above model was made entirely by me, and is a BMW Z4 which is steered by the WASD keys, and spacebar is boost, with C and V to take out/ put away guns, and up arrow to shoot. Shooting doesn't really matter though; it's not the point

This is incredible! What plugins did you use? How did you make all the ropes and fabrics? Did you use sketchyphysics to position the chains, or was it all manually?
Sorry I'm asking so many questions, but this is probably the greatest sketchup model I've ever seen.

@majid said:

It is definetely a great plugin... it workes fine with SU6 ,but bulge tool sometimes doesn't works with SU7...and I must choose another tool , then comeback to sculp tool, to force it working.is it a bug or interfere with other plugs...something abou SU7 or...?

I don't know.
When it doesn't work, what exactly do you mean? Does it stop working altogether? try keeping the ruby console open and tell me what pops up in it when the tool stops working.

@blah11 said:

@macker said:

This is going to sound so bitchy... Why did that take you 7 hours?

I altered the sides of the shield to that they would be kinda odd but in a good way, they aren't round but kinda weird. its kinda hard to notice but this shield is a great shape its not straight.

Still, 7 hours?? go check out the Speed Modeling Competitions at http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewforum.php?f=291, you might be able to spot some techniques for speeding up the modeling process. 7 hours seems quite a lot of time for a sword and shield

… Don't get me wrong though; you DID do a good job

@unknownuser said:

I doubt anyone could have done it faster then I did and I am a fast sketchup artist.

As I mentioned above, the Speed Modeling Competition can give you great ideas for techniques to speed up the process, maybe you could join too . It would be nice to have more entries, and if you win you get your username displayed in bright orange for everyone to see

@xblackbirdx said:

that sounds folder is not in my sketchyphysics3 folder

… It should be, if you have sketchyphysics3 rc1 or later.

@chris fullmer said:

Charly, you don't have duplicate icons and your on Windows. Are most people still getting double set of toolbar icons? I am running Vista 64bit and I still get ther double icons. Anyone else?

Chris

… I don't think anybody else said they were getting duplicate icons but you. ( Though, in an older version of the script there were duplicates in the plugins menu; there shouldn't be anymore. )
It's a bit weird. does anyone else with vista have the same problem as Chris?

… on a side note, does anyone know how to get view.draw to draw a 12 point circle, oriented in any direction with any given radius?

@charly2008 said:

Hi to All,

it is a very nice tool but where can i find the icons for the toolbar. The toolbar works but without icons.
The icons were not included at the download.

They should have been, and are included in the latest version. Maybe try re-installing it ( go to page 4; the download there has been updated several times. )

Okay, after looking through the utilitiestools script, and through the SU API for a while, I have found out how to add inferencing and view.draw objects you can see scripts will be updated eventually.

` def activate
@ip1 = Sketchup::InputPoint.new
@ip2 = Sketchup::InputPoint.new
# new inputpoints.
end

def onMouseMove(flags,x,y,view)
@ip1.pick view, x, y
#gets 1.
if @ip1 != @ip2
# if 1 moved from the last position, where 2 is, do this.
view.invalidate if( @ip1.display? or @ip2.display? )
# invalidate the view if either point is shown. remove the if( @ip1.display? or @ip2.display? ) part when adding other visualizations.
@ip2.copy! @ip1
# set 2 to 1, so that when 1 moves again, it can tell.
end
end

def draw(view)
@ip1.draw view
# draw 1.
end`

If a group has no colour, but is coloured with a transparent colour on the outside, it will end up as the clay material, and non-transparent, due to the script not doing anything with the assigned colours of groups/ components. I think that if there is a group, the script should see if it has a material assigned to it, if so, don't change the 'default' colours inside, but change all non-default colours inside, and the exterior material to the clay one/ transparent clay one. If the group has no material assigned to it, treat it normally. That way, groups with transparent materials assigned to them will work properly. Personally, I don't usually paint groups themselves, but it's still a thought.

@unknownuser said:

@unknownuser said:

I just need to read a state of CTRL\MENU key upon the start-up of the plugin.

Did you try with the event OnMouseMove, which has a flags argument too?

… This is a bit off-topic, but on windows
` class Flagtest

def onMouseMove(flags,x,y,view)
UI.messagebox flags
end
end

Sketchup.active_model.select_tool Flagtest.new`
will come up with 0 on mouse move, if no keys are pressed. on my mac, it's 256. Any idea why?

update:
Also, onMouseMove only activates when the mouse moves in the model area, so it wouldn't activate on startup of the plugin.

@negativa said:

Hello all! Here's another head ...
Great script
[attachment=0:2reuq2g6]<!-- ia0 -->my_sculpthead.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2reuq2g6]

Nice!

@unknownuser said:

Why put the "ruby console" and not the "Web Console" of Jim Foltz?
Seems it is more easy using?
(but I am totally new beginner in Ruby script

PS With the Webconsole seems you can't save (bug ?)

You can save, it just doesn't say that you have the same file open after that. it's weird.

that's incredible!!!

( 03/07/09) Working icons on windows. easy install.

… These are the only files necessary, and where they should go:

btm_Sculpt_Tools_Loader.rb > plugins folder
btm_Sculpt_Tools folder > plugins folder

btm_sculpt1_dialog1.png > btm_Sculpt_Tools folder
btm_sculpt2_bulge1.png > btm_Sculpt_Tools folder
btm_sculpt3_push1.png > btm_Sculpt_Tools folder
btm_sculpt4_smooth1.png > btm_Sculpt_Tools folder
btm_Sculpt1_Dialog.rb > btm_Sculpt_Tools folder
btm_Sculpt2_Bulge.rb > btm_Sculpt_Tools folder
btm_Sculpt3_Push.rb > btm_Sculpt_Tools folder
btm_Sculpt4_smooth.rb > btm_Sculpt_Tools folder

… Post here if you are having problems.

NOTES: for Bulge and Push, Shift will reverse the tools, so Bulge will carve, and Push will Pull. Bulge bulges the mesh, push pushes things away from the cursor, and smooth smoothes out the mesh.

@jim said:

calling view.invalidate forces a refresh. Hope that helps.

That much I do know, but my problem is where to put it, and when to do it.