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@box said:

It's not quite what you want but Jim made a plugin to attach the camera to the sun so you can track the sun on your structure. Might help.
http://sketchucation.com/plugin/853-attach_camera_to_sun

Not quite the same I think...there's another plugin called Shadowtex (by Renderiza) that does something quite close by tracing a line from the center of every face to the sun's current position, but it uses this information to detect faces that are in shadow.

Maybe this technique can be modified to detect angles between faces and the sun angle? I know nothing about rubyscript, so unfortunately I wouldn't even know how to begin trying to build something like this...maybe one of the gurus here can have a think about it.

J

You can find it here 😉

@unknownuser said:

Dave: There's another plugin which just creates layers which are hidden on all but the current scene but I can't find the link for it at the moment.

I think it's "AddHiddenLayer"
http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2007/08/add-hidden-layer.html

And with Simfonia ?
Minutes 2 . 28

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyQvEnw6sLw

@gaieus said:

you can imagine that this has been suggested even in better places - to no avail for the time being.

Isn't it amazing how responsive the SU team is to customer concerns? I expect we'll have this by roughly the time SU has a direct brain interface driver.

@didier bur said:

Hi,

@unknownuser said:

it will be able to do that

Do you really mean you'll handle non-planar faces ??? 😲 😲
or blend two meshes together with a soft polygonal mesh ❓

It's bezier surface meshes. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=32810
So it'll be able to make a blend between two bezier patches.

Duplicate thread:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=34077

(Please, post one topic only in one forum - whichever you think fits best to the question)