@cadfather said:

check out the new orbit tool icon.. you don't even have to press the mouse wheel..

You mean this one ?

Oh wait...

@unknownuser said:

Are we going to see a list of what is new soon?

Yeah... Because for now, I see new icons (bigger, actually, so you have less space for toolbars), and a new toolbars window (Which is pretty cool). And that's it !

I hope there are perf improvements, and hopefuly API updates like you say.

What are you trying to tell me ?

Did you try the ply2vrmesh utility ?

@unknownuser said:

I should note that I have been using Onyx Tree and exporting OBJ and converting to meshes right from the ply2vrmesh utility that comes with VR4SU. It lives in the Start / Chaos/ Tools menu.

No, but you have to be licensed to download vismats on ChaosGroup's website.

Only CPU for now.

Nice ! Can't wait to see the whole guitar

http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/vrayforsketchup_beta.html
http://vray.info/news/article.asp?ID=551

@jpalm32 said:

No name, WEB site, no location, NEVER a display of his work, ..

So we can't criticize someone's work unless we do better ?

Next time you see a bad movie, don't you dare criticize it before making a better one !

Mak sure you keep a bitmap in the diffuse slot, otherwise you'll lose the UV mapping.
A bitmap with the same gray color you want, but with the same size as your bump map.

It helps :

• When loading heavy bitmaps at the beginning of the rendering.
• When you run out of memory, and vray has to swap a lot on the hard drive. (It's easy to see, your CPU is not at 100% in that case. It's limited by the HDD)

Thanks a lot, I'll try that.

Hmm, so a class variable in a class ? That makes sense ^^
Thanks for the tip, I'll try that.

Ok, here is a new version.

• Added Toolbar and menu item (Window > Layers Panel), with toggle
• Change things you TT told me : Undo, +operator, filename...
• Deleting layers now work properly. The method is wrapped in my namespace. When a layer has geometry, you are promped to choose to delete the content or move it to the default layer.
• Added a menu for some options. For now you can only purge layers.
• I also don't have bugsplats anymore. Don't know why exactly... If people get some, please tell me.

Still no saving, I'm getting used to ruby before attacking this big piece.

Also, I can't get my WebDialog callbacks to work if the dialog is not in a global variable. I tried local, instance, and class variables, nothing works. What am I doing wrong ?

Layers Panel 0.02.rbz

@high_viz said:

Then I tried sketchyphysics to get items to drop naturally, but I had similar problems with this also. The sweets just hit the level of the top edge of the jar and wouldnt go in

That's because your jar is a concave object. I haven't use this plugin in a while, but I think you need to convert it to a convexhull or something like that.

How to Make Custom Shapes in SketchyPhysics: 11 Steps

(www.wikihow.com)

If I understand ruby classes correctly, I have to rewrite the code, right ?
I can't have something like layer.delete() while keeping it in my own namespace. Am I right ?

@thomthom said:

The snippet that modified Sketchup::Layer

Ho, ok. I assumed TIG's work was clean. But this snippet is actually 4 years old, I guess he wasn't aware of that back then.

Thanks !

@jiminy-billy-bob said:

What's NOT working :

[list][*]From ruby to WebDialog : Real-time rename layer, hide/show layer. Due to limitations of the LayersObserver. I'll need to detect changes either when the webdialog gets focus (But you won't have real-time visual feedback), or every xxx ms.

Actually, it may work. Not with the LayersObserver, but with the EntityObserver, which detects hide/show and rename events.

Thanks a lot TT for your answers and advice ! I'll take a look at all of this.

@thomthom said:

Safest thing is to keep everything in your own namespace.

It thought I did. Can you show what piece of code is wrong ?

@thomthom said:

(note I flipped the quotes)

Is there a reason for that ? It's better that way ?

Layer0

Do you want to be able to sort and nest the Layer0 like any other layer ? Currently, I made it to stay at the stop, but I can make an option for that if people want to, so you would be able to choose Layer0 behaviour.