@rickw said:

@khai said:

erm there's something on the camera controls page that kills my Firefox. something about a C library not loading correctly.

Which page? The Smustard page or the webDialog?

the Smustard page
I had to use Chrome to get to it in the end...Fire fox complains about the loading and locks out.

erm there's something on the camera controls page that kills my Firefox. something about a C library not loading correctly.

oh thats nice
thank you... everything I've tried is coming in fine now

tried that Chris, no go.

with some OBJ's they are just not importing for some reason.. I've sent an example to TIG and I hope he can figure out why...

@silver_shadow said:

i bought this cool plugin, scene exporter, and this allowed me to set up a main model, and the made 3 separate files with portions of the model in.

what plugin was this? I use the same workflow in other apps so being able to do so in SU....

thats the problem.. I'm not getting any errors (unless I'm doing something wrong the console window is remaining blank).... I'm just not getting the object...

the steps I'm getting :

select Ruby
Select OBJ
asked what unit's. (choose at random here)
Status bar shows the lines being read

here on a file that works I see the OBJ loaded. on a file thats not working, the view jumps, nothing is shown.

asked if I want to flip axis. (y/n)

no change in scene from start. - this also happens if I choose Metres or kilometers with an OBJ that does work ok. (obj will load as Feet...) the affected OBJ's will load with Jim's original script tho shrug

ok.. where do you want me to send the files to? I can't seem to attach them here...

ok I'm getting strange results here. some OBJ's just won't import for some reason. Trying to figure it out atm.. the affected OBJ's will load into other app's ok tho, so I'm not sure what the issue could be.

Update.

the affected OBJ's import with Jim's Ruby ok (apart from flipped Axis and no UVmapping), so it looks like a bug somewhere..

want me to send you a copy of one of the affected OBJ's to test with?

and I'm happy to report the UVmapping is now spot on

yup it's metres and kilometres.... looks like it's coming in so tiny you can't see it. (Inches, Feet, yards, Miles, Millimetres, Centimetres are working ok)

ok for some reason I'm not getting anything at all.
it's asking for the measurements, I see it reading lines at the bottom, it asks me if I want to flip Axis...then nothing appears on screen.

edit : testing an idea. I think it's do to with the choice of measurements. hold on...

'I draw things' ..... that simple really...

ok it does look like Noscript's to blame... but when the site is allowed through. then firefox locks up trying to load something on the page.

tried this on 2 machines, same result so far..

chris as I said, I'm not suggesting a pack on offer.

more like a thread saying : ok, you've just got Sketchup and you've found out about Ruby's that you can add to it.

here's some that you'll find useful :

Fredoscale : <link>
Multiface push/pull : <link>

like that you see. the Visuals good, and when I first started I raided it.. but without knowing what I was doing and what I should have started out with.. which led to reinstalling and starting over when I had a plugin list longer than my forearm and no idea what I actually had and menu bars out the wazoo...

I've been guiding some friends here to learn SU and this got me thinking.

we have a lot of Ruby's to add in now.. but no what I would call "the Essential Pack" - those Ruby's we would consider as should be part of SU in the first place and put in straight away. ones like Fredoscale etc.

now I'm not saying we put them all in 1 zip to download. I mean basically a thread titled say 'Ruby's Start Here' and then the list of links.

(I know there's the visual thread but I mean more of a 'this is what you should have')

'Dear Sir,

as you are aware and it is undoubtly an oversite on the part of your accountant, the following request for payment is overdue.

I have regretfully forwarded this to Big Lenny, who will be visiting soon with the boltcutters....'

I think it's stored as the VT entries.

ah yes here we go

http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/obj/ - Full OBJ Format Spec

@unknownuser said:

vt u v w

Vertex statement for both polygonal and free-form geometry.

Specifies a texture vertex and its coordinates. A 1D texture
requires only u texture coordinates, a 2D texture requires both u
and v texture coordinates, and a 3D texture requires all three
coordinates.

u is the value for the horizontal direction of the texture.

v is an optional argument.

v is the value for the vertical direction of the texture. The
default is 0.

w is an optional argument.

w is a value for the depth of the texture. The default is 0.

yup UV information is a core part of the OBJ Format.. makes it very useful for transfering between programs, such as Maya to trueSpace to Max....

okies the Swap Z/Y is working perfectly

the sizing is not atm (tried importing OBJ's from trueSpace, UVmapper and Hexagon) it's almost there tho...

Edit

Thanks to the notes inside the Ruby I was able to reset my units to Metres and now things are coming in the right size

@tig said:

Here's v1.1
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=172790#p172790

Existing Materials re-used/make variant option added.
Swap Y & Z axes ? Yes/No, option added.

thank you!!!!!!!!

hmm a suggestion for a future release would be the option to swap the Z and Y axis on import.