Nope I wont to able to take an extract, of the whole scene (or part of the scene depending on the circumstance), and automatically edit the whole thing in Photoshop/gimp, and then it would automatically apply new textures onto the geometry. Not editing one by one by it self.

Its more like, screenshot, edit the screenshot and then applying the textures in photo-match.

Is there a plugin that would open up an image of whatever is displayed on screen, in photoshop/Gimp? Allowing you to hand paint/texture on the extract from sketchup in Gimp/photoshop, upon saving it would automatically project the textures onto the model.

Something similar is done in Sculptris/Zbrush.

It would be useful, if it was possible to turn off the axis snapping and edges snapping. Perhaps have different toolbox that would enable you to turn of different snapping depending on the situation.

Anyone got a new link to this plugin?

@pgarmyn said:

@masterpaul
You have it if the view direction (line between camera and viewpoint) is perpendicular to the sectionplan, with camera switched 'on'.
Any face perpendicular to the view direction is represented without (perspective) deformation, and they will have the same scale if they are in the same perpendicular plan (= same distance).

Yeah, your right, I I didnt set my model to be aligned to the axes, it was slightly off.

@mitcorb said:

The first thing that comes to mind is to make a copy of the front face, get a front view, File Export 2d Graphic, save as png or jpg. Insert the image back into the model and arrange it perhaps as you have shown.
I am sure this is not what you mean, and there could be a way to do this that I am not aware of.

I think it would require true control over the 2 point perspective... or Perhaps maybe even a 1 point perspective.

So I want the cut section to be in parallel view (completely flat and to scale) however I wont the rest of the building to be in 2D perspective. Is this achievable and how?

I think it should be possible to achieve this just by using two point perspective; but no matter what I do I wont get the desired effect.

Thanks in advance.

@dave r said:

Seriously? I just showed you it was a simple thing to put grid over a photo like you asked for.

Ha ha I know its quite simple, but I discovered a better presentation that is closer to what I originally intended So I dropped the grid entirely

@dave r said:

Well, I used the Line tool to draw the grid.

[attachment=0:2hxjphht]<!-- ia0 -->Grid and Photo_1_1.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2hxjphht]

The grid you can choose to display though Document Setup can't be put on a layer but you can draw one in a few moments.

Ill think I'll skip the grid entirely.
Its quite really remarkable how they didnt give us an option to add an image for the background in the document setup.

@dave r said:

It's easy enough to draw a grid and put it on a layer higher in the list than the image you import.

But how?
The grid is set up in the document setup.

Is there anyway of adding a background image to layout without having to paste a background as an image and then scaling it?

I want to have a background image but also the grid on.

@adamb said:

@unknownuser said:

Amazing!

Allways the same technic ? Precalculated lights of the scene then walkthrough ?

Yes, but more features!

LightUp can do GPU-based realtime lighting (like Lumion etc),or you can bake the lighting. It really depends on what you want.

Also added a simple raytracer embedded inside the Preferences dialog which can give you a quick preview thumbnail without needing to run the whole lighting process:

The dull sounding "No Backface culling" is pretty neat too. You may want to model with backface culling (ie just showing Front faces) but when it comes to plants and foliage in particular, it looks horrible to 'lose' half your foliage. Enabling "No Backface culling" for that Group means you get the density but keep the performance.

By bake you mean, that the lightning and colour information is saved inside the model itself? No need for lightup to be turned on?

If this works with texture.... omg.

Edit1:

Downloaded.. works well, one step closer to baked lightning in sketchup. However I wish I could bake the lightning on to textured surfaces. This plugin has the potential to be amazing.

Ill run a few tests and post them here

Edit 1:
Plugin crashes a lot on 10/10 settings. On a light geometry model.

Edit 2

Well the plugin crashes on models other then simple boxes, it also has problems with curves. I guess it still needs a lot of work.

@box said:

Sorry, it's beyond my tiny mind then.

I love that avatar.

@mac1 said:

On my machine the shadow selection is different if I select it form the view menu vs the window shadow selection. When I have the ruby script examples extension de-selected in widow preferences/ extension it will not show if I select from the view menu but will from the window menu. Maybe worth a try??
The dark / light setting show in the windows menu drop down

I reinstalled sketchup, redownloaded it with with my antivirus deactivated and installed it ; everything works fine.

Every time I installed with the previous installer; the shadow panel settings never appeared.

Im gonna try re-downloading the install file, perhaps my virus software corrupted the install.

@box said:

Do you use multiple monitors, if so it may be appearing off screen. You can try Window/Preferences/Workspace reset workspace, sometimes this will bring it back, or if you have changed the screen settings recently you may need to go hunting for it by moving your screens around.
I believe tig also has a registry setting that will reset it.

My computer had a a reinstall of windows recently, it always used the same screen (never used a 2nd screen). I did try to reset the workspace however it didn't bring it back. (The box in the menu isn't even getting checked when I click on it)

I really don't know what's happening, no matter what I try my shadow panel is not being triggered. I'm running Sketch-up 13.0.4811 on Windows 7 64 bit. Shadows work fine, but I just cant trigger the setting panels. Tried reinstalling it but no hope. I might be missing a dll or something (maybe).

Is there a plugin perhaps that gives access to the dark light settings?

Reg:

Edit: I accidentally posted this in the layout section. Forgive me I haven't slept all night.

@jeff hammond said:

it's a choose your poison type of scenario..

the move tool in sketchup is really sweet in the way it puts many operations on one tool without cluttering it up.. it's Move, Copy, Multiple linear array, divisible linear array, and a rotate tool all in one..

on other apps, those will likely all be separate commands in which yes, they will more likely remember the last variable entered.. they'll likely be more powerful as well in individual command form but there is a tradeoff in overall program simplicity and the way sketchup's move tool works fits right in with the rest of the sketchup concept..

with a single tool stacking multiple options, you can't necessarily expect it to remember the last entry.. because what happens if i want to use it to array an item then the next time i want to use , i want to simply move an item?
that would be a problem..

pretty much the solution, as i see it, would be to program a separate array tool which will remember it's last state.. but to me, if using sketchup, i'd rather just use the move tool and enter measurements on a per use basis.
ymmv

Its either a separate array tool, or an tool which runs parrellel to all other tools which you can simply activate with a checkbox or something.

How hard is it to learn ruby?

@rich o brien said:

I think what you're after is Repeat Command.

EG -

Select an object, move it 18', then array it 5*

Now if you use Repeat Command on the next selected abject it will perform the previous set of commands.

Similar to a Photoshop Action.

Yeah something like that.