Here is the current state of the destruction:

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@pixelcruncher Thanks,

The model came out of Sketchup pretty much as is, I did add a few tears in the window area of the mesh to help sell the impact.

The actual impact animations were done in Blender. I used Blender's Cloth sim to do the mesh bending, I added Quick Explode on the windows that were directly hit by the asteroid, and for those that were not directly hit, I added another cloth sim that, because of low vertex count it just twisted and popped them apart.

This was my first attempt at doing something like this. It was actually pretty easy to apply the animation tools, but It took me parts of tree days to sort out the settings. I want to add a smoke sim to simulate dust and debris coming off the asteroid, but I still haven't worked out the settings for that yet..

For texturing I use the "Color" layer image of the final texture in Sketchup, In most cases I am able to leave the UVs as they are imported into blender, and just add the other layers when I set up the textures in blender. (Metallic, Rough, Bump, etc )

One of the scenes in the story has an asteroid ripping through the bridge of the Achilles. so I'm testing it out.

I believe Sketchup has a place in film... In front of the camera!

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@ntxdave
Imported into Blender and used the Cycles renderer. Took some tinkering with the shaders and UV unwrapping to get this though. There is a real nice importer for SKP files, which means I don't have to export first.

@Rich-O-Brien said in Hidden Temple:

Behind the door is a perpetual license for SketchUp 2025….

So working on Importing SKPs into blender, The plugin that's available works great! I just cleaned up the shaders in blender after the import.

Renders:

Using these as possible assets in a short movie I've been working on since Vers 8..

@tig said:

v4.2.4 is now available through the PluginStore ...
It fixes the UNzip error when installing RBZ files in v2017/18...

Back in business! (was also able to manage the new Fredo licensing too.)

Thanks so much Tig for your tireless service to the Sketchup community.

(I still use the Octane Loader plugin you created some time ago - best tool to get an OBJ file out. )

Steve

YooHoo, this worked:

url = URI.parse("https://pluginstore.sketchucation.com/pluginserv_4.php?hwid=DESKTOP-FF79A08;21&c=ntxMmAO2R7gcBFz6NbKPAzA7HheR8MKz8ILtSlzyreb7sYBJAZkKXxQnf7HlTfkdy9aSxZRoC6z9f0RotFCECg6rmM&v=5.0&z=PurgeAll.rbz")
path = File.join(SCF;;TEMPDIR, "PurgeAll_v5.0.rbz")
p RBZtool;;GOT_OPEN_URI
File.open(path, "wb"){|f|
  url.open {|r| f.write(r.read) }
}
true
2794

V17 uses Ruby 2.2.4. is the 'open' Method part of URI Class then?

@tig said:

Thanks for these reports...
So we know it's downloading from a URL OK.
Can you copy/paste all of this into the Ruby Console.
Report any error messages and if the RBZ in the ../Temp/SCF folder is > 0kb !

> url = "https://pluginstore.sketchucation.com/pluginserv_4.php?hwid=DESKTOP-FF79A08;21&c=ntxMmAO2R7gcBFz6NbKPAzA7HheR8MKz8ILtSlzyreb7sYBJAZkKXxQnf7HlTfkdy9aSxZRoC6z9f0RotFCECg6rmM&v=5.0&z=PurgeAll.rbz"
> path = File.join(SCF;;TEMPDIR, "PurgeAll_v5.0.rbz")
> p RBZtool;;GOT_OPEN_URI
> File.open(path, "wb"){|f|
>   URI.open(url, "rb"){|r| f.write(r.read) }
> }
> 

Open the ../Temp/SCF folder and see if the downloaded RBZ is there - should be ~3kb

this is what is returned on both machines:

true
Error; #<NoMethodError; private method `open' called for URI;Module>
<main>;4;in `block in <main>'
<main>;3;in `open'
<main>;3;in `<main>'
SketchUp;1;in `eval'

yes 0K file in folder

I did see an interesting thing though, when I ran it through Chrome. It reports "https://pluginstore.sketchucation.com/" as insecure but it allowed the download too.

maybe a certificate issue.

@tig said:

A folder permission issue is possible, BUT we see that the downloaded RBZ is getting created in ../Temp/SCF subfolder but its contents are not written.
Seems to me something is preventing the URL data from arriving...
Please copy/paste this code into your Internet Explorer [Edge] web-browser bar and report what happens...
https://pluginstore.sketchucation.com/pluginserv_4.php?hwid=DESKTOP-FF79A08:21&c=ntxMmAO2R7gcBFz6NbKPAzA7HheR8MKz8ILtSlzyreb7sYBJAZkKXxQnf7HlTfkdy9aSxZRoC6z9f0RotFCECg6rmM&v=5.0&z=PurgeAll.rbz

The file was downloaded into my download folder.

@tig said:

Something about your set up is preventing the effective download of the RBZ into its temp-folder.
Do you have a firewall ?
Are any of its settings likely to prevent 'sketchucation' [or plugins?] linked URLs from downloading etc ?

Over the months we have had some rare reports of this happening, but are still searching for a cause...

About a year ago, I was having this issue on one of my computers, but was able to get it working again for the C:/Programdata?... folder but not the user local folder making me think permissions issue, but have played with that a little with no luck... (Unfortunately I cannot remember what I did before)

On the second computer it was installed a few weeks ago and worked fine up until a few days ago (I did get a windows update in that time frame though.

Reviewing the firewall... I'm not really seeing any settings that would cause suspicion for me, any thoughts on settings that might block a download? Anyway I turned it off for testing, and no difference seen.

@rich o brien said:

Hi,

Can you clear your Microsoft Edge browser cache?

All installs fail or certain ones?

All installs I have tried fail, (including ExtensionStore )

I cleared all browser Caches, no love...

Good Afternoon all,

I'm getting the 0 size RBZ download error for the extension store plugin on both of my win 10 computers with Sketchup make 17 installed on both.

using v4.2.3

Console output:

SCF;;TEMPDIR
C;/Users/Steven/AppData/Local/Temp/SCF
RBZtool;;GOT_OPEN_URI
true
RBZtool;;GOT_RUBYZIP
true
SCF;;TEMPDIR
C;/Users/Steven/AppData/Local/Temp/SCF

I see the file come into temp/SCF folder, but with 0K size. Resulting in the UnZip Error message

IE is not installed on these computers

I am able to install RBZ if I download and use Sketchup's built-in Extension Manager.

Note: There are two locations I can install to, If I use the one associated with my user name ../appdata/Roaming/.. folder it uses the ../temp/SCF folder for the initial download. if I try to install to the c:/ProgramData/.. folder, it does not seem to use the /SCF folder... as I never see it there.

thanks,
Steve