Jim: yeah. a lot of the footage looks from 3dblasphemy (transformer truck, city background, ...) but the part with mspaint on the wall and dynamic lights sure looks good

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/11/liveplace-to-launch-photo-realistic-virtual-world-rendered-in-the-cloud/

just

stop peeking on my HDD !

as you cannot change the SU material window I was playing with a separate window.

also added some openGL viewport to use that shaders that are in your gfx card that are sleeping in SU.

agree with Adam - using entityID sometimes makes you chase dead horses. better using hashes even if there is a slight time penalty.
hope there will be a fix in future SU versions

if you check the enum.c (Ruby C code for Enumerable class) you will see that only each_with_index is there and each_slice
is part of ext/enumerator.c

you need to require 'enumerator' to be able to use each_slice

one idea, if you are on Windows (dont know about Mac) - use win32api and load xerces-c_2_6.dll that is available with Sketchup distro

you can try build a SketchUp portable using vmware thinapp (formerly thinstall) - see screencast on how to do it here - http://www.thinstall.com/demos/vs_beta_intro/

pitty that it costs a lot of money, but it has a 60 days demo

I didn't say anything about exploding. if you will do that test you will be able to see what the problem is and code accordingly.

@unknownuser said:

group-before-setting-material-case they are just random large numbers

if a face exists in a group there are two possibilities:

• default material -> will use the group material with simple planar UV if exists, otherwise default front/back color
• has material -> will use the material with it's UV data

if you have a group with all faces default and no group material (or parent if it is nested) then ignore the UV

try and apply a 1m x 1m texture on :

• a face 1m x 1m
• a face 1m x 1m inside a group
• on a group that contains a default 1m x 1m face

you can check your code on this and see what is wrong (usually inside a group there is wrong units).
I use also http://bgdm.katorlegaz.com/lscm_tute/Tute_Images/UV.jpg as test texture to see when it has wrong direction

hmm, tried with SQLite3 using Native driver and it worked (it "hangs" SU until the SQL commands are finished as usual)

here is my directory structure - copied some files from Ruby install that are required by SQLite and you need SQLite.DLL from SQLite distribution (it is not shipped with sqlite3 ruby):

[copied from Ruby install]
\Plugins\susqlite\date.rb
\Plugins\susqlite\parsedate.rb
\Plugins\susqlite\rational.rb
\Plugins\susqlite\time.rb

\Plugins\susqlite\date\format.rb

[SQlite3 files]
\Plugins\susqlite\sqlite3.rb
\Plugins\susqlite\sqlite3_api.dll
\Plugins\susqlite\sqlite3\constants.rb
\Plugins\susqlite\sqlite3\database.rb
\Plugins\susqlite\sqlite3\driver
\Plugins\susqlite\sqlite3\errors.rb
\Plugins\susqlite\sqlite3\pragmas.rb
\Plugins\susqlite\sqlite3\resultset.rb
\Plugins\susqlite\sqlite3\statement.rb
\Plugins\susqlite\sqlite3\translator.rb
\Plugins\susqlite\sqlite3\value.rb
\Plugins\susqlite\sqlite3\version.rb
\Plugins\susqlite\sqlite3\driver\dl
\Plugins\susqlite\sqlite3\driver\native
\Plugins\susqlite\sqlite3\driver\dl\api.rb
\Plugins\susqlite\sqlite3\driver\dl\driver.rb
\Plugins\susqlite\sqlite3\driver\native\driver.rb

pitty that it BSOD on me (it kills the display driver) and I was unable to even start it. anyone tested on 8800GT/Vista ?

don't blame Windows for poor programming of a software - the White screen of death is definitely a SU problem.
also you don't need drive the CPU to the max only for your software - I choose a responsive UI anytime than 5 second faster, unresponsive one.

the fastest and hard way is to put puts around your code to inspect your code.

I usually code the things independently of SU so I can use existing Ruby debug tools and only add SU related at the end.

worked sometime ago on a SU debugger using SKSocket and a pre-Webdialogs interface. maybe I should revive the project.

the only problem is that you cannot take the standard shadow
a workaround is to do it yourself, as Adam did it in LightUp. (and looks better than standard one)

@unknownuser said:

getting the pixel (RGB) value from the texture at a given point. If anyone knows how do this, let me know.

some ideas:

1. convert texture to .raw and read it via ruby file commands (as I did it in 2004 Terolscript)

2. direct image parsing - too complicated (several formats, compression)

3. server based - image upload to server, converted to an Array and returned back to Ruby

if you select open and un-check "always ..." still has the problem ? usually this appears when MIME setup is wrong

1. yes - high risk to redefine other scripts bad behaviour
2. yes - this way you can have your own namespace and dont clash with other classes

API creation tips:

• documentation + examples - think that every SU Ruby developer started with box.rb
• 80/20 rule - provide a small number of methods that do most of the job
• check and raise errors on bad input values
• verify everything - if it can go wrong, it will
• have another pair of eyes check the code - if you stay too much on something you will overlook things

good luck and let us know if you need any help

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