hi ... it's my firs post in the gallery section ...

these works were be rendered 6 mounts ago .. VRAY renderer .. post prossesing by photoshop
...they are not my best works ... just a above normal work ....

it doesn't have perfect texturing nor reflection - bump settings .. but I think its lightening is not so bad ... I will welcome your comments , dear SCF users ..

In the night views , I added a face with emmesive bitmap textured material beside glass of windows . a great time server with OK visual result ( not perfect )
.. I also made some faces above model ( long distance above it ) to simulate shadows of clouds in bird-eye render

night

day

areal view ( bird's eye )

@jorge2011 said:

the.pjt or sdmitch.
This change does not work in my pc. I use sketchup 8 and windows xp sp3.
You can correct this error? really very useful tool

maybe becouse of I'm not a programmer ,I am just a newbie ... It works well on my ms win 8 ,SU 8 M3 .... I don't have any apple device .. ... so maybe it doesn't work on mac , I don't know
and ... It could be better if the author have modified it , not me ... I think he dislikes me ..

dear ThomThom .. Or MR sdmitch .... is it posible to check my editings ? ? I will welcome ...
thanks a lot ...

all of thing that I have done is : just changing line 32 (notepad++)
old :

class RotatedBox
def initialize 
@mod = Sketchup.active_model
@ent = @mod.entities

new

class RotatedBox
def initialize 
@mod = Sketchup.active_model
@ent = @mod.active_entities

and then it creates every thing in active group ... am I wrong ?

thanks feredo ... I hade done that ( 999 ) several days ago .. but I alwase see the ruby image (update check ) at start up .. how about time tracer tool ?

thanks for answer and support ferdo

I wish this features would be done by SU core ... not ruby ..

sorry for main developers .. if they had made a C++ API and compiled extensions .. or a open source program these tasks could be compute much faster ...

but .. thanks a lot dear TIG , ... this is incredible to simulate shadow system in ruby ... thanks for everything , I don't know what is your name and who you are .. man or woman ? , but thanks dear unknown TIG ...

hi dear ferdo , I have a little question ...

.. maybe it's a bad question and I know that it takes much time for you to write these features fur us ... thanks a lot for time you spend and offering your incredible codes freely to us ... thanks ferdo ..
my question is
how to disable time tracer and updater part due to have a faster startup and a lighter SU ?
I'm a ruby newbie .. but you codes are too complex for me to trace .. .. I just wanna to know the .rb files that does these extra works ...

I'm sorry for asking these .. I believe that these parts ( specially Updater module )are very useful for all users .. and thanks for codding these parts ferdo ..

thanks

you are one of the best supporters ... when we want to modify a TIG's code which teacher is better than author himself ?

wow ... you are so fast SAM ... Great plugin ... thanks sam .. and please don't hate me ...

I have updated this loader plugin with lastest versions of sdmitch's plugins

plus my little tweaks : the box now creates the group inside the current active group

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=45923#p410167

download the last version here :

3Pts_Tools.rbz

wow .... thanks thomas .. thanks ... I did it ... hey smitch , Idid it ... I'm not stupid ...

I'm not a ruby master , all I know is to know how to change UI parts of o code .... but thanks thomthom ...
thanks for key knowledge (active_entities)
I changed the " @ent = @mod.active_entities " parametr of this code in the "def initialize " part of it
and it works ... now it creates the box inside active groups ...
thanks ..

dear sdmitch ... I think It could much easier for you ( as a ruby master ) to do that little changes ( just a few charecters : active ) easeir than teaching me how to "cut and paste " ... ... and tou could make us happy with this little change ...

but ... dear sdmitch ,thanks for all of coding you done.. all 282 line . and thanks a lot for making this great plugin and Fulfilling a request from a user ... thanks for all Sam .. thanks for the time that you spent for me

download my edited version ...
Rotated Box.rb
thanks agane thomthom ...
please delet this post if there is any copyright issue ...

I never want you to code for ME .... this is a plugin for all users .. and please don't think that all of your works is for me ...

when somebody used this plugin for making a box inside a group , it makes it out of active group
... and I thought it's better to tell you " it's better to add this in feature ... "
.. I think you hear : " do it , outher wise I will fire you !!!! " ... ok ..

it's better to say : " sorry , I beleve that it should be fixed ,but I haven't enought time , tell your request to some one else " ... instead of " how to Cut and paste " .. isn't it ?

but ... if you to update it in the future please fix it to makes the box in current group ( for outher users not me )

Mr. sdmitch
are you joking ?
cut and paste ???? ... thank a lot .... do you think that I didn't know anything about Cut and Paste !?!?!?!? Am I crazy or stupid ?!?!?
you could also learn me the basis of SU .. how to make rectangle inside group and then Pushpull !! ...
ok .... thanks for teaching .... ... but please don't consider me as a total mindless and stupid person ...
.
.
OK ... but, as you know this plugin should be a time saver ...
And when a user is working trough a group and/or component it takes shorter time for him/her to create a box with a few clicks inside it .. rather than Cut , Set Axes , Paste Set axes agane ... or Rectangle , Rotate , Pushpul , Select , Make group ....
isn't it ??
..

OK ... we will welcome if you do this ... and thanks agane for the time you spent for us and you coddings , dear Sam ...

when we work in a group of group , the box that this plugin makes goes to the model ( upper level in outliner )

OUTLINER VIEW

model ( the box goes here )
.........group 1
..............group 2
....................group 3 ( we want a box here )

hi Thomas ...

is it possible to update these codes to run with your TTlib2instead of TTlib ?!? ... now should install 2 main directories . one of this nice and must-have selection plugin and one for everything else ...

I know that you are so busy .. plus you are doing another projects ( like NUBS plugin ) ... these projects are more important for us and for you ... ... and we know that current version of selection toys works well with TTlib.. but we love to have a cleaned up plugins folder and faster SU start up

thanks thomthom ....

Hi Dear Sketchucators ..

I have Updated This Nice plugin

all I have done is Making a Toolbar and an Icon For this little Nice Ivy Plugin ..
And I also made it an Extension .. So You can temporary disable it ...and then enable it
I have NOT changed Its codes so it's still vr 1.6.3

but you will see 1.6.3.1 version in SU's preferences panel because of these little changes ...

Have a nice day .. and a nice toolbar

DOWNLOAD IT NOW
LiveIvy.zip

important : it's not an a stand alone plugin because it doesn't cautions TEXTURE folder .. you should extract it to your plugins folder and replace its files with existing rubies

oh .... yes TIG .... it was back face ... the blue ... he he ... I didn't know that .. I thought your tools works on every face sides .. and by default I drew a revered face - the back side !! the rectangle tool creates back sided face ...

I did everything I knew to fix it ... !! ... he he .. I completely copy and pasted all my ruby files .. and cleaned up all my plugins ... I rearranged and relocated all my toolbars several times ..

and all of them was useless tasks .. everything was OK ... !! ... he he ...

thanks TIG .. I was so stupid

hi .. TIG ... I have done the JOB and it still failed to compile .. I did it agane plus anything else I knew ,I re download it, re installed it and repaired SU using it's installer to update default .rb files .. , etc

but this plugin still doesn't works for me .. when I use "arrow keys" commands the dialog box is OK and the OK button is OK .. but no more ..

It didn't do its job even in a isolated plugin folder that includes only this plugin and TIG tools .... i'm surprised wht this happens .. but it's happens ..

I have uploaded MY folders whit current situations : this tool in plugin folder and only default files in tools folder ...

i have updated my SU to 8 M3 some days ago .. and there is a question : have you tested this in SU8 M3 ? .... . . . . something is still wrong

textools problem.rar

wow ... thanks sam , thanks

ok ... I will do it now ... wait about an hour plz /// ...

thanks for new vertion mr. sdmitch .... nice update ...

.. waiting for cylinder plugin too

TIG ... I haven't edited plugin ... I'm running original files ... but I opened file with notepad++ because i didn't now the commands to load this plug by counsel .. so I copied that part .. and told you what I have done ...

but .. there is problem ... probably by other plugins with bad programing skills ... maybe in RBS files ...I know my ruby files are good enough ( no sketchup.rb from CADFather toolbars .. a purged plugin folder .. updated scripts , etc ... )
sketchup can't compile TextureTools in these situations ...
and I now that's not an installation mistake ... It works well under isolated situations ...