@fakircho said:

I gave the UV tool a try and it works ok but i am getting some weird issues.
See attached, any ideas why it is doing that ?

Looks weird....are you using spherical or cylindrical? I would suggest using cylindrical. Also...what is the scale of your object? The plugin might fail on faces that are very small so try increasing the size of the object.

@unknownuser said:

New method for a texture, very useful for exporters.
texture.alpha_channel? -> (true or false)

Ooohhh..that reminds me:

How about a method that samples the texture color on a face?

face.color_at(u,v)->returns a SketchUp::Color object.

Could be used for displacement mapping inside SketchUp for example.

Thankyou, Solo.

And..thankyou to all the legitimate owners of the SubD and Smooth Plugin. The success of the plugin has exceeded my expectations and inspired me to continue putting in huge amounts of time and effort to deliver more quality plugins to the SketchUp community.

Dale

@crc said:

Anyone have more of an update on this? Whaat?

(actually it's probably giving the exporter writers time to catch up with the newest releases of Indigo, but I still miss checking it everyday)

Hey crc,

I talked to Ono on Sunday and he said he still working on the site (slowly...) He is getting some help from a friend but it definitely seems to be taking a long time.

I haven't been working on SkIndigo but I HAVE been trying to update the tutorials (among other things... )

Whaat

This is quality work Fredo. Thanks very much!

I have received the tutorial from Redot. Thanks everyone.

Hi,

Can someone please send me a copy of the SkIndigo advanced tutorial? I lost my backup of it and the Indigo site is still down so I can't download it.

Please send me a PM if you have it. Thanks.

I read somewhere that the UVs for a texture that is applied to a group or component are multiplied by the texture size. That would explain the odd range in UV coordinates. Try dividing them by the texture width and texture height values.

Thanks! I was needing a plugin like this. Do you happen to have a reference for the mathematical methods you used?

this issue is fixed in SkIndigo 1.1.12 which you will be able to download once the Indigo site is back up. Try using Indigo 1.0.9 and SkIndigo 1.0.9 for animation until this is fixed.

I emailed Nick yesterday and am waiting for a response. I will let you all know what he says if he responds. Did anyone get a chance to download the new beta SkIndigo 1.1.12? I released it a few hours before the site went down.

@pixero said:

Thanks for a great script.

Would it be possible to add an attribute to all the existing scenes in the model that they are "keyframes" and then add scenes for every frame in the animation with an attibute that they are "inbetweens" and add scene transition times according to your smoothstep script.
The script should then be able to delete all the "inbetweens" if you want to change the animation but leave the "keyframes" intact.
I believe this would make it work with external renderers.
What do you think, is it doable?

That's a cool idea and definitely doable! I'll do some experimenting.

Sorry for the delay in releasing this plugin. I've been on holidays and working on other projects. This plugin allows you to smooth out the jerky scene transitions in a SketchUp scene-tab animation. It is not intended for object animation, only native SkechUp scene animation. It cannot be used as-is to export to a rendering engine.

Usage:

1. Copy 'smoothStepAnim.rb' to 'Plugins' folder as usual.
2. Notice two new self-explanatory items under 'Plugins' menu
3. Plugin can export single frames only. The images must be joined into a movie format using other software (eg. VirtualDub)

Issues:

• All scene delays must be set to 0.0 seconds
• likely more lurking...I have not tested very thoroughly. Please post bugs.

Enjoy!

Dale

smoothStepAnim.rb

you need to explode them. Only the faces inside the component you are currently editing will be cut.

it has nothing to do with the plugin. The plugin must set the camera aspect ratio (Sketchup::Camera.aspect_ratio=)

If the camera aspect ratio has been set, you will get black bars. You can only do this with Ruby, not with the SU interface. To get rid of the black bars, you have to set the aspect ratio back to 0.0 (default)

Cheers

Thanks Todd and Fredo. very useful info

@unknownuser said:

• check and raise errors on bad input values

What is the proper way to do this? For example, let's say I define a method that takes a SketchUp::Face as an argument. Should I be checking at the start of the method if the argument is the correct class and is valid? Should I be using Ruby Exception classes for situations like these or is there a simpler way to do it? Can you please give an example of proper error handling style for an API? Thanks

@kwistenbiebel said:

Hi Whaat.
Any progress on this plugin?
Just asking as this feature is useful to a lot of people (including me ) .

hi,

the plugin has been 'almost done' for a couple of weeks now. I haven't been working on it much. It just needs a bit of 'clean-up' and testing before I can release it. This is what the plugin can do (just so there are no false expectations):

• View a SketchUp slideshow using smooth transitions between scenes
• Export a SketchUp slideshow (as a sequence of still images) using smooth transitions between scenes

The plugin cannot be used to export a smoothed animation to a render engine. Sorry!

awesome!

Excellent work, Teezer! and thanks for posting the tips!