[Plugin] [CityGen] - Core [WIP] (0.1.3a) — 19 September 2009

[thomthom]

The Core:

citygen folder
city_gen_loader.rb
These goes into the plugins folder.


Street Gen

street_gen folder
street_gen.rb
These goes into plugins/citygen/modules/


I don't know why any of these would be causing crashes. I've not experienced it myself.

[thomthom]

The plug-in is not really ready for use, but I made a Windows installer for the current version.

That's interesting. What did you use to create that?

[Jim]

Inno

http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

[Foun10Head-X]

Thanks, thomthom et. al. I managed to get it running smoothly.

What I did was searching through Google and there was an Alpha installer of CityGen, but it froze my SU -- but (d'uh on my part ), I "forgot" to put the city_gen loader.rb in the plugin, the CityGen in the Citygen folder and the streetGen in the modules your stated... To make a long story short - it was a real bumpy ride, no pun intended.

Thanks guys for all your help. I'll keep playing with this feature.

[Foun10Head-X]

The plug-in is not really ready for use, but I made a Windows installer for the current version. See the Downloads tab:

http://code.google.com/p/citygen/

Note: both the plugin and the installer should be considered experimental. Let me know if it works.

Yes, I did do that, and what I did I installed it, but it was the old version, and I had to uninstall it. And used thomthom's zip files.

Thank you jim.

[foleypro]

Awesome work folks...

[utiler]

Hi Guys, I've been trying to make time to spend playing with this plugin so I loaded it and intend to give it a whirl ovber the weekend...
a few things:
I loaded it OK but not really sure how you are assigning color to lines: is that by material or layer?
Also, when I run the plugin the dialogue activates and goes blank. [see attached screen shot]

Looking forward to giving it a run!!

[Foun10Head-X]

not really sure how you are assigning color to lines: is that by material or layer?[see attached screen shot]

Looking forward to giving it a run!!

Wondering the same thing too.

[utiler]

Here is a screenshot, thomthom. Any ideas?

Many thanks,

[thomthom]

What Windows, SketchUp and Internet Explorer versions do you have?

[utiler]

Win 7, SU 8.0.4811 and Firefox 3.6.15....

[thomthom]

Win 7, SU 8.0.4811 and Firefox 3.6.15....

No - not what browser you use, what Internet Explorer version is installed? SketchUp use the Internet Explorer engine for the windows we can create with the Ruby API. The Internet Explorer engine is used by many application in similar way.

[utiler]

Buggered if I know, Thomas!! What should I have installed to make it work more to the point..... Then I'll go work out what I need to alter....

OK, back in the office now.... downloading IE 9 as i didn't have 8 loaded. maybe that was the problem... I'll see if it works now.
thanks Thom.

[utiler]

OK, IE 9 loaded and still the problem is apparent....

[utiler]

Thom, I have IE8 64bit loaded on my PC. Would this be conflicting with it?

[thomthom]

Sorry for the delay - I've been away in Dubai for a week.
So you got IE8 or IE9 ?

[utiler]

Thanks Thomas, I heard you were away...
I uninstalled IE9 9 because it said that a Flash plugin was not yet available.... So I'm left with IE 8 [64bit]

I tried it on my laptop [Windows XP, 32bit, IE 8] also and got this as a result of running Street Generator:

[thomthom]

StreetGen.png

There's your problem. It's not installed correctly.
CityGen and StreetGen is a very experimental project - it has some special extra installation requirements.

See the installation notes of this thread in the first post.

[utiler]

Thanks Thomas!! Neat little tool....

One thing: When you 'Define Types', the New / Edit / Delete functions do not seem to provide any options. [see attached]

Questions:

1. How does color get assigned to street types?
2. The resulting road system creates an interpolating line which is hidden. Is there a way to be able to create the face as a whole so if you need to pushpull you only need to select on face...?

An idea:
1. Is there a way to include merging lanes such as acceleration and deceleration lanes? Maybe byway of color....? Break a line where the lane widens to two and color differently.....

Anyhow, thanks for helping out getting it loaded. I've been asked to collaborate on an Urban Renewal Proposal so I hope to give this a try for it!

Cheers,

[grakeskull]

HI HOW ARE YOU, THIS PLUGON IS GREAT I JUST HAVE A QUESTION. IS THERE ANY WAY THAT I BE ABLE TO GENERATE BUILDING TOO? THANKS...

[thomthom]

@Andrew: Sorry - I've yet not been able to look into this. I've gotten a leak in my ceiling I'm currently trying to deal with (along side my full time job)

HI HOW ARE YOU, THIS PLUGON IS GREAT I JUST HAVE A QUESTION. IS THERE ANY WAY THAT I BE ABLE TO GENERATE BUILDING TOO? THANKS...

Chris and Jim was working on a building module - though I don't think anything is released.

[utiler]

No worries Thomas. Sounds like you need a Plugon.......

[mpowell1234567890]

Hi, I tried installing this plugin like what the instruction said in the readme file

Plugins\city_gen.rb <- Core CityGen file
Plugins\Gity_Gen\street_gen.rb <- Core Street Generator module file - loaded by city_gen.rb
Plugins\City_Gen\Street_Gen\ <- Street Generator's support folder

But, I still get the File cannot load error "Even the file is in the correct folder".. Is there a way to fix it?

This plugin is a work in progress. It's made public because it is a collaboration project.
This is in it's very early beginning, so lots of things will change, and lots of bugs are to be expected. Feel free to share your ideas or join in on this project. See this thread for the discussion of the overall project. This thread is an overview of the related modules and the development thread for the core files.

CityGen - Core
Core and Installation Check
This is the main file that centralise information and load the other modules.
Modules are located in Plugins\CityGen\modules\.

Please remove any old CityGen installations prior to installing.

Menu entry is located under the Tools menu. Should this be under Plugins you think?

Modules

• Street Generator

For Module Developers
Core and Installation Check
You can add this code to your module to check if the core is installed and that the module is installed in the correct location.

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### CORE & INSTALLATION CHECK ### ------------------------------------------------------------------
# Core check
if not file_loaded?('city_gen.rb')
   if Sketchup.find_support_file('city_gen.rb', 'Plugins') == nil
      UI.messagebox('The CityGen\'s core files is missing. Install the required core files.')
   else
      UI.messagebox('The CityGen\'s core files is not loaded. Ensure you installed this plugin correctly.')
   end
   raise 'CityGen Core error.'
end
# Correct installation check
if Sketchup.find_support_file('City_Gen/' + File.basename(__FILE__), 'Plugins') == nil
   UI.messagebox("This module (#{File.basename(__FILE__)}) has not been installed properly. It should be installed under Plugins\\City_Gen\\")
   raise 'CityGen Module path error.'
end

module City_Gen
   module Some_Module
      # stuff
   end
end


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# CHANGELOG
# 0.1.0a - 31.05.2009 (Thom)
#       * Initial build.
#
# 0.1.1a - 31.05.2009 (Thom)
#       * Change in the module error checking routine.
#
# 0.1.2a - 31.05.2009 (Thom)
#       * Added version constant.
#
# 0.1.3a - 31.05.2009 (Thom)
#       * Updated to the new file structure for use with Tortoise.


[thomthom]

You're missing the full path. Observe: Plugins\CityGen\modules\

[stuartmitch]

Guys,

I hope someone can help.

I have loaded City-Gen (correctly, I think!).

When I attempt to use the plug-in (for example when I click on Tools > City Generator > Streets > Define Types, I get a pop-up box stating that "This program cannot display the webpage".

I am not sure the plug-in would be attempting to connect to the internet.

Any advice, please, on how I might be able to fix this?

Cheers....Scotty

[thomthom]

Under what OS? OSX? I see your profile says you use OSX and Windows.

There might be an issue under OSX - due to an Safari update that happened after this plugin as made.

[stuartmitch]

Thomas,

thanks for taking the time to respond.

The problem I have exists when I am using Windows 7 OSX. I haven't tried it on Mac as yet.

Not sure if this helps, but my file set-up is

plugins > city_gen_loader.rb
plugins > citygen > city_gen.rb
plugins > citygen > modules > street_gen.rb
plugins > citygen > modules > webdialog > ......

Many thanks again for the help.

Cheers....Scotty

[thomthom]

hmmm


If you open the Ruby Console before you try to use the tool? do you get errors?

[stuartmitch]

Thomas,

there don't appear to be any error messages in the Ruby Console related to Citygen. Sorry!!

Cheers....Scotty

[thomthom]

hmmm... this is strange...