[Plugin] Component Spray Tool 1.3.

[Didier Bur]

the GE Snapshot (which is a horizontal face on 0 z axis) would stop the trees falling under i

Yes. The ruby "raycast" method don't care of hidden layers or entities (no way to get rid of this). You should make a component of your GE snapshot, save it outside your model, delete it in the model, spray your trees, and bring the GE snapshot component back afterwards.
Regards,

[Gaieus]

If you unlock it and cut it,you can insert it into another model with the Edit > Paste in place command. At the end you can bring it back in the same way to make it sure it is really at the same place.

[Chris Fullmer]

Any thoughts on my requests Didier? Look back a few posts. Especially the first one. It's really important to my workflow. Would it be possible to include? Thanks for looking,

Chris

[Didier Bur]

Yes, it is possible to include your requests, but you'll have to be patient
I'm on a huge project now and I'm afraid I must leave my freebies as they are for a couple of weeks...

[Chris Fullmer]

Oh I can be patient I just wanted to make sure you saw my thoughts and would see if they were good ideas or useless. Thanks for looking at it Didier, you're the best!

Chris

[sbthomas]

Gaieus & Didier;
Using your suggestions I have been able to overcome the issue of spraying in the valleys of GE snapshots. The process is as follows:

Get GE snapshot
toggle terrain
save-as "snapshotname"
unlock terrain
explode terrain
edit>copy terrain
file>new sketchup project
edit>paste-in-place
insert component
spray component
delete terrain
import saved snapshot
place model back to GE

thanks again for your help.
STAN

[Gaieus]

Hi Stan,

In order to make sure your original terrain remains intact,after the step where you copy it,you can just undo the steps in the original model (the copied version will remain on the clipboard and you can use the paste in place command in the new model to spray the components).

[thomthom]

This is one of my absolute favourite rubies. I just detailed a large terrain model with 4000 trees in no time. I would never have gotten such a rich detail to it manually.

[Chris Fullmer]

Hi Didier, I have found that this script is conflicting with progressbar.rb, and therefore crashing all scripts that are using progressbar (makefaces in particular!, but I found the problem while developing my own script). There is a pb.update() method in the progressbar that seems to not work so I'm guessing that is where the conflict is - but I could be WAAAAY off. Thanks Didier!

I was wondering if anyone else could confirm this?

Chris

[thomthom]

Does it make use of the disable UI argument for .start_operation ?

[Didier Bur]

Does it make use of the disable UI argument for .start_operation ?

No.
Is there still a conflict with progressbar ?
I changed the class and methods names to get rid of any conflict in the latest version released.

[thomthom]

It'd be interesting to see what speed this plugin worked at with the SU UI disabled. Any chance of an updated version?

[Chris Fullmer]

Is there still a conflict with progressbar ?

Nope! It is working great now with progressbar. Thanks for fixing it so quickly too,

Chris

[milfot]

Wow, this plugin is fantastic!!

Much appreciated... i am off to build a forest.

[denna003]

THAnk you very much!!!!

[AcesHigh]

Didier, is this the last version of your tool?

Can I make a suggestion? It seems the altitude option is too "hard". I mean, I think you could add some dialogue to add a % of chance that components will spray below and above the maximum altitude. That way, they will concentrate on the set altitude, but some of them will spread casually beyond (unless you set the chance of that happening to 0%)

[tomislavm]

Thank You!
Where in Croatia?

[madhav]

Thanks a lot

[Didier Bur]

Where in Croatia?

Pisak, that's 40kms South of Split and 20kms North of Makarska.

[tomislavm]

Nice place for vacation!

[alsenhawk]

Thank you,that's what i m looking~

[arjunmax09]

Didier thanks for your efforts!
One can get interesting things with new vertice mode.

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But there's bug in vertex+no to keep vertical . It's not working (see lonely cylinder over mesh, in all other cases components stay vertical)
To "keep vertical" unchecked will result the component to be placed vertical to mesh, it'll work this way, right?
P.S. I'm not programmer (my wife is- it's enough for one family) but you're one step from "spray along vertices of curve" ?
P.P.S. Do you shine in ruby field only or there are some lisp routins of yours?

hey!!! how did you create the cool DNA model man???!!!... i mean the perfect spiral thing... which plugin did you use???

[Didier Bur]

Hi

Do you shine in ruby field only or there are some lisp routins of yours?

I was used to code in Autolisp years ago, and now I'm learning Javascript along with Unity3D.
Regards

[arjunmax09]

didier... your compo spray is interfering with the progressbar script.. any improvements you've made to compo spray so that it doesn't do the progressbar thing??

[Didier Bur]

Hi

any improvements you've made to compo spray so that it doesn't do the progressbar thing?

I though I had done this several monthes ago, but just in case see page 1 of this thread and download the latest version. The spray uses its own progress bar class named "sprayprogressbar", so there should not be any conflict with other plugin(s).
If the problem persists, not my fault anymore
Regards,

[arjunmax09]

um.. didier ... there's no ruby file in the latest update... there's one rbs file and one pdf file... where did the plugin go man...??? The rbs file is in the following folder.....

Utilisateurs\Bur\Exercices\Ruby\Component_airbrush

checked both the english and french versions.. both the archives contain the same files....please help...

[Chris Fullmer]

.rbs is a plugin. It is the extension put on encrypted plugins.

Didier, we are running into problems where it appears that this script is breaking progressbar again. I know you fixed it up perfectly quite a while ago. did it revert back somehow to a version that no longer works? Or do you think that it should still be working correctly and that perhaps it is something else messing up progressbar? Any thoughts?

Chris

[maymay]

I get an error when SketchUp starts:

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Error Loading File compo_spray.rb
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/compo_spray.rb:1: no .<digit> floating literal anymore; put 0 before dot
RBS1.0
     ^
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/compo_spray.rb:1: syntax error
RBS1.0
      ^
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/compo_spray.rb:1: Invalid char `\030' in expression

Any ideas? I'd really like to try this out.

Thanks!

[Didier Bur]

Hi,

Hem, hem, it seems we have some problems with the scrambler now...
I've uploaded the latest RB version, in which there's NO progressbar class. I suppose there's a conflict with another plugin than this one.
Sorry for the inconvenience with the RBS.
Regards,

[rangrstudio]

Hi I'm trying to install this on Mac with Sketchup 7.
The compo_spray.rb is in the Plugins folder, but I'm not seeing it in the plugins menu. Have reinstalled SKP 7 from scratch, then unzipped the zip file in the plug-ins folder per instructions but nothing.
Is it not mac compatible?

EDIT: I tried it on a windows machine (XP with SKP 7) and I couldn't get it to work there either. The zip contains "compo_spray.rb" and the pdf file. Is there something missing? Thanks for any help.