[Bug] older skatter setups with 0.0.5

[andybot]

I've started playing with 0.0.5 version, and I began with loading up a simple terrain I used before. I already had a skatter setup, so I thought I would delete it and start a new one. When I did that, I couldn't make a new skatter, everything seemed frozen. (BTW vray was not loaded when doing this, but don't know if it matters)

part 2: now I tried with a clean file, and was able to pick the area and component, but no preview showed up.

part 3. aack! - 0.0.5 having some major issues for me, can't find any way to get a preview to show up. No skatter showing up in render list, clicking on "area" button doesn't hold down button and I don't get the blue selection thing when I hover over objects. Where do I begin to trouble-shoot?

Edit: part 4 - just checked, 0.0.4 is working properly for me. (minus the scrollbar css edit)

[JQL]

I've also had similar problems.

I've noticed the behaviour could be related to the area's feature for inclusion/exclusion.

It gets more stable if I only use areas for including. If I change area's inclusion/exclusion properties, most times the preview vanishes and when this happens the render is also missing that skatter.

Anther thing I noticed is that if I open a file with a preconfigured skatter, I must Regenerate each skatter so it will show on preview and render again.

[andybot]

area also didn't work for me unfortunately. Couldn't get a preview under any combination of button pressing

[andybot]

Not sure if this is related or not, let me know if this should be a separate bug post: If I don't close out of the SU session and just open a new file, the old skatter setups from the previously open file are still there.

[jiminy-billy-bob]

Any error in the ruby console ?

[andybot]

I only opened the console after things weren't going right. Once I had it open, nothing.

Now that I am coming back to it with a new file, everything works fine. Sheesh!

However:
I did retrace my steps working with a file with a previous skatter setup. The first thing I did was delete the skatter setup from before that shows up in the render list window. There I get an error thus:

Code: Select all

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `delete' for nil:NilClass>
C:/Users/Andy Orban1/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/jbb_skatter/rb/dialog.rb:307:in `block in start_dialog'
C:/Users/Andy Orban1/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/jbb_skatter/rb/dialog.rb:15:in `call'
C:/Users/Andy Orban1/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/jbb_skatter/rb/dialog.rb:15:in `block in add_bridge_callback'
SketchUp:1:in `call'

after that I can't use the "surfaces" or "areas" picker and all the craziness from the above posts ensues.

[jiminy-billy-bob]

Ok thanks. I'm starting my christmas marathon for the next week, so I won't be able to look at this right now. I'll get back to you in time.

[andybot]

Ok thanks. I'm starting my christmas marathon for the next week, so I won't be able to look at this right now. I'll get back to you in time.

no problem, likewise. Merry Christmas!

[jiminy-billy-bob]

So it breaks only whith existing files created with 0.0.4?