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[Plugin] GhostComp - v1.4a - 31 Oct 18

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    fredo6
    last edited by fredo6 28 Aug 2009, 07:19

    INFORMATION: there is a new extension, called FredoGhost, which provides a more generic and customizable framework for Proxies. Here is the main thread for FredoGhost . Note that FredoGhost supports only SU2017 and above.


    **%(#008000)[# Permission to use this software for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted

    Distribution of this software for any purpose is subject to:

    - the expressed, written consent of the author

    - the inclusion of the present copyright notice in all copies.]**

    Please UPGRADE to this latest version 1.4 if you run SU 2018.

    http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=49290

    The concept behind GhostComp is to associate a simplified version to a component (called Ghost). Then the script provides an easy way to switch back and forth between the Ghost version and the Real version in the model. The idea is that in many situations, switching heavy and complex components to their Ghost version would make the model view lighter to manipulate during the design phase (for orbiting, copying, etc…).

    Note: I just realized that the concept had been introduced independently, but earlier, by AdamB, under the name of Proxy, in his LightUp plugin. So, I wanted everyone to know.

    This is an experimental concept, and frankly, I don’t know if it really fits any practical design workflow with high-poly models. If it does, then I think it should better be implemented in the native Sketchup application than in Ruby (if the Google SU team has time of course).

    In version 1.1, the ‘simplified’ Ghost version can be generated as:

    • the Bounding Box of the top level component(so just 6 faces)
    • the Bounding Boxes of the top level component and its subcomponents, hierarchically
    • a Wireframeof the component
    • a Simplified copy of the component(keeping a limited number of the largest faces)
    • a Frozen copy of the component(useful before performing poly-greedy transformation such as RoundCorner or Subdivide & Smooth)
      GhostComp modes.jpg

    Under the cover, GhostComp uses a hidden layer to maintain copies of the original components and their Ghost versions. Unfortunately, as there is no way to hide component definitions, you’ll see the Ghost component definitions in the Component browser. Note that GhostComp does not touch, modify or delete the original components.

    http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=49286

    GhostComp - Quickcard - English - v1.1 - 27 Nov 13.pdf
    Just drop the attached PDF file into the SU Plugins directory to have it accessible from within Sketchup.

    • Sketchup: v6 to SU2018 – works better with v8 M2 and above
    • Platform: Windows and Mac
    • Language: English, French, Chinese
    • Menus: by default, it is installed in Tools > Fredo6 Collection > GhostComp
    • Icon toolbar: by Default ‘Ghost Comp. At first installation all 10 icons are shown. You can then configure which icon you wish to include in the toolbar from the Default Parameters…).
      GhostComp native toolbar.png
      There is an alternative toolbar by DJMX1
      GhostComp - toolbar by DJMX1.png
    • The plugin is free, for private and commercial usage. There is a donation menu however.

    http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=49287

    There are now multiple ways to install scripts

    • SCF Plugin Store (SU8 and SU13) - recommended method
    • Unzip (all SU versions and for installations in an alternate Plugins directory)
    • Extension Manager with RBZ files (SU8 and SU13)

    Whatever way you install, you must end up with the following footprint:
    GhostComp - Footprint.png
    The standard SU Plugins root directories are:
    Windows SU8: C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins
    Windows SU13: C:\Program Files\SketchUp\SketchUp 2013/Plugins
    Windows SU14: C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\SketchUp\Plugins

    Mac SU8: Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/Plugins
    Mac SU13: ~/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2013/SketchUp/Plugins
    Mac SU14: ~/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins

    CAUTION: NEVER rename or move files from their folders. If you are unsure of your unzip operation, do it in a neutral folder and check that you reconstruct the right footprint. Then transfer the folders and files to the SU Plugin Directory.

    http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=49285

    If you run SU8, SU13 or SU14, the strongly recommended installation method is to Autoinstall with the SCF Plugin Store tool .

    Otherwise, you can download the GhostComprbz file from the Plugin Store page for GhostComp .

    IMPORTANT: Requires to download LibFredo6 8.6 or higher if not already installed

    **Note for SU6 and SU7 users, download the rbz file from the plugin store page , and change its extension from .rbz to .zip
    Then:

    1. Open the zip archive
    2. Select All (Ctrl A)
    3. Extract into the Sketchup Plugin Directory
    4. Answer YES to OVERWRITE all existing files if any
    5. Make sure you get the correct footprint (one rb file and one folder)**
      CONFLICTING PLUGINS: some plugins conflicts with some of my scripts
    • Some versions of Podium
    • SunPosition
    • Matchbox

    http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=49284

    Here is a video showing GhostComp in action.
    [flash=425,344:2zqt7gcv]http://www.youtube.com/v/XZqTEQuEoLk&hl=en[/flash:2zqt7gcv]

    http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=49289

    GhostComp 1.4a – 31 Oct 18: Maintenance release and certification SU2018

    GhostComp 1.3a – 13 Nov 15: Maintenance release

    GhostComp 1.2a – 20 Oct 14: Release for non-ascii usernames

    GhostComp 1.1a – 27 Nov 13: Release for future Sketchup Compatibility

    GhostComp 1.0a – 26 Nov 09: Initial public release

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      Khai
      last edited by 28 Aug 2009, 07:23

      thankee 💚

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        howardhong
        last edited by 28 Aug 2009, 07:27

        VERY big,big thanks.

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          nomeradona
          last edited by 28 Aug 2009, 09:10

          ha! to help SU with viewing efficiently and quickly whne having all this heavy components... clever. thank u.

          visit my blog: http://www.nomeradona.blogspot.com

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          • Rich O BrienR Offline
            Rich O Brien Moderator
            last edited by 28 Aug 2009, 09:17

            Thanks Fredo,

            This is a great plugin and i've looked forward to it since the video went up on Youtube. Finally i get to use it and it rocks

            rgds
            Rich

            Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp

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              DJMX1
              last edited by 28 Aug 2009, 09:26

              Super plugin fredo. merci.

              Par contre la transformation en fil de fer, ou la dégradation progressive, sont très longue dès que l'objet dépasse les 200ko (voir même plantage !)
              Si tu as une solution.

              J'avais fait un post sur le bounding box, et je ne sais pas si toi tu est capable de le faire, j'aurais voulu un plugin qui me permette d'activer une vue type
              bounding box, comme quand le fichier est trop lourd et que sketchup dégrade l'image en remplaçant les objet par des bounding box. C'est pas la même utilisation que GHOSTCOMP, et ça m'aurait bien rendu service.
              Dans l'attente. @+

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                MALAISE
                last edited by 28 Aug 2009, 12:40

                Fantastic tool, for huge projects

                Merci Fredo, I try it this evening

                MALAISE

                La Connaissance n'a de valeur que partagée

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                  fredo6
                  last edited by 28 Aug 2009, 13:03

                  @djmx1 said:

                  Par contre la transformation en fil de fer, ou la dégradation progressive, sont très longue dès que l'objet dépasse les 200ko (voir même plantage !)
                  Si tu as une solution.

                  Wireframe and Simplify options are rather for components that are not too complex, but would be repeated hundreds times in the model.
                  In this version 1.0, I did not optimize the generation of Ghosts actually, as my primary goal was to understand whether the concept would be useful.

                  @djmx1 said:

                  J'avais fait un post sur le bounding box, et je ne sais pas si toi tu est capable de le faire, j'aurais voulu un plugin qui me permette d'activer une vue type
                  bounding box, comme quand le fichier est trop lourd et que sketchup dégrade l'image en remplaçant les objet par des bounding box. C'est pas la même utilisation que GHOSTCOMP, et ça m'aurait bien rendu service.
                  Dans l'attente.

                  You can generate a Bounding Box Ghost for all objects (do a Select All before generation). The problem is to have a view where Ghosts are activated while in other views they are not.
                  This again underlines that it should be the SU Team integrating this type of dual appearance concept in the native Sketchup application. In Ruby script, there are too many limitations to make something clean, fast, safe and transparent to the model (i.e. without creating tons of hidden components, use a hidden layer, ...).

                  Fredo

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                    kwistenbiebel
                    last edited by 28 Aug 2009, 13:27

                    Fantastic Fredo!!

                    This is a plugin I will use very often (always?). finally a way to keep on editing those high poly scenes (trees, etc...).
                    I agree that a feature like this should be standard SU stuff, but I am glad you made it into a plugin.

                    Thanks. Much appreciated

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                      notareal
                      last edited by 28 Aug 2009, 13:56

                      👍 A keeper.

                      Welcome to try [Thea Render](http://www.thearender.com/), Thea support | [kerkythea.net](http://www.kerkythea.net/) -team member

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                        ideas_arte
                        last edited by 28 Aug 2009, 15:54

                        Wow !!!!! did not the boys at Google, you did!

                        Greatly appreciated, I will be testing and commenting

                        Thanx!! Thanx!! Thanx!! Thanx!!
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                        Greetings.

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                          pilou
                          last edited by 28 Aug 2009, 19:48

                          Bigre 😲 ☀ 😎

                          Frenchy Pilou
                          Is beautiful that please without concept!
                          My Little site :)

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                            Whaat
                            last edited by 28 Aug 2009, 22:29

                            Another winner Fredo! I had a similar idea once but never got to implementing it. I also wanted to mention that I have been using your Round Corner script lately and it is incredible! Great work!

                            SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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                              fredo6
                              last edited by 29 Aug 2009, 08:25

                              @whaat said:

                              Another winner Fredo! I had a similar idea once but never got to implementing it. I also wanted to mention that I have been using your Round Corner script lately and it is incredible! Great work!

                              Thanks Dale. It shows that the Google SU team should have a closer look to what they could do natively in the Sketchup application, as this could be a useful complement to their quest for high-poly support.
                              Fredo

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                                urgen
                                last edited by 29 Aug 2009, 13:03

                                ...thanks FREDO!...briliant! 👍 👍 👍 😄

                                --pupil forever...------

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                                  Pg09
                                  last edited by 30 Aug 2009, 05:04

                                  Thank You!

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                                  • StinkieS Offline
                                    Stinkie
                                    last edited by 30 Aug 2009, 07:20

                                    Oooh, this one's going to come in very handy indeed. Thanks!

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                                      wsms
                                      last edited by 30 Aug 2009, 10:26

                                      it works really good!
                                      this function shall be put in a new version of su

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                                        erikB
                                        last edited by 30 Aug 2009, 16:14

                                        Thanks Fredo for this very handy pluging.
                                        Much appreciated ! 👍

                                        greetings, erikB

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                                          DJMX1
                                          last edited by 30 Aug 2009, 17:50

                                          je poste mon petit pack d'icônes pour GHOSTCOMP. J'ai fait ça pour moi et je partage.

                                          http://img2.pict.com/16/93/89/1543527/0/ghostcompv1.png

                                          prendre les icônes et les copiées dans le dossier "IMAGES_Standard" du plugin GHOSTCOMP
                                          http://www.box.net/shared/gv8ooblvog
                                          🤓

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