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ConvSEO & SketchUp / Companion tool for ConvSEO, easily extract DBO objects

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Ratty Rat
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Posted: 18th Jul 2007 16:35
Attached is a small tool, called Sketchup Model Extractor (SME) I have written using ConvSEO which makes the process of extracting Sketchup models to .dbo objects much simpler.

Please ensure you read the SME_README.TXT file included.

I initially wrote this in order to be able to remove the unrequired parts of a model then ConvSEO creates anyway as it has no way of knowing what is of use and what is not. For instance the inside of a box created in Sketchup will often be invisible in the scene but ConvSEO still creates an object for it, usually textured in the default material.

The current beta version loads a Sketchup exported doc.kml file using ConvSEO, it then creates a 'tree' list of all the objects in the model. You can navigate around the scene, select objects, hide them and then save them out to .dbo files, either one at a time or in groups or even whole models. There is even a function to re-fix objects origins as ConvSEO sets all objects origins to 0,0,0.

When a group of objects is exported SME also generates a DBPro source code section which can be used to load them back in and texture them correctly etc.

Hopefully you will find this as useful as I have.

RR

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Mike J
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Posted: 19th Jul 2007 13:08
Ratty,

This type of thing is exactly what I was hoping ConvSEO would lead to. Thanks for sharing your work!

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Mike J

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Posted: 20th Jul 2007 14:05
Amazing tool Ratty,i'm pretty sure many people will be thinking you for creating such a great application!


Ratty Rat
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Posted: 20th Jul 2007 14:22 Edited at: 20th Jul 2007 14:23
Thanks, always nice to get feedback, especially the positive sort

Actually I think I have handled the image saving badly, so look out for an update fairly soon.

I just got hold of the 'World' free world builder, it looks like the two of these together make a perfect partnership.

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Posted: 20th Jul 2007 19:19 Edited at: 20th Jul 2007 19:19
Update to v0.17b here:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gfmcardell/tools.htm

Improvements are:
Texture images now save with their original names.
New option to save multiple objects as a single (limbed) object (thanks to 'Underdue' for the idea).

Thats enough for a Friday, I`m off for a

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Posted: 20th Jul 2007 19:35
Thanks for the update,I shall install Sketchup again too.this will really come in handy.


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Posted: 23rd Jul 2007 14:39
Great, let me know if you find any bugs.

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Posted: 25th Jul 2007 17:22
Great tool! Thanks for the credit, if you need any help just let me know!

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Ratty Rat
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Posted: 26th Jul 2007 17:21
One of those 'now why didn`t I think of that' ideas

I was going to add lightmapping, but I found the free 'World' tool (I think it`s in the program announcements forum) which does it for you, these two tools together with Sketchup make for a powerful world modelling setup.

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Posted: 9th Aug 2007 21:59
Hi! I get a file not found at line 121 error while loading a test object. I've attached it so tell me if you can open it with your app please.

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Ratty Rat
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Posted: 15th Aug 2007 18:35 Edited at: 15th Aug 2007 18:43
Firstly apologies again for the slowness of my reply, mailback just does not seem to work for me!

This model works fine for me, it is a hexagonal tiled box with one edge cut diagonally, a square pushed in and a couple of circles pulled out.

Do you have the 'Axes.x' object in the same folder as the SME.exe file? If not then try re-downloading the full zip file or grab the Axes.x file attached....

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Posted: 15th Aug 2007 20:03
Thanks Ratty, yes axes.x weren't there. Works wonderfully now.
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Posted: 6th Sep 2007 03:13
I love the idea but unfortunetly I can't get my hands on Google Sketchup V5. They only offer V6 for download
Is there anywhere I can still find V5?
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Posted: 6th Sep 2007 10:16
Try this thread:

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=100550&b=31

RR

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Posted: 7th Sep 2007 14:03 Edited at: 7th Sep 2007 14:18
Thanks!
Sorry didn't think to search the forum for that. I did google it though :p

EDIT: Damn, the link on that post isn't V5 anymore
I suppose the offer is over now. I guess I'll juste have to wait for ConvSEO to work with V6. Thanks for making me discover Google Sketchup anyway. I tried a few modelling tools before but they were way too complicated for me :p
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Posted: 7th Sep 2007 14:23
Sketchup is cool, the way it seems to know what you are trying to do, just from the context, is great.

It`s so easy to get going, and yet you can still do some really fiddly and complex stuff too, and all for free!

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