Aw: [Radiance-general] RE: Sketchup exporter script

[tbleicher at arcor.de]

Terrance McMinn wrote 
> Hello All,
> 
> Thomas you have made an excellent contribution to the radiance community
> with your SketchUP exporter. I assume this script would also work with
> the free Google Version of SketchUP as well. That software was of
> limited use to radiance modelling as it did not have the 3DS converter
> available in the PRO version.

Yes, of course. There would be no motivation for me to write a script
that doesn't work on the free version. But from the Ruby point of view
both versions are identical. 

> A point here, for the Google SketchUP (free version) users would be for
> the user to manually modify the 'sky' file for location and orientation
> as that option works differently from the PRO version of SketchUP.

I am not aware of different settings between the two versions. The script
uses information stored in the 'location' and 'shadow' settings. You can
modify the sky appearance in SketchUp but I do not use this information
and don't even know if it's accessible via scripting.
 
> To this effect a couple of extra comments in the 'sky' file for the
> novices would be useful.

I can certainly add a few comments ...

About the interface 'design':

Sketchup has a very limited but simple dialog toolbox which is what I'm using
right now. It looks odd but it does the trick. More soffisticated dialogs are
possible with DHTML (JavaScript - the 'tip of the day' is an example for that)
but I won't start working on that before I have a good idea about which options
to present. And I have to be sure someone out there needs it because it would
be useless for me.

Regards,
Thomas

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