A texture of squiggles or footprints (feetprint?) should be easy to make tileable. And textures, like the SketchUp sky on glass, are already repeatable. [image: trans6.png] (You can see here, it repeats from left to right, and top to bottom) I could superimpose two repeatable textures by finding a least common denominator, and adjusting the width one a but if necessary. For instance, if I was imposing a Sky with a 5' repeat width onto a tile pattern with a 2' repeat width, I could either create a 10' texture - with 2 skies and 5 tiles already repeated, Or, when there is not an easy answer, I could stretch one ot the other - 3.g. stretch to sky to 6; and repeat 3 tiles per sky.

Interesting, same end result I got. However, I never ever did (knowingly) a projected texture, and I have no idea of what use it really is. I just played around a bit and the simple fix is to bucket (re)paint the distorted faces from the materials drop-box, not from entity info, as I had always done before.

Hi TIG, thanks for the tip. @tig said: Bear it in mind for next time... That's the big problem! Often you can't remember on the name of the corresponding plugin. I think many of us will have the same problem. I have to create a list with small notes for the plugins that are used less frequently. Charly

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=359994#p359994 SolidSolver ?

Hi, Fredo's is pointing out the load errors from other rubies, it's meant to... the errors are all SketchUp example rubies. It looks to me like you moved those out of their folders... Do you have a folder called Examples? in the plugins folder, if not make one and put those into it, except ocean ruby which should be in Ocean folder if you do have 'Examples' folder you could try changing it to 'examples' i.e. lowercase. failing that... if you put the example.rb into the Examples folder [both are in the plugins folder] that will stop the messages. also do the same for ocean_extension.rb into Ocean folder... if your trying to learn ruby [which is what they are really for] load them from ruby console and see what errors you get then. or it may be a Lion issue... john

@unknownuser said: Popeye's really let himself go. Hey, this is one of my good days

Thanks!

Thanks Gaieus, this plugin I had completely forgotten.

In case of this particular material, probably a simple, planar projection would work well. Can you post the file? (That pipe would just do).

Thanks Dave, much apppreciated.

You can split plugins to different sketchups by runing more than one. check out tip 5 5 tips in runing more than one sketchup http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=40254 set; one for input/output one for creating objects one for color and textures one for animations one for no plugin for large file layouts of objects one for optional efferent uses

Well no. Is that like Fortran? Kidding aside, we will talk. It seems this ideas could use some help from Ruby. Peter

@beavie said: I've been searching through the ruby scripts looking for something that maybe makes broken lines whole? I don't want to import into vectorworks, then have to manually remove all broken lines... time consuming... Have you looked at "Remove Lonely Vertices"? http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=37619&p=332047&hilit=remove+lonely+vertices#p332047 Use it as you work and when you export.

Maybe treat it as a tablecloth, to drape, so to speak, and model it upside down. Mindful that the dangling portion will need to be cinched up, or gathered. Now, I am thinking that you may approach this like modeling a teardrop. That suggests that you could start with a basic Sketchup UV sphere or a Geodesic sphere as one element, extend it, or stretch it, or scale it upward, form a 2d profile resembling gathered fabric, progressively/ sequentially pushpull and scale for a "few" reps, then tie a rope around it when you get tired. That's probably what I would try, without getting into plugins.

indeed! when they disabled this in the "upgrade" from SU7 free to SU8 free, I was a mite disappointed Was very relieved to find this ruby.

Thanks for the advice decided to stick with many components and groups as sometimes will also use max to model and alter parts of building. Found that using a script to clear missing bitmaps and unused materials helps with the multi subobject materials problem. May in future try using colour by layer in Sketchup and doing my texturing in max.

I already replied to you here - http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=358742#p358742 There's no need to double-post

Thanks to everybody! You're great as always!!

Also look for my TextureTools which allow you to Rotate/Scale/Position any texture on a selected face either by typing in an amount OR by using the arrow keys... Search the Plugins Index...

Here's ***SuperDrape*** that does what you want in one step... http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=358314#p358314