Is there a way to lock a material in place?

ActionPink

I have been trying to create a 2D person in sketchup using a tutorial that I found in the warehouse. To create the person, I have created a material using a photograph, painted a surface with the material, and then outlined the image of the person. After deleting the surrounding surface, I am left with a great looking image of a person in 2d, however, I can not move the object around because the material does not stay in line with the outline of the person. I have tried "creating a component" and selecting "always face camera" but this seems to automatically mess the whole thing up anyways. Is there a way to lock a material to a surface? Is there another way I can create a 2D person in sketchup without using photoshop or another image editing program? Thanks!

remus

Hmmm, thats strange, usually making it a cimonent should work. Any chance you could post the model?

Wo3Dan

@actionpink said:

I have been trying to create a 2D person in sketchup using a tutorial that I found in the warehouse. To create the person, I have created a material using a photograph, painted a surface with the material, and then outlined the image of the person. After deleting the surrounding surface, I am left with a great looking image of a person in 2d, however, I can not move the object around because the material does not stay in line with the outline of the person. I have tried "creating a component" and selecting "always face camera" but this seems to automatically mess the whole thing up anyways. Is there a way to lock a material to a surface? Is there another way I can create a 2D person in sketchup without using photoshop or another image editing program? Thanks!

%(#008000)[When importing an image in SU to:

'Use as image', then explode or
'Use as texture'
the texture is fixed to the face it is on.]

However when painting anything straigth from the material browser then the texture is fixed to the unrotated/untranslated origin. (the original one)
Most likely you painted using an already imported picture.
%(#4000FF)[Also:

Sampling from fixed texture to apply to another face results in also fixed to the new face.
Sampling unfixed texture results in unfixed texture on the new face.]

%(#008000)[Just right click on the texture > select 'Texture > Position' from the context menu > immadiately rigth click on the texture (tiles) again and select 'Done'
Now the texture is fixed to that particular face.]

(Note: this does not apply to painted groups or components as a whole)

Wo3Dan