Saving textures

barry gray

I feel like a real idiot trying to learn this one!
I'm on a Mac/Tiger/SKP6. I can't figure out how to save an altered texture.Once I scale a texture how do I get it saved? I've tried to follow every tut I could find-no luck. Please make your reply "for Dummies", it only took me 3hrs to figure out what "context click" meant.

Alan Fraser

Barry,
All the colours you have in your model will be listed on the In Model tab of the Material browser. From there you can either click the arrow at the top to get a range of options for saving the entire library, or you can right-click an individual swatch and save it as a skm. You can then put that skm anywhere you want. You will find that all your material libraries are simply sub-folders in your Program folder (not sure where on a Mac). Whichever folder you place the skm (SketchUp Material) file in, it will appear in that palette. You can even make a new folder for a new palette and fill it full of customised materials.

barry gray

Thanks for replying Alan,
But so far no go. Maybe a Mac thing or more likely a "Bumble Headed"thing
Here's a step by step of what I need to do:
Fill a surface with a linear texture, Scale and/or rotate texture, save as new texture, fill dozens of other model surfaces without having to scale/rotate each.
Problem: I can "right-click"(control>click on a Mac)anywhere in the mat. Pallet and the only options available are:

New Material- this imports a new mat./texture
Remove
Duplicate- a copy of original
Edit- Allows me to colorize the original and scale all instances of that texture in the model at once, not just selected surfaces.
There is no dialog, that I can find, for saving my new texture.
My Head Hurts!

ridix

Scale / rotate material information can be copied from face to face by using the eyedropper tool. Just sample modified material with eyedropper that appears on Materials dialog box; left mouse button click it. The eyedropper will turn to paint bucket. Than just apply that material to surfaces. You will still need to position it after that though.

barry gray

Bingo!
That'll do it, Thank You ridix!