Exported Images - Textures Distorted

bordominc · 17 Sept 2008, 21:13

When exporting images from SketchUp, textures that I've created using images are coming out distorted. Has anyone come across this?

Example of export and screenshot attached...

Thanks!

Gaieus · 18 Sept 2008, 05:26

Hm. It seems that that back face is triangulated for some reason. Could you try to right click to the faces where that triangulation is then go Texture > Projected. Now try to export to se if it makes any difference.

If you cannot access the texture item in the context menu, turn on hidden geometry (View menu) first.

matteo · 18 Sept 2008, 05:54

Which format did you use to export it?
You have to see what settings are available when you export a model.

I had a similar problem when I exported a building to vue d'esprit as 3ds object.
I've learned that the best settings for what I need are these shown below.

Then check if you are able to configure how you export your model (it depends from the format chosen).

/matteo

Gaieus · 18 Sept 2008, 06:15

Well,

@bordominc said:

When exporting imagesfrom SketchUp

Now I'd presume that would mean 2d raste images - but of course cannot be sure (I've heard/read people mentioning models as images).

matteo · 18 Sept 2008, 06:53

@gaieus said:

Well,

@bordominc said:

(I've heard/read people mentioning models as images).

doh! sorry, I'm one of them. Forgive my approximative English.

bordominc · 18 Sept 2008, 13:57

I am exporting 2D images. I've tried every image format as well as several different sizes.

I tried making the texture projected, but it's still distorted when exported.

I have also imported images instead of using them as textures and those export fine. It's only the textures that have this problem.

Thanks for your help!

matteo · 19 Sept 2008, 17:31

Now I remember I encountered the some problem about 2 years ago when exporting some hi-res images for print. It happened that some surfaces come out triangulated, with a wrong oriented texture.

I believe it was a memory problem. There is a resolution limit, when exporting a picture, that depends from the amount of your memory. When you reach this limit, sketchup is not more able to export an image.
My opinion/experience is that when you get near to this limit, the output may be somehow weird.

A workaround I've found was to move slightly the camera and retry to export the image. Sometimes it worked. Other times a "broken" face come out good, but some other face was weird.

In most cases I had either to reduce the resolution of the image output, or edit it in photoshop to correct such strange output.

/matteo