[SOLVED!] automated material creation for huge batches?

radorn

OK so I have these 2705 bmp textures I want to have as sketchup materials in a custom collection.
The idea of manually adding them one by one doesn't seduce me, as you may guess.
Anyone know how to solve this? some tool out there? anything?

mattritzman

It's not the most elegant way, but I'd use this program, AutoIt (Windows only):
http://www.autoitscript.com/
It is allows you to script repetitive actions that you'd perform through the GUI. I like it for two reasons:

It is straight forward and easy to learn.
It works on top of any program.

Jim

radorn,

there is a plugin called massmaterialimporter.rb that may help.

Daniel S

There is an old program made by one SU user that worked very well.
Now I tried it with SU7 and creates the .skm but dosen´t apply the texture in SU... is strange.

The ruby console says:

Error; #<NoMethodError; undefined method `attribute_dictionaries' for nil;NilClass>
C;/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/SkIndigo_1_1_15.rb;2044;in `initialize'
C;/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/SkIndigo_1_1_15.rb;3611;in `new'
C;/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/SkIndigo_1_1_15.rb;3611;in `onMaterialSetCurrent'
C;/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/SkIndigo_1_1_15.rb;2044

Perhaps is not the place to put this... but i attach an example of the .skm that dosent work. I cant attach the program because of SCF rules and i cannot find a link to the original creators program.
It`s an executable Jar file, so if anyone knows how to program and correct this program send me a PM.
It will be very usefull for all.

Daniel S

.skm file not working

radorn

Thanks to all. problem solved

@Jim:
That plugin worked like a charm. I have all textures imported now. Saved me hours of tedium.