Exterior siding

steve6 · 27 Feb 2009, 14:56

Does anybody have any ideas to make realistic siding in Sketchup? There's one in materials which is O.K., but I'd like to find something more realistic.

bubbalove · 27 Feb 2009, 16:23

You could sign up for FormFonts. They've got a lot of great textures there...

remus · 27 Feb 2009, 18:50

If your handy with photoshop you'll probably find something you can use here: http://www.cgtextures.com/

Might take a bit of searching though.

steve6 · 3 Mar 2009, 17:24

Thanks, everybody--those are great, but i don't think they will work for what I need!

What if I drew a sample wall with 3D siding I constructed--could I somehow turn that into a material which I could apply in various projects?

hebrides · 3 Mar 2009, 17:38

Show us what you need and I am sure a solution will appear.

steve6 · 3 Mar 2009, 18:40

This is the general idea. Is there a way to turn this into a material to apply to a wall?

sidingsample.skp

xrok1 · 4 Mar 2009, 00:52

no, but you could make it into a component, then attach it to walls and scale it.. although you'd need to cut out the doors and windows everytime.

well just a minute, one pain in tha ass option would be (in a seperate file) to scale it to your wall size with wall orientation and shadows set the same, then either render or export 2D depanding what you're doing. then import the (render or 2D file) into SU as a material and put it on the coresponding wall. But hey, you asked for it.

xrok1 · 4 Mar 2009, 01:24

it looks like this:

its not a bad idea actually! a type of long hand texture baking.