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    • A Offline
      accabrera
      last edited by

      Nice job!

      Big thank you

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        remon_v
        last edited by

        hey guys... I see some arch texturing here. I subdivided my arch in faces and now I want to texture my arch. I could do it manually by rotating the texture but maybe there's an easier way?

        http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b336/remon_v/uv-mapping.jpg

        thnx in advance

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
          last edited by

          If you want to use it for rendering then you're better off creating a unique texture for it. V-Ray doesn't render skewed textures properly.

          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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            remon_v
            last edited by

            oke thnx

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            • GaieusG Offline
              Gaieus
              last edited by

              I think this plugin deserves some further attention and care so I made a little tutorial how you can get the final arch texture nicely mapped on a single face (not a series of facets divided by interior edges).

              See it here (and thanks Thom for this useful plugin again)

              Gai...

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                notareal
                last edited by

                Great tutorial Gaieus.

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  Made some internal adjustments after learning how to get UV data from distorted textures. Bumped out of beta.

                  @unknownuser said:

                  1.0.0 - 15.10.2009

                  * Merge with Mirror UV.

                  * Correct sampling of UV data. Distorted textures now works.

                  * Mirror material speed increase.

                  Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  • GaieusG Offline
                    Gaieus
                    last edited by

                    Thanks - updated my plugin folder!
                    πŸ˜‰

                    Gai...

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                    • thomthomT Offline
                      thomthom
                      last edited by

                      Did some experimenting today.
                      Came up with a method that would texture selected quad-faces using a curve as a quide.

                      At the moment it requires strips of quad-faces, and the guide has to be a welded curve. But before I release it I want to make it so it doesn't require the edges to be welded.

                      Then, after the first release I'll see if I can extend it beyond being just strips of quad-faces. Maybe even make it texture triangulated quads.

                      Anyway - here's the WIP shots. Whatcha think Gaieus? Something for you? πŸ˜„


                      UVMapping01.png


                      UVMapping02.png

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                        notareal
                        last edited by

                        Looks good!

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                        • jeff hammondJ Offline
                          jeff hammond
                          last edited by

                          whoa, that's definitely something i'll be able to use.. (and this is heading into the direction of the type of UV functionality i'd actually need in SU)

                          in this example, it looks like it would work great along the top area as it's flat.. what about the curved areas near the bottom? (i drew this with a lot less segments for representational purposes.. an actually drawing would still be all quads though each one would be much smaller)


                          uvquestion.jpg

                          dotdotdot

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            As it is in it current state you'd have to select each row by it self. Your top row is no different from the lower ones except it got larger faces.
                            But I hope to be able to make it cascade through connected rows, but it'd still have to be quad-faces. Quad-faces are just so much more predictable.

                            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                            • jeff hammondJ Offline
                              jeff hammond
                              last edited by

                              @thomthom said:

                              As it is in it current state you'd have to select each row by it self. Your top row is no different from the lower ones except it got larger faces.
                              But I hope to be able to make it cascade through connected rows, but it'd still have to be quad-faces. Quad-faces are just so much more predictable.

                              right, i realize that each row is the same.. i'm just wondering if everything will line up through those bends?

                              right now in SU, i can get basically two results:
                              UVing2.jpg

                              on the left if i just import and paint it on.. the right if i turn on hidden geometry and sample/paint each quad.. i'm really hoping for something more like the middle but not necessarily on a sphere. (that's done with whaat's UVtools)

                              are you thinking you may have come up with a way to do this?

                              [EDIT] -- ouch.. and i just remembered if i want to render that sphere in indigo and have it turn out correctly, i have to triangulate the faces first. i'm wondering what would happen with these quads that aren't part of a sphere.

                              dotdotdot

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                              • thomthomT Offline
                                thomthom
                                last edited by

                                @unknownuser said:

                                are you thinking you may have come up with a way to do this?

                                Like this?
                                UVMapping03.png

                                @unknownuser said:

                                [EDIT] -- ouch.. and i just remembered if i want to render that sphere in indigo and have it turn out correctly, i have to triangulate the faces first. i'm wondering what would happen with these quads that aren't part of a sphere.

                                Could you triangulate after mapping?
                                I think I should be able to deal with triangulated quads - but it won't be the first to be implemented.

                                Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                • EscapeArtistE Offline
                                  EscapeArtist
                                  last edited by

                                  Oh man, this made texturing some of the stuff I do so much easier.

                                  Thank you! πŸ‘ 😍

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                                  • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                    jeff hammond
                                    last edited by

                                    @thomthom said:

                                    Like this?

                                    ha, yes.. exactly like that

                                    @unknownuser said:

                                    Could you triangulate after mapping?
                                    I think I should be able to deal with triangulated quads - but it won't be the first to be implemented.

                                    actually, yes.. i just tried it but i have to triangulate manually after mapping.. previously, i tried using the triangulateFaces ruby by TIG but it screws up the mapping if i do it afterwards.. i just assumed doing it manually would create the same problem but no, it works.

                                    dotdotdot

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                                      ygcl
                                      last edited by

                                      @frederik said:

                                      Thanks,
                                      @unknownuser said:

                                      πŸ‘

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                                      • GaieusG Offline
                                        Gaieus
                                        last edited by

                                        Thom, great stuff so far! In my basilica, there was an arch in which there was literally hundreds of bricks. Even with the UV toolkit, it needed a lot of manual "quading" of the faces. 😲
                                        (and there were like 7 different sizes so you can imagine that day I was making them). πŸ˜†

                                        Gai...

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                                        • majidM Offline
                                          majid
                                          last edited by

                                          maybe adding a "goust preview" of how plugin is going to UVmap (i.e. showing a sphere when choosing shepherical...etc) could improve the ui!!


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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            @majid said:

                                            maybe adding a "goust preview" of how plugin is going to UVmap (i.e. showing a sphere when choosing shepherical...etc) could improve the ui!!

                                            mm? I got no spherical mapping option.

                                            As for the mapping types I do have, I don't have any API to draw texture previews.

                                            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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