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    • R Offline
      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.

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        • R Offline
          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
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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
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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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                                          • PixeroP Offline
                                            Pixero
                                            last edited by

                                            Just wanted to say thanks. I've had this plugin for a while but recently it saved me when doing some remapping of leaves on a highres tree. πŸ‘
                                            Looking forward to the next version.

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