[Material] Bubinga (wood)

Dave R · 22 Aug 2010, 11:14

Here are a couple of Bubinga materials I did up. They are not seamless but real wood is not seamlessly tileable, either. They are both 9 feet long. For smaller projects, if the material is applied to faces you can pick different parts of the board to use much as you would in shop. You should be able to texture a small table with these two materials with no repeats in the texture.

This one is about 13-3/4 in. wide.

This one is about 9 in. wide.

When I add materials to SketchUp, I draw faces sized to the known dimension(s) of the material and apply the new images to those faces. No need to edit the the material after import.

Gaieus · 22 Aug 2010, 11:54

@dave r said:

When I add materials to SketchUp, I draw faces sized to the known dimension(s) of the material and apply the new images to those faces. No need to edit the the material after import.

That's a good strategy I also use.

And nice woods, thanks Dave!

Dave R · 22 Aug 2010, 12:18

Thanks, Csaba.

I have more that I need to prep. I might share some of them as well.

Gaieus · 22 Aug 2010, 12:20

Good wood materials are always welcome!

dale · 22 Aug 2010, 14:04

Thanks Dave, I can definitely use this. Nice figure.

Dave R · 22 Aug 2010, 14:27

Dale, you're the first person ever to tell me I have a nice figure.

dale · 22 Aug 2010, 15:34

Someone must, because mine has sure deteriorated

dale · 22 Aug 2010, 16:39

Are you doing these yourself Dave? (no more figure comments ..Honest)

Dave R · 22 Aug 2010, 16:46

Dale, they're from images I've collected. They are raw wood and might stand a little more fine tuning

dale · 22 Aug 2010, 17:40

@dave r said:

Dale, they're from images I've collected. They are raw wood and might stand a little more fine tuning

Hell, I'll just run them through my thickness sander

Dave R · 22 Aug 2010, 17:42

That'll do it. I guarantee they are free of nails so you could even plane them and not worry about knicking your knives.

Jean-Franco · 22 Aug 2010, 18:53

Nice textures Dave !
Thanks for sharing

fastech370 · 22 Aug 2010, 23:00

Thank You Dave, I haven't been on for awhile. I'm designing a router table in SU now. I haven't used materials before but will experiment and see what I can do. Jerry

Dave R · 22 Aug 2010, 23:10

Jean-Franco and Jerry, you're welcome.

Jerry, good to see you're around. I'll be interested to see your router table.

Dave

olishea · 23 Aug 2010, 15:47

thanks dave, nice textures. can never have enough wood

jsteacy · 25 Aug 2010, 17:43

I second that Oli!

Thanks Dave,

James

nrevk niatpak · 16 Sept 2010, 08:07

for fancy woods, warmoth has some nice guitar tops and fingerboards on their website...
here's an example :
http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Bodies/Options/LPCarvedChambered.aspx[url][/url]

Dave R · 16 Sept 2010, 10:07

@nrevk niatpak said:

for fancy woods, warmoth has some nice guitar tops and fingerboards on their website...
here's an example :
http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Bodies/Options/LPCarvedChambered.aspx[url][/url]

I had a look. Nice guitars. Are there any reasonably sized material images? I could only find little tiny images that would tile badly if used in SketchUp.

nrevk niatpak · 16 Sept 2010, 19:56

if you scroll down to the laminate top you have a choice of different wood species and by clicking on the guitar body shape it opens a new window ( around 600*875 / jpeg...pretty decent for most renders...
about the tiling... it's usually a bookmatched top so it's not made for tileable wood patterns but rather for fine cabinetry or stuff like that...

Dave R · 16 Sept 2010, 20:10

Thanks for that. Those images are too short for the work I do but maybe someone would like them. Good link.