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    • Bob JamesB Offline
      Bob James
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      @thomthom said:

      One can select all entities that has material with the same colour.

      That's what I don't know how to do: If I could select all the entities with the same color and then isolate only those entities I could see which ones had the "wrong" color so I could change it.
      Very belated update:

      Karen Walkerman has done just what I requested above.
      http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=31378
      Thanks again Karen 👍

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      • D Offline
        dedmin
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        Is it possible to change just the material of the picked face?

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        • TIGT Offline
          TIG Moderator
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          @dedmin said:

          Is it possible to change just the material of the picked face?

          Can't you just paint it ??

          TIG

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          • D Offline
            dedmin
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            The beauty of this tool - You don't have to open a component to change the material of the faces.
            But it changes all the material in the whole model - not just the face You click on.

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            • TIGT Offline
              TIG Moderator
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              @dedmin said:

              The beauty of this tool - You don't have to open a component to change the material of the faces.
              But it changes all the material in the whole model - not just the face You click on.

              BUT your question was to change the material of the picked face !
              You mean to change the material of the picked face INSIDE THE GROUP/INSTANCE !
              It couldbe done... but I must leave it to others......

              TIG

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              • D Offline
                dedmin
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                Yes, inside the group or component. And only of that picked fase.

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                • L Offline
                  lcbrewer
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                  How do you install this plugin

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
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                    Open the zip file and drop the .rb file and the folder with it into the Plugins folder where SketchUp is installed.

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

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                    • bagateloB Offline
                      bagatelo
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                      It would be possible to create a function swap some materials? Something like this:
                      Imagine a blue box and a red ball. We play the plugin, we click on the box and after the ball, and the colors are reversed. It would be interesting too, if it were possible to exchange materials not in the whole scene, but only on selected objects. Thanks for this fantastic tool.

                      While the cat's away, the mice will play

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                      • C Offline
                        cobb89
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                        Is there any way we can use this plugin to replace a specific material [.skm]..that has been used in the model with vray materials [i.e. .vismats]...??

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
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                          @cobb89 said:

                          Is there any way we can use this plugin to replace a specific material [.skm]..that has been used in the model with vray materials [i.e. .vismats]...??

                          Use V-Ray's material editor. Right click a material and Import

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

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                          • jarynzlesaJ Offline
                            jarynzlesa
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                            thank you for this plugin, i found this very useful. 👍

                            http://www.vizualizaceschodiste.mypage.cz/

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                            • Bob JamesB Offline
                              Bob James
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                              This sort of ties in with the current thread:
                              http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=36987

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                              • dereiD Offline
                                derei
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                                As I can see, this plugin replaces a material globally in entire model. It would be awesome to have option to replace material on a specific object only. 👍
                                Will you take into consideration my suggestion?
                                Thank you.

                                DESIGNER AND ARTIST [DEREI.UK](http://derei.uk/l)

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                                • TIGT Offline
                                  TIG Moderator
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                                  @unknownuser said:

                                  As I can see, this plugin replaces a material globally in entire model. It would be awesome to have option to replace material on a specific object only. 👍
                                  Will you take into consideration my suggestion?
                                  Thank you.

                                  You probably need http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=63629#p63629 [my olde Global_Material_Replacer.rb tool] - it is dialog driven to choose the material to go and material to use - including 'All' and 'Default-front/back'. It swaps materials in the entire model's active_entities collection, OR IF there's a selection on selected objects... It works inside 'containers'...

                                  TIG

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                                  • dereiD Offline
                                    derei
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                                    @tig said:

                                    You probably need http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=63629#p63629 [my olde Global_Material_Replacer.rb tool] - it is dialog driven to choose the material to go and material to use - including 'All' and 'Default-front/back'. It swaps materials in the entire model's active_entities collection, OR IF there's a selection on selected objects... It works inside 'containers'...

                                    As I could see, thomthom's plugin keeps UV mapping, when replacing materials, which is cool 😄. Does yours keeps UV ?
                                    When I use paint bucket tool to change the material on some object, the UV is reset.

                                    DESIGNER AND ARTIST [DEREI.UK](http://derei.uk/l)

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
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                                      @unknownuser said:

                                      When I use paint bucket tool to change the material on some object, the UV is reset.

                                      Use the Entity Info to replace materials - then the UV is preserved.

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

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                                      • dereiD Offline
                                        derei
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                                        @thomthom said:

                                        Use the Entity Info to replace materials - then the UV is preserved.

                                        Thanks! I never used it.

                                        DESIGNER AND ARTIST [DEREI.UK](http://derei.uk/l)

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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
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                                          @unknownuser said:

                                          [TIG] Does yours keeps UV ?
                                          When I use paint bucket tool to change the material on some object, the UV is reset.
                                          Like with Entity Info... my tool swaps the material but keeps the UV-mapping - so any rotated or scales/skewed textures stay unchanged, but the material uses a different image-file...

                                          TIG

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                                          • dereiD Offline
                                            derei
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                                            @tig said:

                                            Like with Entity Info... my tool swaps the material but keeps the UV-mapping - so any rotated or scales/skewed textures stay unchanged, but the material uses a different image-file...

                                            Will this affect Twilight metadata? If I change a "wood" material with a "metal" material, both with textures... will it render as "metal", or just the image is changed and uses metadata from initially "wood" ?

                                            DESIGNER AND ARTIST [DEREI.UK](http://derei.uk/l)

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