Round Edges with Textures

Gaieus

gelbuilding

Here is the result.

solo

@gelbuilding said:

Here is the result.

Looks great.

We so badly need a plugin to automate this, one face at a time can get very long in the tooth fast.

Gaieus

Indeed looks great - not even apparent seam at the corners!

Now as it came from a displacement topic in the Thea forums: have you had any good results with that part?

gelbuilding

Unfortunately no, if i model in SU it looks great. Though when i use my modeling program Chief Architect it extremely difficult to achieve the same results.

gelbuilding

Here is the test model house. Have a close look at the mesh, notice how the stone doesnt match on the corners.
Any suggestions?

Gaieus

Could you attach the skp file, too? (And if you have, the Thea mat.pack file as well - rename it to zip to be able to attach)

gelbuilding

here is the SU file

teststone.skp

gelbuilding

Thea pack file

test_wall.pack.zip

gelbuilding

Very tedious to match up the stone with all the mesh.

gelbuilding

Larger scale stone for better view of corners

TIG

If you just 'chamfer' the corner and apply the materials, then use the eyedropper to sample one face's material and if needed then my Texture Tools to adjust the horizontal spacing of any abutting face's texture by a few mm at a time [shift=x10] - you get quickly get this...
The pattern matching will run out at a corner somewhere unless you tweak horizontal scaling carefully to match

gelbuilding

The round edge plugg in is good.
The window looks good, except look at the right side of the door. I dont know how to fix.
Help please.

Round crs problem mesh.jpg

gelbuilding

Another view

Round crs problem.jpg

Gaieus

There are serious problems with your model. Here are a bunch of things:

all faces are triangulated. In SketchUp, this leads to unnecessarily large poly count, texturing as well as problems with plugins like Round corners.
You have a layered wall with who knows how many layers inside (I am not talking about SketchUp layers but architectural layers). I know the model is coming from Chief Architect and represents the real building things but for simple visualization (where these inner faces cannot be seen) they are just extra stuff to deal with. "Only model what you will see" - this is visualization, not building documentation.
Your wall pieces are individual components (again, from CA) and they should be exploded so that the material can be seamlessly wrapped around (and vertices welded in Thea). Same with your roof pieces. This is one of the reasons CA models are hard to work with in Thea, too.
Basically what you should do is too.
delete all inner layers (like insulation and all),
explode your wall pieces
and run these two plugins after each other
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=28087
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=22920
(note that this second one needs an additional plugin library). This is the result after I first ran it:

although first I would also get rid of the stone and brick materials, too since at some places, the walls are painted with both - depending on triangulation)
Imported stuff is often quite hard to work with before you really clean up what may be useful in other apps but useless in SU - also the export/import process may add a bunch of things that need to be cleaned first.

gelbuilding

Thanks Gaieus,

I will do what you suggested. Sounds good, i will post results

Thanks ever so much.

Gaieus

Here is also the model (I am sure there would still be place to reduce unnecessary complexity). Notice the difference in file size, too (almost half).

There is an inevitable problem however; unless your texture fits exactly around the model (or divided equally around the model), there will always be one edge where it does not fit seamlessly. Always put this edge (now find it behind) to where you will not examine the building - or break the completely continuous texture with some architectural element.

Edit: I also got your thea pack file but could not open or import it for some reason.

teststone.skp

gelbuilding

Hi Gaieus,

I like how the mesh gets cleaned up, though now when I do round corners to the brick opening around the door ie three edges and hit to round the whole face turns white. I don't understand why this occurs. Any suggestions what I'm doing wrong.

Gaieus

Don't forget that this plugin creates new edges - and when coplanar edges that form a closed loop are created in SU, a face is also created. Just click on it to select and press delete (if I understand the problem clearly)

gelbuilding

Perfect Gaieus.
All good.
Thanks ever so much for your help.