Wood texture problem
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I am building a model of a side table and have imported a wood texture and painted it on a closed component. For some reason, when I go to adjust position of the texture, this option is not available when right clicking the opened component. See the image and note that there is no texture option. I made sure that the image was imported as a texture and even tried doing the same operation with a stock SketchUp wood texture. I am using Version 8. Help!
See the image here:
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x67/jobranch/TextureProblem.pngJeff
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If you show lines/hidden geometry and pick a face it will appear.
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you have to open the component for editing and paint on individual faces to be able to adjust them. You won't have that option if you apply textures to the "closed" component.
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Solo - thanks, but I don't know what you mean by "show lines/hidden geometry and pick a face it will appear" - how do i do that?
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Top toolbar click on view, then 'hidden geometry', then right click on a face and the texture option will appear.
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I think Michael is on the right track:
@mrossk said:
you have to open the component for editing and paint on individual faces to be able to adjust them. You won't have that option if you apply textures to the "closed" component.
If you paint a group or component "from outside", you will not have access to texture positioning tools. You need to paint faces directly "inside" the component.
What Solo says is that you cannot access texture positioning tools on curved surfaces either - only on their single facets when hidden geometry is on. I doubt this is the case with a table though.
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Yes, Michael is on the right track. You cannot adjust the grain direction if you paint a closed component. You must paint the faces in the component to be able to have any control over the orientation.
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@unknownuser said:
You cannot adjust the grain direction if you paint a closed component. You must paint the faces in the component to be able to have any control over the orientation.
Now it's little different with the new tool of Fredo 6 ThruPaint
No Need to open the Component
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I did it Michael's way and it works. Thanks everyone!
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FWIW, typically with furniture pieces the grain either runs vertically or horizontally. Once you've got the grain direction set for a horizontal piece and a vertical piece, you can sample the material from one of those faces using the eye dropper or the Paint Bucket with Alt (or Command on the Mac) to apply it to the faces in other components. Even if you aren't seeing the material image you're sampling from, this works. I did a little thing on this here .
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Of course I learned it from Dave and his great blog/tutorials
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