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      skibbbi
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      Hi all,

      I bought, installed. I learn.
      I have read the whole thread. I watched all the movies found on SketchUV but I have not found the answer to my problem.

      I have a texture with dimensions of 10x10cm. I import it into Sketchup and I set the dimensions 10x10cm. After applying it to the object of its dimensions change. After application can scale the texture. But this is not accurate. How can I get SketchUV to use texture on a 1:1 scale. In this case, 10x10cm.

      Regards,


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        Whaat
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        @skibbbi said:

        Hi all,

        I bought, installed. I learn.
        I have read the whole thread. I watched all the movies found on SketchUV but I have not found the answer to my problem.

        I have a texture with dimensions of 10x10cm. I import it into Sketchup and I set the dimensions 10x10cm. After applying it to the object of its dimensions change. After application can scale the texture. But this is not accurate. How can I get SketchUV to use texture on a 1:1 scale. In this case, 10x10cm.

        Regards,

        One way is to first create some reference lines using the tape measure tool that correspond to a 10x10cm grid. Then use SketchUV scaling by keying the scale (eg. '*5') or hold down shift and press the arrow keys. You should be able to get it very accurate if you zoom in closely as you press the arrow keys. Try to match the scale to your reference lines.

        SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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          skibbbi
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          @whaat said:

          ... You should be able to get it very accurate ...

          This, unfortunately, is not enough. For example, if I impose a texture on the wall of the glaze. I need to be able to apply precise dimension, for example, has a plate size 597x597mm and 2mm on the fugue.

          Currently, I was faced with the problem that I have a lot more texture than the object (very fine texture of wood) as in this case, to deal with texture mapping on a scale of 1:1.

          The Quad Face Tool plugin is the function of the "Use material size". Maybe it is also possible to introduce such a feature SketchUV.

          I do not want to be the smartest but you may want to change the approach to the dimensions of texture. Maybe instead of using the '* 5' or '/ 5', convert it to a percentage system. 100% texture dimension 1:1, 80% reduced texture size, 150% increase texture size. All simple and clear, and always under control.

          I'm curious what others Total Members this plugin think about it.

          Or maybe there is another opportunity to have full control on the dimensions of texture?

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          • sh00ksS Offline
            sh00ks
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            Hi,

            I've been using the plugin for some time now and all works great and love it!

            But on my latest project I encoutered a problem with SketchUV and transferring the mapped texture/UV's to Thea Render.

            Let me try to explain 😳

            When exporting a model from SU to TR via the TR-plugin, I get a model-entry with every material I applied in SU. This entry has the UV's included.

            When I map an object in SU with the Planar or Box tools, the mapped texture is correctly transferred to TR with the correct UV's.
            From here on out I can properly apply any TR material I wish.

            But, when I have mapped an object with the Cylindrical or Tube tool it all goes wrong:
            For every face of the object, an texture is imported, named as the main texture (i.e. 'SketchUV') and folowed by a number (i.e. 'SketchUV-21').
            This gives an enormous amount of modelentries in TR and keeps me from properly appying a material in TR.

            Here a simple example setup:
            Basic object with the different SketchUV tools applied

            http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8213/8275828200_5c0ca6a4bc_b.jpg

            The way of exporting the object to TR

            http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8205/8274764057_f58f6bb08f_b.jpg

            Here the object in TR mapped with Box tool
            Notice that in the tree, under 'Models', there is just one entry of the texture (=correct)

            http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8480/8275828342_884992827c_b.jpg

            Here the object in TR mapped with Cylindrical tool
            Notice that in the tree, under 'Models', there are 23 entries that came with this object.

            http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8197/8275828064_120049a961_b.jpg

            Here the object in TR mapped with Tube tool
            Notice that in the tree, under 'Model', there are 288 entries that came with this object

            http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8364/8275827862_b2c348c697_b.jpg

            Is there something that I'm doing wrong or is this just not right?

            Hope you understand the problem and can help me on this one!
            Realy need to map by Tube for my current project πŸ˜„

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            • Rich O BrienR Offline
              Rich O Brien Moderator
              last edited by

              Did you try triangulating before exporting?

              What version of the Thea plugin are you using?

              Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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              • sh00ksS Offline
                sh00ks
                last edited by

                Rich,

                Thx for the quick reply!

                In the examples there is no triangulation, 'cause I thought it didn't matter in this case if it was triangulated or not and tested it before.

                I was wrong 😳 😳 😳 😳 😳

                Traingulation does the trick!
                Before I only triangulated when mapping was doing something weird, but from now on I'll always triangulate πŸ˜„

                Thx for the (oh so simple and obvious) solution!!

                When I was testing your solution I encoutered another thing I don't understand and I hope you can enlighten me on this one:

                When tube mapping, I encouter an error (see attachement) when I first triangulate the tube and then apply tube mapping.
                When I start off with tube mapping and afterward triangulate the tube, it works.

                Is this (first map, then triangulate) the preffered way or is there something I need to change to first triangulate and then map without the error?


                Error when tubemapping traingulated tube

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                • Rich O BrienR Offline
                  Rich O Brien Moderator
                  last edited by

                  Tube Mapping only works on quad faces. So if you triangulate it's not a quad.

                  Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                  • sh00ksS Offline
                    sh00ks
                    last edited by

                    πŸ‘

                    Again, thx!

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                      smicha
                      last edited by

                      First of all - I love the plugin. Thank you so much for your work. This is my major tool for uv mapping.

                      When I uv map different groups or components of different sizes I get different sized sketchuv texture. What I usually do to normalize them (make their texture sizes equal, see the screenshot) I just use '*' or '/' operations but this is extremely time consuming for hundreds of different groups and in most situations this gives me only approximate results. So my question and big wish is - is it possible to add extra feature to auto normalize sizes of the same sketchuv texture?

                      Kind regards,

                      Sebastian

                      https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-sp_9Q7V1q_Q/UTG89bIdFgI/AAAAAAAAC7Q/fIpR6y7x3fc/s1000/sketchuv.jpg

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                        clausgs
                        last edited by

                        HI

                        Looks like a great plugin. I am considering buying the plugin.
                        I am the user of Sketchup and Octane render, have any one tested if the UV mapping created with sketchuv are correctly exported with the octane render exporter (made by TIG).
                        I mean both normal faces and triangulated faces.
                        ???

                        Brg.
                        Claus

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                          Whaat
                          last edited by

                          @smicha said:

                          First of all - I love the plugin. Thank you so much for your work. This is my major tool for uv mapping.

                          When I uv map different groups or components of different sizes I get different sized sketchuv texture. What I usually do to normalize them (make their texture sizes equal, see the screenshot) I just use '*' or '/' operations but this is extremely time consuming for hundreds of different groups and in most situations this gives me only approximate results. So my question and big wish is - is it possible to add extra feature to auto normalize sizes of the same sketchuv texture?

                          Kind regards,

                          Sebastian

                          Hi Sebastian,
                          What you are suggesting should be possible. I will consider it in a future update. Thanks!
                          Dale

                          SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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                            Whaat
                            last edited by

                            @unknownuser said:

                            HI

                            Looks like a great plugin. I am considering buying the plugin.
                            I am the user of Sketchup and Octane render, have any one tested if the UV mapping created with sketchuv are correctly exported with the octane render exporter (made by TIG).
                            I mean both normal faces and triangulated faces.
                            ???

                            Brg.
                            Claus

                            It should work fine with Octane render. If you are getting unexpected results, try triangulating your faces using the tool in SketchUV. The tutorials on the Smustard website demonstrate the workflow.

                            Cheers,
                            Dale

                            SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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                              clausgs
                              last edited by

                              @whaat said:

                              @unknownuser said:

                              HI

                              Looks like a great plugin. I am considering buying the plugin.
                              I am the user of Sketchup and Octane render, have any one tested if the UV mapping created with sketchuv are correctly exported with the octane render exporter (made by TIG).
                              I mean both normal faces and triangulated faces.
                              ???

                              Brg.
                              Claus

                              It should work fine with Octane render. If you are getting unexpected results, try triangulating your faces using the tool in SketchUV. The tutorials on the Smustard website demonstrate the workflow.

                              Cheers,
                              Dale

                              Hi

                              Thanks for the confirmation.
                              One more thing i need to check before I buy is... Will this UV tool be able to handle wood veneers / materials well??

                              I have some curved parts with a big rounding on the edges where I want to apply a wood material.

                              I have attached a link to the skp and wood texture file, can you pleas apply it on the part so it goes nicely around the curved and rounded edge.???
                              If it work it will save me hundreds of hours and I will for sure buy the plug-in.

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                              Pleas tell me if the link do not work.

                              Brg.
                              Claus

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                                smicha
                                last edited by

                                @unknownuser said:

                                Hi Sebastian,
                                What you are suggesting should be possible. I will consider it in a future update. Thanks!
                                Dale

                                Dale,

                                Such update would be awesome and extremely useful for my current work.

                                Best wishes,

                                smicha

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                                  smicha
                                  last edited by

                                  Claus,

                                  All uvs are properly exported using TIG's exporter. This is the only exporter I am using for Octane render. In your example I used tube mapping, which is extremely useful on round edges.

                                  https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-v5ummJxmaho/UUXeQOyrXTI/AAAAAAAAC8U/HGyfW-oreiE/s1467/octane.jpg

                                  https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-HOFWx-9R_RM/UUXeiTQ3iyI/AAAAAAAAC8c/ho-jrg7qe-s/s1467/sketchup.jpg

                                  Kind regards,

                                  smicha

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                                    clausgs
                                    last edited by

                                    @smicha said:

                                    Claus,

                                    All uvs are properly exported using TIG's exporter. This is the only exporter I am using for Octane render. In your example I used tube mapping, which is extremely useful on round edges.

                                    https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-v5ummJxmaho/UUXeQOyrXTI/AAAAAAAAC8U/HGyfW-oreiE/s1467/octane.jpg

                                    https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-HOFWx-9R_RM/UUXeiTQ3iyI/AAAAAAAAC8c/ho-jrg7qe-s/s1467/sketchup.jpg

                                    Kind regards,

                                    smicha

                                    HI

                                    Thanks for the demonstration, it seams that there is a texture lineup problem vertically in the middle of the component but i guess it is just a matter of adjustment.
                                    Also it seams that the texture on the flat surfaces do not continue on the round surfaces, but again i guess it is a issue that can be solved.

                                    I will most-likely buy the plugin and test it out, hope it is easy to use and can make some of my texture mapping easier.

                                    Claus S

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                                      clausgs
                                      last edited by

                                      HI

                                      Have now bought the plugin and tried it.

                                      What happen is that I use planar mapping and it wrap the sketchUV texture around the component. I save uv's and then apply the texture that i want to use on this surfaces, then i load the uv's. what happen is that it re-scale my texture in a non-uniform way. My texture is a 10000x3300 pix png file and it looks terrible.

                                      How to keep a uniformed scale of you end texture while using sketchUV???
                                      Something i miss here or???
                                      Or it can only be used with squared sizes-ed texture files??

                                      Claus S

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                                        smicha
                                        last edited by

                                        @unknownuser said:

                                        ... My texture is a 10000x3300 pix png file and it looks terrible.

                                        How to keep a uniformed scale of you end texture while using sketchUV???
                                        Something i miss here or???
                                        Or it can only be used with squared sizes-ed texture files??

                                        Claus S

                                        Can you post a screenshot?

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                                          Whaat
                                          last edited by

                                          Yeah, a screenshot might help. Can you fix the scaling by adjusting the length and width values in the SketchUp material editor window?

                                          SketchUp Plugins for Professionals

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                                            clausgs
                                            last edited by

                                            HI

                                            On the attached pic you can see o the left a 10000x3300 mm plane where i have applied a texture (10000x3300 pix png file).
                                            Now i make a simple curved surface and apply a planar map with sketchuv, you can see that the sketchuv texture are re sized to fit the whole curved surface. I save the uv's and apply the wood texture and load Uv's, what happen is that the 10000x3300 pix texture get re-sized to fit the whole curved surface.
                                            now i will need to re-scale the wood texture with sketchuv manualy what never will be perfect.
                                            If i change the dimensions in the texture / material editor it will re-scale all textures in the whole model.
                                            Any solution to that issue???

                                            Claus S


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