SketchUp versions of Arroway Textures

Al Hart · 23 Jan 2010, 16:27

Arrow Textures has a sampler pack Textures Edition One

They make the low-res versions of these textures available at no cost - for both commercial and non-commercial use.

I have created a SketchUp Texture Collection based on these textures. I would be interested to know if these textures (without bump and specular maps) are of any value to SketchUp users?

If you have a third party renderer, you can download the full texture set for each texture from Arroway. (Or purchase the high res versions) and use them to render these textures.

Give them a try: Arroway Texture Set

If you unzip this into C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 7\Materials they should just work.

rdluther · 24 Jan 2010, 21:03

Thanks Al these are going to be great!

d12dozr · 24 Jan 2010, 21:21

Thanks, Al...very useful!

miikka1978 · 25 Jan 2010, 04:26

Thanks. These are perfect for my needs.

meak · 25 Jan 2010, 09:16

thanks

kwistenbiebel · 25 Jan 2010, 10:14

Thank you al. This is useful. Much and much better than the default SU material library.

Gaieus · 25 Jan 2010, 13:42

Yes, definitely. Even good for (not too close-up) renderings.
But special thanks Al for clarifying that they can (now) be used in commercial projects (although they would obviously take it as courtesy if one bought them for this purpose).

Al Hart · 25 Jan 2010, 14:09

I see I messed up the names a bit - I will make a new set tomorrow. These will work just fine, except for the names.

Let me see some of the models you create.

Gaieus · 25 Jan 2010, 14:24

yes, the names would be essential as the bump and specular maps need to match so that people can find them easily from thumbnails...

Al Hart · 25 Jan 2010, 15:08

@gaieus said:

yes, the names would be essential as the bump and specular maps need to match so that people can find them easily from thumbnails...

Here is one of the typical names now:

stone-002_Arroway-lo-res-Arroway-low-res

It is usable, but it it would be better if it was

stone-002_Arroway-lo-res

Which is what I intended.

The stone-002 is the important part, since it matches Arroway's terminology

TIG · 25 Jan 2010, 15:26

To neb in...
I have a very quick batch filename fixer 'Lupas Rename' and I've already fixed all of my .skm's to suit... BUT it's 24Mb zipped - so how did you 'upload' such a big file onto the forum in the first place ? I see it's linked back - do you want me to email you a copy - my limit is email 20Mb but I can split it... ?

Al Hart · 25 Jan 2010, 16:00

@tig said:

To neb in...
I have a very quick batch filename fixer 'Lupas Rename' and I've already fixed all of my .skm's to suit... BUT it's 24Mb zipped - so how did you 'upload' such a big file onto the forum in the first place ? I see it's linked back - do you want me to email you a copy - my limit is email 20Mb but I can split it... ?

Thanks for the offer:

I renamed one of the .SKM files, but it still shows up with the funny name when I browse for materials in SketchUp in "List" mode.

I see that the name of the material is also contained in the .XML files which are zipped into the .SKM file:

document.xml: <mat:material colorBlue="121" colorGreen="137" colorRed="143" colorizeType="0" hasTexture="1" name="boards-001_Arroway-lo-res-Arroway-low-res" trans="0.5" type="1" useTrans="0">

documentProperties.xml: dp:titleboards-001_Arroway-lo-res-Arroway-low-res</dp:title>

Does your script alter the .XML files as well?

If not, then it would be better if I recreate them.

(The .ZIP file is stored on another web site, and only linked to in the original post.)

TIG · 25 Jan 2010, 16:20

I see the problem - sorry but needs to be done from scratch to get the innards right...

Al Hart · 25 Jan 2010, 17:12

I have uploaded a new version, with better names. Arroway Texture Set

If you have already downloaded the old version, you will want to remove the Arroway folder in

C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 7\Materials

Gaieus · 1 Feb 2010, 17:25

Hi Al,

I finally got to downloading the whole pack (and thanks again).
However it seems that under the "Plasters" folder, there are no materials. Did you just miss them or weren't the materials available for download in free/low-res version?

Al Hart · 1 Feb 2010, 17:46

@gaieus said:

Hi Al,

I finally got to downloading the whole pack (and thanks again).
However it seems that under the "Plasters" folder, there are no materials. Did you just miss them or weren't the materials available for download in free/low-res version?

I made all those categories myself by saving the materials from SketchUp and saving them as a collection, and then moving all the materials into sub-folders. The plasters are all under Masonry, if you want to move them.

Gaieus · 1 Feb 2010, 17:55

Okay, thanks! That makes sense and of course, I can arrange them as I wish.

Al Hart · 1 Feb 2010, 18:01

@gaieus said:

Okay, thanks! That makes sense and of course, I can arrange them as I wish.

Let me know if these work for you, and I would love to see an image up here on the forum if you have anything to show.

We are also going to market a full resolution version of these 100 materials, along with the bump and specular maps for use with 3rd party rendering engines, for about $100.00 if anyone is interested. (You can purchase the full texture pack from Arroway for less money, but some people may be willing to pay a few $$ more for a SketchUp ready (and, of course, IRender nXt ready) version of the high res textures.)

awhale · 24 May 2013, 08:19

Any chance these texture collections are still online somewhere? The links you posted are now dead.

Thanks!

Al Hart · 24 May 2013, 13:23

I found and uploaded the original file arroway.zip to

Arroway.zip

However, it seems to have the "double" file names.

Gaieus, or anyone else, if you have a copy of the file with the corrected file names, send it to me (a 24 meg email is no problem), and I will upload it instead. (al.hart AT renderplus.com)