Material.Texture not working as explained in the doc

[ppoublan]

Dear all,
I'm becoming crazy with the materials and textures classes.

I want to create a new material, based on an existing one applied to an object, with the same texture, but to apply different colorizations.

So I tried :

lets say the object is selected :

entity=Sketchup.active_model.selection[0]
existingmat = entity.material
if entity.material.texture != nil
newmat = Sketchup.active_model.materials.add
newmat.texture = existingmat.texture
end

The SU documentation says that "Material.texture=" method receives as an argument a texture class or nil.
In fact when running this code, I got the message from Sketchup : #<ArgumentError: Texture filename or nil required>

I tried this with existing textures in sketchup.

PS : another strange thing, if i ask for texture.filename, it returns "xxxxname.jpg" even if the jpg file does not exists on the disk (in fact the skm file only exists).

So do I have to export the texture with texture writer to create an copy of an existing texture ?

Yours
Pascal

PS : trying to put the last updates on Tree Maker Plugin.

[tt_su]

Yes, the description in the docs is wrong. (Adding an issue for that.)
But the example (messy example) does demonstrate the correct way - using a string with the path to an image resource.

Texture.filename refer to the file the texture was originally created from. But all textures are embedded in the SKP file - so you cannot expect to find the texture file at that location. You need to use the TextureWriter for that.

[ppoublan]

Thanks a lot for your answer.
F.....g doc and su apis.