Moving skp model with all materials at once

bizkonson

I was wondering, If I want to move my complete skp model with all the materials and settings from my comp to another comp that does not have all my libraries of materials and bmps, is there a way to do it?

for example in AutoCAD I can ETtransmit my project with all the fonts and xrefs or in Adobe InDesign I can also package my projects(all the fonts and photos) and move them around pc's.

what happened to me is when I moved my model from my PC to my Laptop it looses many materials and settings since I don't have the files there and arranging them in the same folder like on my PC will take me to much time.

thanks in advance for the help

Dave R

Materials you've applied to your SketchUp model will be available if you send the SKP file to another computer. To see that, download a model from the 3D Warehouse that contains materials you don't have on your machine. Are you exporting some other file type to the other computer?

Any materials, styles, and components used in the model would be held in the In Model libraries for that SketchUp file and would go along when you send the SKP file.

cotty

Or are you asking about rendering with linked images? In this case, you render app should be able to pack the scene (e.g. Indigo and Thea are)...

bizkonson

its true that most of the materials will move when I copy the skp file,
but the hdri, bump, displacement maps and some of the defuse of the materials is lost since its looking for the bmp files that does not exist in the other comp.

im using vray for the render. are you saying there should be a way to pack via the vray all the items that are in my project? (and i mean at once not each one individually that i know how to do).

like i pointed out in autocad you can etransmit your project and it will pack all the fonts,ctb and xrefs.

and in adobe indesign when you pack you project it also sends all the pictures, fonts and so on.

but in skp i don't see a way to "pack" your project with all the needed files (bmp maps and so on...)

rspierenburg

Thats because Sketchup and Vray are two different programs. Sketchup has no idea what a Bump map is or a specular map. But with Vray you can pack each material independantly but unfortunately I don't think you can do the whole model at once. I could be wrong though.

Rob