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    thomthom
    last edited by 9 Sept 2010, 06:25

    @escapeartist said:

    Ability to add a directory of textures to the library?

    I like this idea. πŸ‘

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      pieterv
      last edited by 9 Sept 2010, 17:07

      Yes, that's what I mean. When I apply a material for example, I can not use Ctrl+Z to undo it. When I move one of the sliders to change a colors saturation for example, I can also not undo the change I have made.

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        thomthom
        last edited by 9 Sept 2010, 18:05

        YEa - Keystrokes aren't sent to SU while the focus is at one of the toolbar windows. Something that has annoyed me since I started using SU. Mostly when you undo changes to a model and when you undo a material change the focus automatically shifts to the toolbar window and you have to click on the SU window to make the shortcuts work again.

        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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          EarthMover
          last edited by 9 Sept 2010, 23:30

          A paintbrush tool to apply materials while dragging across multiple faces. It would be a big help when applying projected textures with hidden geometry turned on for things like rounded corners and SDS meshes. With SU's poor UV capabilities most of us end up projecting multiple facing textures to organic geometry to fake it. The one click per face or drag select methods are a real pain with a lot of small triangles.

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            pieterv
            last edited by 9 Sept 2010, 23:35

            @earthmover said:

            A paintbrush tool to apply materials while dragging across multiple faces. It would be a big help when applying projected textures with hidden geometry turned on for things like rounded corners and SDS meshes. With SU's poor UV capabilities most of us end up projecting multiple facing textures to organic geometry to fake it. The one click per face or drag select methods are a real pain with a lot of small triangles.

            I definitly second that.

            @Thom:

            Aha, so that's the reason! Interesting.

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              thomthom
              last edited by 10 Sept 2010, 05:59

              @earthmover said:

              A paintbrush tool to apply materials while dragging across multiple faces. It would be a big help when applying projected textures with hidden geometry turned on for things like rounded corners and SDS meshes. With SU's poor UV capabilities most of us end up projecting multiple facing textures to organic geometry to fake it. The one click per face or drag select methods are a real pain with a lot of small triangles.

              Got some experiments in regards to that area going on. πŸ˜‰

              Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                rv1974
                last edited by 13 Sept 2010, 07:51

                Hi!
                Would it be possible you implement some 'putting to order' utilities disscussed here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=26013&hilit=material+replacer
                (the 3rd post from the page end)? Though I wouldn't mind to get it with standard mateditor
                I waited something like this with '8' but among many others gaps totalmente nada 😞

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                  Panga
                  last edited by 22 Nov 2010, 09:48

                  Hi Thomthom,

                  Nice concept that you have here, any news about it ?

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                    thomthom
                    last edited by 22 Nov 2010, 10:02

                    Not so far - I was putting it on hold in hopes that SU8 would add/fix some methods that would make it easier to develop. Alas this did not happen so I think I need to work out a design based on the current limitations.

                    Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                      bhbarchitects
                      last edited by 6 Sept 2011, 17:42

                      @alz said:

                      Ah -- here's one I found myself wanting this morning --

                      A browser option to swap or condense materials. Select a bunch of materials in your list and swap them all for a different material.

                      I second that, deleting materials, merging materials and select all by material would be great (which though a standard option does not seem to always work.

                      Matthew

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                        Bob James
                        last edited by 7 Sept 2011, 05:37

                        @rickw said:

                        You mean something like Repaint? I'm working on a GUI for this, with one-for-many replacement, and drag-and-drop selections. Early testing was going well, but my day job slowed development...

                        Did you ever pick this up again?

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                          dodo
                          last edited by 25 Nov 2014, 16:03

                          I wonder if the new API in 2015 make this possible

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                            JQL
                            last edited by 25 Nov 2014, 19:36

                            I really do think this features should be on the native tool and SU team should revamp it... Maybe Thomthom would shoot his own ideas on the team...

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                              jukkoo
                              last edited by 30 Jan 2018, 16:23

                              So this plugin was totally abandoned? It is a great shame. The idea was excellent. Strange that nobody has ever made a plugin for better material organization.

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                                renderiza
                                last edited by 12 Feb 2018, 03:06

                                @thomthom said:

                                [*]Material Context Menu - Copy/Paste Hex values.

                                I was planning to do an extension which allowed me to use Hex instead of RGB ❗

                                I work with HEX values a lot and think SketchUp should support this feature natively. I might still give it a try to see what I can come up with.

                                Keep the great work Thomthom! πŸ‘

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