Images vs. textures?

[lesourdsville]

I've recently had to start combining existing models into large, complex models, as opposed to the modeling from-the-ground-up that I have more experience in. In trying to clean up some of these models from other users, I discovered that instead of textures, some people have been "painting" with images, in a sense (attaching them to flat walls and whatnot).

I tried a purge, which successfully cleaned up many textures and components the larger model did not need, but it still says the file has over 3,000 images associated with it.

With a model this size, it would take me a month (or more) to check every surface for mistaken images vs. textures.

Is there some way I can isloate imported images, or purge them wholesale?

[TIG]

If you simply want to delete all Images in a model, then this one-liner will do it...
Open the Ruby Console and copy+paste the text + <enter>...

m=Sketchup.active_model;m.start_operation('i',true);m.definitions.select{|d|d.image?}.each{|d|d.instances.each{|i|i.erase!}};m.commit_operation;

It WILL erase ALL Images, so use with care - although it is one-step undo-able...

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However, if you want just to Explode the Images in situ, then try this alternative...

m=Sketchup.active_model;m.start_operation('i',true);m.definitions.select{|d|d.image?}.each{|d|d.instances.each{|i|i.explode}};m.commit_operation;

This leaves each of the Images made into a Material, applied onto a new rectangular face, which might merge with the geometry immediately behind the original location...

[lesourdsville]

Thanks very much! That is very helpful.

There isn't any way to figure out which objects are images in outliner, is there? Or some other option to view them?