Quarter Sawn Oak texture

Dave R · 2 Jan 2008, 21:36

Here are three variations of a quarter sawn oak texture. Thanks to Modelhead for converting the lousy JPG I gave him into something very usable.

Quarter Sawn Oak.skp

boofredlay · 2 Jan 2008, 22:26

Nice. I can use these.

mike d · 3 Jan 2008, 02:56

very nice thanks

mike d

alan wood · 3 Jan 2008, 08:14

What beautiful grain. Thanks for that
cheers
Alan

itisonlyi · 31 Jan 2008, 21:16

Forgive my obvious ignorance. Being new to Sketchup, and even newer to this Forum, I am probably missing something incredibly obvious, but...

How can I use this image as a texture, or material, in Sketchup?

Thanks

Steve

remus · 31 Jan 2008, 22:27

If you open up the model, go into the materials window (window->materials) and then select 'in model' from the drop down menu, you'll see a list of the textures in the model, you thn right click these and select 'save as' to save the material.

itisonlyi · 31 Jan 2008, 23:36

@remus said:

If you open up the model, go into the materials window (window->materials) and then select 'in model' from the drop down menu, you'll see a list of the textures in the model, you thn right click these and select 'save as' to save the material.

AaaaaH! I see.

And I see I can do that with imported jpg's that I use as textures as well.

Is there some easier way to save many Jpg's to textures? By the batch? I have a few dozen images I would like to do that with.

Many thanks (and such a swift response!)

Steve

remus · 1 Feb 2008, 00:01

sorry, i cant help you with importing jpgs in batches, although i'd be interested to see if there is a method for doing this, ive got a lot of jpg textures just waiting to be used.

itisonlyi · 1 Feb 2008, 00:13

Thanks for the response.

If I find something I will certainly post it here.

Steve

KennyL · 1 Feb 2008, 01:04

Remus,

There's a Ruby script called massmaterialimporter.rb that will do what you want.
See http://www.crai.archi.fr/rubylibrarydepot/ruby/em_ren_page.htm.

itisonlyi · 1 Feb 2008, 01:17

@kennyl said:

Remus,

There's a Ruby script called massmaterialimporter.rb that will do what you want.
See http://www.crai.archi.fr/rubylibrarydepot/ruby/em_ren_page.htm.

Thanks. I had found that a few minutes ago, but can't figure out how to make it work.

It prompts me to open a file, which it says will open the folder. I do so, and nothing further happens.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Thanks

Steve

KennyL · 1 Feb 2008, 02:18

Start the material importer, navigate to the directory containing your jpg images, click on any one of them and then click the Open button. After a bit, new materials will be added to your 'In Model' library.

itisonlyi · 1 Feb 2008, 02:25

Yes, but they do not appear to be saved as skm files.

Each must be saved individually.

Or am I just being dense?

Steve

KennyL · 1 Feb 2008, 03:23

You need to move each new material from the 'In Model' library to either an existing material library or to a new one. I suggest that you read up on the Material Browser in the SketchUp User's Guide which explains the whole process.

itisonlyi · 1 Feb 2008, 04:39

So you do have to handle each file individually.

There is no way to "select all" and move/drag/copy to another folder/library.

But I am way better off with this plugin than I was before. Thanks for it.

Steve

itisonlyi · 1 Feb 2008, 08:55

I got this excellent advice in the Google Group Sketchup forum
http://groups.google.com/group/sketchup/

.

@unknownuser said:

...there's a dropdown menu pick called Save Library As...

That will save your entire In-Model Material Library as a named
library, like Wood or Carpet and Textiles. The new library will
correspond to a like-named folder under C:\Program Files\Google\Google
SketchUp 6\Materials, and the folder will contain one .skm file for
each texture.

Hope others find it useful

And thank you again for your help

Steve

remus · 1 Feb 2008, 10:18

cheers, thats very useful, i was just going to do it by dragign all the materials into their respective folders

oldworld124 · 4 Feb 2009, 06:52

I'm a Newbie here on Sketchup and Ruby Plugins.

Could someone explain to me how to download this massmaterialimporter.rb Plugin? When I go into the Plugins library and click on this Plugin it comes up with script. Is there a way to download it normally or do I need to do it some other way. I would like to set up a materials library and do not know how.

Thanks, John

Aidus · 4 Feb 2009, 07:19

Wow! Amazing textures! Thanks!

Gaieus · 4 Feb 2009, 07:35

@oldworld124 said:

...Could someone explain to me how to download this massmaterialimporter.rb Plugin...?

Hi John,

Yes, ruby files are simple text files (only difference is the *.rb extension vs. the *.txt extension). Web browsers and text editors therefore handle both the same way. Anyway, there are two easy ways to save them:

Right click on the file and "Save as..." (or something like that in different browsers) into the Plugins folder. Make sure to give it the same name as it is written on the download page and add the .rb extension (in case it is not added automatically).
NEVERgo to File > save page as... in your browser because it will add a whole bunch of html codes to the text file and it will get corrupted.
When you have already clicked on it and the text is opened in your browser, select all (Ctrl A) > Copy (Ctrl C) and paste it (Ctrl V) into a plain text editor (like Notepad - NEVER a Word processor like MS Word or such!!!).
Now save it (with the same naming rules as above) into your Plugins folder.