Quarter Sawn Oak texture

itisonlyi

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

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

@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

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

Thanks for the response.

If I find something I will certainly post it here.

Steve

KennyL

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

@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

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

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

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

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

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

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@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

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

oldworld124

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

Wow! Amazing textures! Thanks!

Gaieus

@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.

oldworld124

Hello Gaieus,

Thanks for the reply. However, I tried saving massmaterialimporter.rb into the Plugins section of Google SK7 and it does not show up. I must be doing something wrong. I copied and pasted in Notepad as you explained and named everything correctly and saved it in Plugins. The Folder does not show up at all. I then saved it in My Documents to see if it would show up. It does but only opens in Excel. The script is the same as is on the site. Your help and any from others is much appreciated.

Thanks, John

Gaieus

It mightnot show up in the Plugins menu but somewhere else (I don't have it so don't know).

It's interesting though that it opens in Excel. Can you open it in Notepad? Do you see any strange in the text if you open it?

oldworld124

I have been able to copy and save it to Notepad and reconfigured it to open in Notepad
instead of Excel. The problem is that I cannot get it to go to SKP7
Plugins. It only opens in Notepad and is in it's proper script as is shown on the Ruby Library. It will not go into Plugins on SK7. Am I copying too much? Could someone please give me some pointers as to how to get this to run? It seems like a very useful Plugin. I am a quick learner. I just needs some pointers.

Thanks, John

Gaieus

@oldworld124 said:

...The problem is that I cannot get it to go to SKP7 Plugins. It only opens in Notepad...

Well, then in Notepad, save the file as is - into the SU 7 Plugins folder. Are you saying you cannot svae there?