[SOLVED!] automated material creation for huge batches?

radorn · 27 Feb 2009, 03:15

OK so I have these 2705 bmp textures I want to have as sketchup materials in a custom collection.
The idea of manually adding them one by one doesn't seduce me, as you may guess.
Anyone know how to solve this? some tool out there? anything?

mattritzman · 27 Feb 2009, 04:49

It's not the most elegant way, but I'd use this program, AutoIt (Windows only):
http://www.autoitscript.com/
It is allows you to script repetitive actions that you'd perform through the GUI. I like it for two reasons:

It is straight forward and easy to learn.
It works on top of any program.

Jim · 27 Feb 2009, 11:05

radorn,

there is a plugin called massmaterialimporter.rb that may help.

Daniel S · 27 Feb 2009, 14:41

There is an old program made by one SU user that worked very well.
Now I tried it with SU7 and creates the .skm but dosen´t apply the texture in SU... is strange.

The ruby console says:

Error; #<NoMethodError; undefined method `attribute_dictionaries' for nil;NilClass>
C;/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/SkIndigo_1_1_15.rb;2044;in `initialize'
C;/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/SkIndigo_1_1_15.rb;3611;in `new'
C;/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/SkIndigo_1_1_15.rb;3611;in `onMaterialSetCurrent'
C;/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/SkIndigo_1_1_15.rb;2044

Perhaps is not the place to put this... but i attach an example of the .skm that dosent work. I cant attach the program because of SCF rules and i cannot find a link to the original creators program.
It`s an executable Jar file, so if anyone knows how to program and correct this program send me a PM.
It will be very usefull for all.

Daniel S

.skm file not working

radorn · 27 Feb 2009, 17:53

Thanks to all. problem solved

@Jim:
That plugin worked like a charm. I have all textures imported now. Saved me hours of tedium.