Importing a jpg - Fitting it to a Sketchup 3-D Structure
-
Hello all,
I am a Graphic and Web Designer who is very new to SketchUp. I'm just trying to expand my skill set. Currently I'm working on tutorials from SU for dummies.
I would like to be able to show a client what his convention display graphics might look like in a 3-D environment. I have sketched the 3-D components of the display. What I am wondering is if there is a plug-in that will allow me to "wrap" the the artwork (saved as a jpg) around the 3-D component in SketchUp. Or more specifically, bend or mold the jpg so it follows the curve of the face of the 3-D component. Sorry if I'm wording things wrong.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
G
-
Like this?
Always for dummies
-
Hello and welcome.
Although SU has only limited capabilities with texture positioning, you can still achieve some good results. Here is "all" the SU Guide tells us about texture positioning (you may be interested in the material somewhere at the bottom where it writes about wrapping and projecting).
Note that SU will always allow to access the texture tools in the right click menu only on a single face so if you are working with curved surfaces, you may first turn on hidden geometry (View menu) to get a single facet or use a "dummy" plane that you apply the texture to and position it on and then sample it and apply it on the curved surface. See an example here.
Pilou beat me - that's the projection method in Aidan's video. My example above is a wrapping method. Basically these two exist in SU.
Advertisement