[req] unique texture

[xrok1]

would anyone be able to do a script that would allow "Make Unique Texture" to be applied to multiple faces at once?

this could be very handy and time saving when working with photomatch...

[Ecuadorian]

Thomthom said the API didn't provide this function, but if the user sets a shortcut for this function (or any function for that matter) the API can trigger this shortcut. So perhaps you could change your Ruby request to:

"Repeat shortcut over multiple faces"

...or something like that.

[xrok1]

or step through selection

whatever you call it, i'd call it handy!

[Chris Fullmer]

Thom's done more with materials than myself, but it seems like there might be some way to not do a simple .make_unique, but perhaps create a new texture from the existing. It seem slike it would require finding the original image, make a new material that uses the original image as the texture, then apply the new material to the face, using the previous UV coordinates.

Is all of that possible?

Chris

[xrok1]

@unknownuser said:

but perhaps create a new texture from the existing

isn't that what make unique does?

[Chris Fullmer]

That's what I'm curious about. There is no existing "make unique" method. So you can't single out a face, find its material and tell it to be unique.

But you absolutely can find a face, find its material, find the path to that material. Then make a new material and assign the image to the new material. Perhaps the actual image would need to be copied as a separate file though. I just don't know. I think Thom might be out of town right now too. Mqabe someone else has some time to test this stuff out.

Chris

[xrok1]

well if someone does crack the case it would be nice to be able to do the same (multiple faces) with projected texture as well

[TIG]

If I get this right you want a new method material.make_unique ?
If so I have something...

material-make_unique.rb adds a new Method to Sketchup's Material Class -
material.make_unique
It makes a clone of the material from the original and gives it a
new name, incrementing the 'name' with #n at the end.
Returns a unique new material.
material-make_unique.rb

Example of use...

make material of selected faces unique

type makefacesmaterialsunique in the Ruby Console

No UV mapping yet...

[Gaieus]

The native make unique function doesn't simply makes a new material based on the one applied to a face but also

• crops the image on the face boundaries
• if it is a "tiling" image (more instances applied on a face obviously), it will "unite" those images into the unique image

[TIG]

@gaieus said:

The native make unique function doesn't simply makes a new material based on the one applied to a face but also

• crops the image on the face boundaries
• if it is a "tiling" image (more instances applied on a face obviously), it will "unite" those images into the unique image

I know... This was just a quick first attempt... The UV and size/merged images need work...

[xrok1]

great progress! keep going
are you going to throw the projected option in there too??

[Gaieus]

@tig said:

I know... This was just a quick first attempt... The UV and size/merged images need work...

OK-OK, I wasn't going to "lesson" you (I was sure you know ) just mentioned to make it obvious for all.

Anyway, I think that the improved texturing tools in SU 7 are still undervalued by many.

[xrok1]

any progress?

[TIG]

Sorry... it's at the end of a long list If anyone else wants to chip in pleased do...

[xrok1]

TIG, thanks for considering it and best luck with all your other projects.