'Maximum Texture Size' is a joke!

thomthom

Looks like it might be a bug...

Sure do - at least according to what TBD quoted.
Wonder if the older SU versions also do this?

kwistenbiebel

Wonder if the older SU versions also do this?

I might be mistaken, but I had the impression that the 'maximum texture size' was only introduced in the latest SU version (7) ...
A much needed one in my opinion though, at least in my case.

Alan Fraser

I think it was introduced into the GUI in V7…although, previously, if you asked them nicely, they would point you towards a registry file that rewrote the MaxGLSize entry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Google / SketchUp(version) / Textures

kwistenbiebel

Could this issue be solved by the use of ruby?
An image exporter that keeps the high res?
I guess it could not work for the Layout issue.

[Off Topic: Does Layout support Ruby extensions? and if not: would it be useful?]

thomthom

@kwistenbiebel said:

Could this issue be solved by the use of ruby?

Theoretically - but it'd be a crazy amount of work. Recreating a whole rendering system. In practise: no.

@kwistenbiebel said:

Does Layout support Ruby extensions?

No.

@kwistenbiebel said:

and if not: would it be useful?

Would have been nice. Has been requested.

chrisjk

On my Mac, using a copy of your image - just dragged off the page in Firefox - I see very little difference between the SU image and image sent to Layout from SU. There is a very minor degradation but nothing to complain about and nothing like as bad as your example. I am not using max texture size - have you tried without?

Chris

remus

Chris, that'll be because the image posted was a low res version so it wont be affected by SU downsizing it. If you try again with something much larger (3000x3000 should do it) you should see the issue.

chrisjk

Remus,
Yes, indeed you are quite right - just tried it with a big photo and it is as you say.

Chris

Lersince1991

Is there any fix for this yet? really annoying and makes the images rubbish!

Derek Edison

I don't think so. I tried to export images from a model with a draped ortho in it two months ago and they still looked horrible. The Windows clipboard did a better job than SU's exporter.