[Concept] Materials++

pieterv

A paintbrush tool to apply materials while dragging across multiple faces. It would be a big help when applying projected textures with hidden geometry turned on for things like rounded corners and SDS meshes. With SU's poor UV capabilities most of us end up projecting multiple facing textures to organic geometry to fake it. The one click per face or drag select methods are a real pain with a lot of small triangles.

I definitly second that.

@Thom:

Aha, so that's the reason! Interesting.

thomthom

@earthmover said:

A paintbrush tool to apply materials while dragging across multiple faces. It would be a big help when applying projected textures with hidden geometry turned on for things like rounded corners and SDS meshes. With SU's poor UV capabilities most of us end up projecting multiple facing textures to organic geometry to fake it. The one click per face or drag select methods are a real pain with a lot of small triangles.

Got some experiments in regards to that area going on.

rv1974

Hi!
Would it be possible you implement some 'putting to order' utilities disscussed here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=26013&hilit=material+replacer
(the 3rd post from the page end)? Though I wouldn't mind to get it with standard mateditor
I waited something like this with '8' but among many others gaps totalmente nada

Panga

Hi Thomthom,

Nice concept that you have here, any news about it ?

thomthom

Not so far - I was putting it on hold in hopes that SU8 would add/fix some methods that would make it easier to develop. Alas this did not happen so I think I need to work out a design based on the current limitations.

bhbarchitects

@alz said:

Ah -- here's one I found myself wanting this morning --

A browser option to swap or condense materials. Select a bunch of materials in your list and swap them all for a different material.

I second that, deleting materials, merging materials and select all by material would be great (which though a standard option does not seem to always work.

Matthew

Bob James

@rickw said:

You mean something like Repaint? I'm working on a GUI for this, with one-for-many replacement, and drag-and-drop selections. Early testing was going well, but my day job slowed development...

Did you ever pick this up again?

dodo

I wonder if the new API in 2015 make this possible

JQL

I really do think this features should be on the native tool and SU team should revamp it... Maybe Thomthom would shoot his own ideas on the team...

jukkoo

So this plugin was totally abandoned? It is a great shame. The idea was excellent. Strange that nobody has ever made a plugin for better material organization.

renderiza

@thomthom said:

[*]Material Context Menu - Copy/Paste Hex values.

I was planning to do an extension which allowed me to use Hex instead of RGB

I work with HEX values a lot and think SketchUp should support this feature natively. I might still give it a try to see what I can come up with.

Keep the great work Thomthom!