Texture Queries

scoty1991

Hi, I've been using SketchUp a while now for a couple of things but mainly for creating Google Earth buildings.
the problem I'm facing is I've been hired to create a model of this building and have built it and added textures etc. However, The aerial imagery was of too low a resolution to use as a texture for the roof so i used the normal tiled texture of a slate roof. Unfortunately this is flat and isn't in keeping with the rest of the building and i was wondering if its possible to combine two textures within SketchUP, almost like adding a detail layer or bumpmap in other programs.
To clarify that, what i mean is applying the tiled slate texture and then over the top of that projecting a semi-opaque texture of the low resolution aerial imagery to add a bit of variation to the otherwise solid and uniform tiled texture.
Is this possible, if anyone has any ideas on how to accomplish this please help.
Thank you.

dale

If what you mean is apply two textures to the same face, I don't think that is possible. I have used two separate faces, slightly separated with the solid texture on the lower face, and a more transparent version of that texture hovering over it on a second face. I was using it on a grass texture, and it did make it better. I believe it was Richard who came up with this, if I remember correctly.
Have you considered creating your own new texture? I think short of physically modeling the slate that may be the only answer.

TIG

I think the results might look rubbish and you might get z-fighting at distance... but try making the roof faces with a thickness say 1"/25mm.
Ensure the top and bottom faces look 'up'.
Apply a semi-transparent texture to the top face and your colored texture to the bottom face - this might then give pseudo-bump-mapping to the roof...
Alternatively, as has been said, model some 3D form [smoothed] to the roof planes and apply your textures...

Gaieus

How about editing the texture rather than suffering with SU-to-GE?
Combine the two with whatever transparency (that fits best) on the top layer...