Materials Image File Goes Missing
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I applied a red standing seam roof material from the SU materials pallete to my house. I editted the color in the materials dialog box using the Edit tab and the color sliders in the RGB channels, saved and closed.
Everytime I open that SU file the roof material is gray and is listed as being "in model" but the bitmap is gone and has to be re-mapped. My first thought was that the jpeg needed to be fixed and replaced in SU but I cant find the place that image texture files are stored in SU. I can find the materials folder within C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 7\Materials\Roofing but there are only SKM files there. Are the jpegs locked away in there somewhere hidden?
What should I do for this file and how can I avoid this in the future?
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Can you just replace the material by getting it from the original library?
If you change the SKM extension to ZIP, you can get to the image file inside it. I would copy the specific SKM file and paste it elsewhere before screwing around with it. Then you can replace it after it has been fixed.
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That sounds good I'll try it. Does it sound like the file may have become corruted and that opening and resaving the image file could fix the problem? If this had been a material i created from a texture file of my own I wouldn't be surprised but this is one of SU default materials.
Adjusting the hue and value with SU sliders in the edit tab has never caused me problems before. Was I just lucky or isn't that what those tools are for?
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I've never had any problems with editing materials. When you do so, my understanding is that you are only editing the In Model copy of it so the original shouldn't get changed.
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That's what I thought too Dave, Thanks for your reply. I'll work on this and post the results for future reference.
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@dave r said:
....If you change the SKM extension to ZIP, you can get to the image file inside it......
Thanks for that piece of information.
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