[Tutorial > Texturing] Texturing an arch - #2

[dominion]

hohum not working, done it all but when i click restore uv it does nothing at all

[Gaieus]

Have you got the original (not-yet-bent) shape?

[dominion]

yea got it fine looks exactly as in your tut

[Gaieus]

You mean it looks like the one in the tut before you make the bend and the UV restore or you mean that you could do it finally?

[dominion]

i can do the bend its just the uv restore that does not work

[thomthom]

@dominion said:

i can do the bend its just the uv restore that does not work

If you open the Ruby Console - does it give you an error?

If not, any chance you can do a video capture`?

[Gaieus]

And any chance you can share the file, too? Beforeit's bent...

[thomthom]

@gaieus said:

And any chance you can share the file, too? Beforeit's bent...

+1

[Odlanier]

This is an old issue:

I read long time ago about the way to change the "avatar" (male figure in the SU default template).

I barley remember that you can use your own pic for this.

Q. After I build an avatar of myself, how can I make it face the camera all the time?

Thanks for your help.

Odlanier

[Odlanier]

Maybe Gaieus knows about this,since he's been working on clay bricks, and tiles for long.

There was an hexagonal clay floor tile in SU 6 very pretty and very realistic.

After I installed SU7 it went missing and instead a white hexagonal tile now appears.

I tried editing it to give it the natural, warm and lovely color and texture it use ti have,but it does not come out so:

when you select a reddish, clayey color it comes out with cherry-red spots and yellowish tint.

Is there a way to recover that lovely hexagonal clay tile?

Thanks fellows,

[massimo]

Maybe this one? Put it in your SU's materials-->tile folder.

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Tile_Hexagon_Beige.skm

[Gaieus]

@unknownuser said:

...After I build an avatar of myself, how can I make it face the camera all the time?...

Hi Reinaldo,

See below video for example.

YouTube - Creating a Face-me component in SketchUp
[flash=480,385:2k210aps]http://www.youtube.com/v/VvI6A7Njw4k?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:2k210aps]

[Gareth]

thanks for the Tutorial...

...i am trying it out.....but have a question or two...

1. When you say Subdivide, do you mean Divide, as in Edge Divide...??....or is there something else i should be aware of..??

2. Do you Group the column at some point along the way...??....if so at what step..??

Thanks in advance,

Gareth

[Gaieus]

No, by subdividing I only meant that I copied the base rectangle along the (then still straight) "column". Otherwise Fredoscale cannot "bend" it. You make as many segments as you wish to eventually have in your arch - that's all.

And there is no need to group - Fredoscale will (at least temporarily?) group the whole thing. But you can group it of course (especially when working in an environment with other geometry).

[Odlanier]

Thanks Gaieus,

I almost didn't recognize you with this new avatar.

Cheers!

[Gaieus]

My eyes are the same!

[Gareth]

ahaaaaa.....thanks Gaieus......i get it now...!!

[Pherim]

Cool tutorial, it also works for waving flags. I also use FredoScale for bending it in several directions and then apply the UV toolkit and it restores the texture correctly! Thank you very much!

[Gaieus]

Yes, exactly. Waving flags - or wind blown curtains (that I also used it for) - anything. Just make sure to triangulate your faces in those cases before the transformation (so that there are no new faces created while autofolding quads)

[leedeetee]

Hey Gai,

Great tutorial (and great plugin). This may be a silly question, but does this technique work when you want to apply bump maps for rendering, do you know?

Thanks.