Texture alignment plugins ?

agamemnus · 25 Feb 2011, 20:26

The default Sketchup texture alignment and scaling method is almost unusable.

I need something that lets me align textures precisely to a polygon. Specifically,

something that lets me align a side of the texture to a side of the polygon (eg: top-left to top-left), so I can scale it exactly 1:1 to the polygon.
something that lets me align the texture so that the texture center is exactly at the polygon center.
edit: nvm this one..

Thanks!

agamemnus · 27 Feb 2011, 04:33

I guess thomthom's works for the first one...

thomthom · 28 Feb 2011, 09:38

@agamemnus said:

something that lets me align a side of the texture to a side of the polygon (eg: top-left to top-left), so I can scale it exactly 1:1 to the polygon.

How would one know what top-left of an arbitrary polygon would be?

rocorona · 28 Feb 2011, 19:57

Absolutely correct, TT.
Anyway, it is also true that texture placement is mostly done in a inaccurate way. Is there a chance to have some numeric input, for scaling/skewing/rotating textures?

agamemnus · 1 Mar 2011, 04:56

Guess go by the user's view angle to find the top left? I dunno.

@rocorona said:

Absolutely correct, TT.
Anyway, it is also true that texture placement is mostly done in a inaccurate way. Is there a chance to have some numeric input, for scaling/skewing/rotating textures?

Yup, would be nice. Something like an entity box, with automatic application. (without having to press <enter>)