Applying Textures
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Hello,
I am new to Sketchup and I am trying to texture a square column, using a picture of the wood grain and color I want texureize the column with. I am having trouble eliminating the tiling on the vertical plane. When I try to make the texture fit it becomes stretched out. How can I keep the texture scale without distorting it? -
What you're asking for isn't much different than trying to get the real column covered with a board 12" long. The image you have isn't long enough to cover the column so out of necessity it will have to be repeated. If you are going to make the image long enough to cover the column without tiling, you will have to stretch the image which will distort it as you've found. And it sounds as if it isn't a seamless image or you wouldn't notice the tiling.
As I see it, you have two options. The first would be to edit the image to make a seamless version of it. There are numerous tutorials around related to doing that in PhotoShop or other image editors. The alternative is to use a wood grain material image that is already long enough. That means you'll need a larger image than what it sounds as if you're using.
Instead of the square images that are commonly found for wood grain materials, I make long images from photos of actual wood. Here's an example of one from a hickory board.
This one scales out to 9 feet long and a little over 13" wide.
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Thank you for your reply. I will try the suggestions that you made.
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