Texture
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When I created the rectangle with a photo by import, how can I change opacity of it? I tried Paint Bucket, and change opacity, but the layer did not change.
Now I clicked to the gray/white rectangle which is divided with two trianlges (Edit menu, upper right corner, third icon from top). Edit options are disabled and cannot to get it back (I clicked undo but this stayed disabled)...
And I click alt+click on texture to select it as material, but no, nothing changed in the Edit tab. In the Select tab "TESTERS" folder no files to see. There should be my files.
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There's a slider for opacity/transparency at the bottom for each "In model" material under the edit tab. The white/grey material at the top is the default material and you cannot change its properties here (just under the styles settings but there's no transparency option for that there)
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Okay, do this (in the original model from the Warehouse):
- Turn on hidden geometry (to see the original, now hidden GE snapshot) and delete it (twice, for some reason - it seems that the original modeller made a copy of it)
- Turn on the GE Terrain layer. right click on the terrain > Unlock. Delete that, too.
- Now go to Window > Model info > Geo-location and press the button "Add more imagery". A new dialog pops up - you can resize it to fill your screen. At the top right, there is a "Select region" button...
- Now scroll in/out to see the whole castle and pull the pins of the region to cover what you want to grab.
- Now press the "Grab" button at the top right again and it will import the colour imagery you selected right (and exactly) under your castle. If you toggle the terrain layer on (and hide the snapshot layer), you will even have the mountain next to the building.
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This is what happened to me:
after I clicked the icon. There was the image set but now it is not.
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I did it different. Just clicked the icon Add More Imaginary. Is that the same? I think so.
IHO is - that these data are unsusable. The LOD is too small resolution. Do you see that bridge? It should be 10m high and cca 8,5m above water. Incorrect elevation data that is the reason why the model was inaccurate.
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Well, Google Earth does not have precise elevation data almost anywhere. It's just an "approximation". You can always "sculpt" your terrain with the Smoove Tool - and add some more detailed mesh with the Add detail tool.
Or if you have some extra cash, you can even purchase Vertex Tools.
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Sandbox is not installed on my PC (i see it not there), can I download it?
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Sandbox IS installed with SU - maybe not enabled. Go to Window > Preferences > Extensions and check its box. Restart SketchUp. Now (if the toolbar is still not active), go to View > Toolbars > and check Sandbox tools.
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@gaieus said:
Sandbox IS installed with SU - maybe not enabled. Go to Window > Preferences > Extensions and check its box. Restart SketchUp. Now (if the toolbar is still not active), go to View > Toolbars > and check Sandbox tools.
No, I don't have it there
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Are you saying you do not have this under your extensions tab in Preferences?
If this is the case, reinstall SketchUp. -
I don't have any extension. But I don't see any sense of reinstalling from buggy installation file. Also my version 8.0.15158 crashes sometimes.
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I still the problem as I described above with the textures. The images from my folder called "Materials\TESTERS" "disappeared" - but they are really there in Explorer. They are just not displayed by Select tab when I choose this folder. Any idea why it is not displayed there?
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@rumcajs said:
I don't have any extension. But I don't see any sense of reinstalling from buggy installation file. Also my version 8.0.15158 crashes sometimes.
Sometimes the download is corrupt somehow. Believe me, these things (missing extensions or exporters) can often be corrected with a fresh download/install.
@rumcajs said:
The images from my folder called "Materials\TESTERS" "disappeared" - but they are really there in Explorer.
What format (extension) are they?
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png a jpg but they were visible before I clicked the icon
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SketchUp materials are in skm format. Once you import an image as material (or turn an image entity into a material), the skm file is automatically created - but you need to save / copy it from your "In model" library into one of the permanent libraries in order to access it later, from other files, too...
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I don't understand you. Do I must backup my material settings?
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Sketchup materials are 'SKM files' - these are found in the Materials subfolders.
They are a special kind of ZIP file containing data needed to make/use a material within Sketchup, display a thumbnail-image etc.
When you add a material from the Materials Browser, onto an object in your Model, you will either load it from one of the SKM files in a Materials library, or if it's a material that's already loaded into the Model you can reuse that...
A Sketchup material at its simplest has Red/Green/Blue values to make its 'color', it can also be given 'transparency' [e.g. 'glass'] if desired.
A material could also have a 'texture' associated with it.
This 'texture' is made from an image-file - typically a PNG or JPG image.
A premade textured SKM comes with an image-file already specified in its data and saved inside the SKM 'container'.
You can make new materials and set/reset the RGB and transparency, and also add a 'texture' image-file if desired - you must do this by linking an selected image-file into the SKM's data.
So, it seems that you have a folder of image-files - NOT SKM files - therefore they will show in a Windows Explorer pane [they are images], BUT they won't show up in the Sketchup Materials Browser, because that only list SKM files...
To utilize these images as textures you must apply them to new materials that you must make...
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Thanks for explanation. I just wanted to say that I had seen the images before. But probably I was wrong and confused. It had to be in the Adding material dialog box
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I is possible to cut material (texture of image) when it is already applied on object? I mean, I can go to external editor from local menu, when I use Paint Bucket, but if I save it, will SU recognize that he has to change to position of the texture on every face of object?
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Right click on a face and "Make texture unique". Now it will make a single material of anything that covers that face (i.e. if it is a tiling texture, it will combine those tiles into a single image etc.). You can then edit it separately.
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