Texture
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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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OK. But I think I will wait with it because, I should to edit colors and then to make the unique textures, otherwise I could not do it later if there is many faces.
As we talked about sandbox, I checked again the "Install extension" button in my SU, and I found directory with .rbs files (so these are installed). It seems that it is not possible to install these files (to open them).
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Sandbox should install with SketchUp. Do yourself a favour and try to re-download/install it. It will not interfere with any other settings you have made or any external plugins you have installed.
Believe me, some of us are beta testers for SketchUp and when there are new versions to test, we keep installing them onto each other in a row. I have never had any problems for the last 5 or so years.
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Are you installing as an admin?
Are you accepting the default folder settings for the installation?After it's installed do you have a Plugins folder and a Tools folder inside the specified Sketchup folder path ?
If you look inside those two folders do you have any .rb files etc ?
Can you take screen shots of their contents and post them here...You really do seem to be able to mess up at a level way above the average newbie
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My OS is Hungarian and we have all sorts of fancy characters in our language (some, like ล and ลฐ not existing in any other language) but if I keep the "normal" installation folders, I never have any problems.
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I did not mess up anything. I sent detailed report with error message to developers, so I am not gonna repeat it here. The problem is really in path.
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