SU13 and missing materials

otb designworks

For some reason, any skm file that I add to ~application support/sketchup 13/materials does not show up in Sketchup and all of them worked perfectly fine in SU8. I jost copy and pasted the skm files from one folder to the other.

Is there some difference between "old" and "new" skm files?

thought and suggestions would be highly appreciated because I am talking about probably 50 or 60 custom materials I have developed over the years.

Krisidious

I had a few that reported and error and I just deleted them... They weren't important and they all seemed to be in one folder, so I figured there was something wrong in them. I transferred all of mine over with no issue. I'm on PC though.

otb designworks

Weird.

I can look in the folder and see a slew of .SKM files, but sketchup only shows me a couple of them in the materials palette.

Pretty annoying, actually.

Krisidious

I believe that an .SKM file is just a zip folder with an image file inside it and then the extension is changed from .zip to .skm. try changing the files to from .skm to .zip and pull out the images. then use the material importer to re-create them.

Chris Fullmer

Chuck, could you send me a copy of a few of the .skm's that are failing?

Chris

otb designworks

Hi Chris, thanks for noticing this thread!

I sent you a private message with 2 skm's that appear in the SU13 material palette and 3 that do not.

Please let me know if you need anything further, and thanks again

Chris Fullmer

Thanks Chuck, I see this and can reproduce it as well. What I'm seeing is that SU is reading the materials from the App Bundle first, and it ignores folders with identical names in the ~/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2013/SketchUp/Materials/ location. So to get your materials to work, you might have to change their folder names.

I've written this up as a bug in our database. SU should be reading from a folder called "Asphalt and Concrete" even if it exists in both the App Bundle and in the user library.

Thanks for pointing this out Chuck,

Chris

otb designworks

Thanks Chris. I will try to change the folder name to see if that works and will update with my results.

otb designworks

Changing the folder name works like a champ.

Thanks Chris.

Chris Fullmer

Oh good, glad that worked. Thanks for helping us find this bug

Chris

jeff hammond

@chris fullmer said:

Oh good, glad that worked. Thanks for helping us find this bug

Chris

yeah, thats a good one to find.. i can see how it could of slipped through