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Problems with Textures

Missing Textures in Virtualwind

Sometimes, a face is clearly textured in SketchUp, but it is blank in Virtualwind. There are two possibilities as to why this is happening. One is a common problem, the other is rare.

Virtualwind only handles textures on the front side of a face, whereas textures can be placed on both sides of a face in SketchUp. This is explained in detail in the section on Correcting Textures. Have a look there first.

If you have already looked there, and you are convinced your textures are fine, but the problem is still occuring, it is possible that you have foreign (non-ASCII) characters in your textures. The VWS file is strictly an ASCII file, but SketchUp (and Windows, to some degree) supports unicode characters. Look in the \Textures folder of your model, and see if any of them have foreign (non-ASCII) characters. If they do, this is your problem.

Unfortunately, the only way to fix this is to edit the texture in SketchUp so that it uses a different file name.