Is there a way to make unique textures for many selected faces at a time? Many textured faces are renderer wrong and after making them unique, it works. But if there are a lot of "wrong" faces, what is the easiest way to make them all unique?

Thanks for your answers!
Cotty

@unknownuser said:

A very easy workflow with your curious file

Nice one, thank you!

@box said:

I believe it's the age old problem, you are working too small.

I have tried this before posting and this didn't make a difference (in this case).

Perhaps I had selected only the face yesterday and thought that an intersection with the model would bring the lines in the face, but it seems that the selection of the lines (lines only is enough) and the intersection is the right way.

Yesterday, I have tried to select all and intersect. The lines didn't intersect with the face.
Today in the created example it works this way
Thank you Pilou for your hint which pushed me to try it again...
Cotty

Example V6

@unknownuser said:

Click the internal surface for select it...

Thank you for your answer. After creating the face (b.) there is only one face. So I am not able to click the internal surface. I created an example...
Cotty

Example Sketchup file

Is there a possibility to intersect lines with a face?

Example for explanation of the problem (see picture):
a. I have some closed contours (coplanar) and want to get the outer face with holes
b. I redraw one line of the outer rectangle to create a face, this face is not intersected by the (coplanar) lines (->only 1 new face)
c. When I redraw one line of the inner contour, the inner face is seperated
d.-e. the little holes can be separated this way too, but it is a lot of work with much more holes...

So the question is if there exist a simpler workaround to intersect all the lines with the created surface (b.)?
Cotty

I've learned a lot from this thread and here is my little "Duh!"...

Textures of different (coplanar) faces can be combined (context menu - combine textures (?, don't know the english translation of the menu)) if they are preselected.
Because the inner lines can be deleted, this reduces the file size (e.g. for google earth models).

"Make unique texture" reduces file size too (textures are trimmed).

@tig said:

Gaieus has some examples of a chapel rendered this way...

see page 5 of this topic for pictures...

@unknownuser said:

I set up the next scene with a different section cut

Do you make a new section cut or do you change the existing one from the first scene? You have to create a new one for the second scene and make each one active (context menu) in the belonging scene. (Section cut must be set to visible in the style dialog of course)

@alvis said:

For a beginner it is really difficult.
Yes, I noticed!

@alvis said:

But it is possible.
... as can impressively be seen at your models

@alvis said:

I do so watch video
Thank you! A video says more than thousand words

Are you able to share some words about your workflow for texturing your fantastic models? Would be very helpful!

Is it possible to calculate two angles, one for +direction and one for -direction and chose the little one? I don't know about ruby, sorry...
Cotty

Are you able to provide a little image which shows the variables vector1, vector2, normal?
Cotty

@gaieus said:

Here is one: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=92295#p92295

Thank you!

@tig said:

look using a section-cut...

Nice trick to find unwanted internal faces with the ability to select them. Thanks!
Is there a plugin which deletes internal faces of a complex model automatically?

Cotty

Have a look at Indigo Renderer too!
Cotty

@cotty said:

@oxer said:

I think that i have discovered the problem, if you see the model in X Rays Mode (in SU) appears the quad-faces, i understand that the problem with the mapped only affect to faces no triangulated.
...
I have triangulated all the surface and now the render works correctly, the problem were the faces no triangulated.

Have you done it by hand or is there a way to influence artisan to do this? Or some other plugin?

I asked Dale and he replied the (amazing simple) solution:

@unknownuser said:

Hi,
I would suggest using the menu option Artisan->Triangulate prior to painting the material on the surface. It should work fine then.
Dale

I created a little example, see picture. Thank you Dale!
Cotty

@oxer said:

I think that i have discovered the problem, if you see the model in X Rays Mode (in SU) appears the quad-faces, i understand that the problem with the mapped only affect to faces no triangulated.
...
I have triangulated all the surface and now the render works correctly, the problem were the faces no triangulated.

Have you done it by hand or is there a way to influence artisan to do this? Or some other plugin?

Thank you very much for the helpful videos about your workflow!
Cotty

@oxer said:

I have found the error!
There is a conflict with SketchyPhisics 3.1, remember i work on Mac OSX.
Excuse me, it not was a problem in the plugin there were a conflict.
Thanks TIG¡¡

Is there a solution to solve this conflict?