hello ummm i need a lot of help,obviously so ill get right to it.
i am unable to add unique textures to bended surfaces,i can make unique textures for plain flat surfaces but not for those beded,so how can i make unique textures for bended surfaces?

i dont know a lot about sketchup so is there a plugin with which i can make spheres? and/or curved lines? but please is there a simple tool for that? and i want only to make the basic spheres noting too fancy.

thanks u for your help.

thanks u werry much,now i see how stupid i am

hi i will be quick so i dont make any grammar mistakes .So i want to make a wallpaper in skecthup,which i did.But the only problem is how to capture that image from that certain angle,cuase as far as i know i use the "print screen"button,which with editing i get a small picture of the thing i actualy wanted to capture.So is there a tool/plugin for that? that i capture the screen,i mean the image from that angle and that it is about 1024x780 or something close to that.
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oh okay,well maybe ill keep it this ways it looks good like this too

My first time that i actulay show something here ...well i am a newbie,but im trying my best! so any critics are welcome.

Here is it.Its supose to be a mecha sword.And the blocks u see under the sword model is a rought model of the arm....just so i can have any thing to compare with.And the 2 blue lines at the back should be glowing,dut i dont know how to do that.And all the blue around the sword should be glowing too.
and i tried different styles.

so...please comment,and say how i could improve it

And im doing the sword when closed,shrunken into the shell on the arm.

YES! Thats exactely what i waned! thank u so much! ...but...which one of this is good? and what do u get with payed that isnt in free?

i have tried the unfolt tool and thanks for the link but thats not what i wanted.I want for it to look like this:

this is how it looks,on the left is the model and on the right is the texture image.

and this is what i want to do.Every texture image is for the entire component,so this is how i want to be in SU,so is it posible? to be similar like this?

I want to make pixel textures so its small,really small texture image.So i want the image for the texture to be in .png format so every pixel on the image could be seen clearly not blured like .jpeg format that the SU creates,and i meant is there a way that just one image could be a texture image for multiple surfaces that are together. (like on the image above)One image where there is multimple surfaces/sides that it covers.
can u understand now?

i need help about the textures.I make my model or however u call it and its made out of multiple groups and i dont know how to add textures in .png format.I want it to be like this:

a image including every face of the component and that i edit that image in png format.So do i need any plugin to save and use textures in .png format and,when i press the "edit textured image" button it opens the image in ACDsee and i want to open it in a different image editing software.
so please help.
thanks.

ummm...i dont have a single clue about plugins ,so what are the basic plugins? like for making sferes,softening edges and othe usefull nad helpfull plugins...so
please give me links to them

hi! I'm new here and I'm a really dummy for sketchup but I'm willing to change that! so...where can I find a tutorial on what every tool does? and I'm looking forward to modeling mechas like this:

and this :

so I don't want to model any houses or anything similar and is there a tutorial for mechas?
and ive seen some plug in stuff...so do I need that or I can go with the basic?...
and last question how long could it take for modeling similar mechas?