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Quick sketchup question
« on: May 08, 2012, 04:15:49 pm »
Whenever i apply a material from a image the image is always tiled. but on your sketchup models its just the one image. How do i set it to not tile. or do i need sketchup pro?

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Re: Quick sketchup question
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2012, 04:21:57 pm »
If you right click on it and select texture (I believe) it will allow you to resize and skew the image however you want.

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Re: Quick sketchup question
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2012, 04:27:07 pm »
If you right click on it and select texture (I believe) it will allow you to resize and skew the image however you want.

Yeah i can resize it but it never fits properly. and everyone elses seems to be perfect. i thought there mite be a way to just apply the image as one

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Re: Quick sketchup question
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2012, 05:13:19 pm »
2 things:  it's really fidgety to get an image positioned/resized/skewed exactly right on a flat surface and it's heavily dependent on how the picture was taken - if it's a photo.  it's best done with a photo taken perpendicular to the surface, not at an angle up or down, normal lens (not zoomed, no barrel distortion, etc.).  I've had to go back and take a better picture several times, or distort the pic back into shape. 

Thing #2:  if you use the same texture on more than one surface and change it/edit it, it will edit it on all the surfaces it's on.  So I usually save a different version of the pic/texture if i'm going to use it more than once.