Does anyone know if you can select the direction of the wood grain on different boards in Sketchup? For example, rails and styles would look much better if all the grain was not vertical.
I have thought about editing one of the default wood grain patterns such as “Wood_Cherry_Original.jpg” by rotation the jpg 90 degrees for a second material of the same color, but I haven’t been able to locate the file with search. Maybe it is stored within some larger file?
Thanks,
Rooms
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Hello Rooms,
Sketchup allows you to move the grain direction any way you want. Simply right click the textured surface and select "texture->position". Some sort of transparent texture control window will appear. Left click and hold the green pin and move the mouse to rotate as necessary. Hit "Enter" when done. The other buttons (red, blue and yellow) allow you to perform other effects on the texture.
Regards,
Senomozi
I did that to the original cherry texture as well as to a quarter sawn oak texture several years ago and it has been very vaulable. It's a little more difficult to manage now because te JPG isn't as easy to access. I have the two cherry version on my home machnie and will post them. In the meantime try these.
Q-sawn oak Vertical: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/weekender410/OakQSver.jpg
Q-sawn oak Horizontal: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/weekender410/OakQS.jpg
For what it is worth, if you right click after you've got the push pins displayed when editing a texture applied to a face as mentioned, you'll get another menu giving you options to rotate the texture 90, 180 or 270 degrees. You don't have to drag the green pin.
Hey Rooms,
Check out my posting on sketch up, http://forums.taunton.com/fw-knots/messages?msg=38170.1
I go into detail on grain direction in sketch up and where to get suitable wood scans to use in the program. Cheers.
Russ.
http://www.jensenfinefurniture.com
Russ & all,
Thank you for your help. It just seemed with all the cool features in sketch-up that there would be a way to control grain direction. NOW I know. Thanks for the links and samples.
Rooms
Here are some woodgrain textures for you. Save them to a folder on your computer, import them into SketchUp as textures--draw some face to put them on. Then in the Materials browser open the secondary pane. Set the primary pane to In model and the secondary one to Wood. Drag the textures from In model to Wood.
I've got a gazillion others but not all of them tile very well.
Edited 11/15/2007 5:29 pm ET by DaveRichards
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