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Inefficient texture arrangement in Material editor

Gary's texture formatting tricks seem very effective for this kind of situation, but it seem's like a Sketchup side plugin or extension might be a more appropriate way to apply the required edits, rather than trying to accomplish this through MCX.
 
=rk= said:
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/th...-in-material-editor.439988/page-2#post-771205

Gary's texture formatting tricks seem very effective for this kind of situation, but it seem's like a Sketchup side plugin or extension might be a more appropriate way to apply the required edits, rather than trying to accomplish this through MCX.
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Sorry I did not make it sufficiently clear in my original post; I have now edited that post for greater clarity ...here: :pushpin:

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/th...gement-in-material-editor.439988/#post-771058


Please note that I did not recommend any modifications to be made via MCX.

While there are indeed 3rd party Ruby plugin scripts which can further enhance the options one has when performing a "Make Unique Texture" operation in Sketchup, in this particular case it is not required- nor is it suggested that one 'needs'- to use such a plugin ...in my posted work-flow above, which uses the default feature. ;)


PS: Additional options are available via Aerilius' "Make Unique Texture ++" Ruby plugin script: :idea:

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=41441

GaryGB
 
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I got the model working fine now. :D

Magdeburg_Breiter_Weg_1_bearbeitet_2_0.jpg

As you can see on left I used the "Make Unique Texture" feature in Sketchup. This was necessary because I didn't find the other 2 places of __auto_5.jpg (one is on top of the roof, the other on the other side). Is there a way solve this without "Make a unique texture"?

Another question: in the Material editor you can resize the seperate textures, but only in certain resolutions, which maybe have an other aspect ratio than the original texture. If I do so, will the aspect ratio of the texture in the model also wrong or will MCX adjust this automatically?

GaryGB said:
PS: Additional options are available via Aerilius' "Make Unique Texture ++" Ruby plugin script: :idea:

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=41441
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Cool, I'll try it. Maybe this is the perfect way for me. If I could arrange all textures into one texture in sketchup, I could export the X-Plane Object directly from Sketchup!
 
MCX is focused on texture that have sizes with a power of two, since FS requires that. If you resize a texture that has another ratio this will not affect the visual results, the texture mapping remains valid.
 
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