Create a seamless tiling texture in SketchUp - Skill Builder

a sketch uppers this is Aaron a couple weeks ago I posted a skill builder on how to take image a texture that wasn't seamless and how to break it up and apply it across a bunch of surfaces had several questions on how it would actually go about making it a seamless texture that was not what the intent of that was it was not a seamless texture was actually a bunch of individual groups of textures I guess you'd say cuz it wasn't it wasn't a rectangle I couldn't tile it over a bunch of spaces it would've looked weird so I thought maybe we'll do something similar take a similar texture and make it tight level inside a Sketchup no external photo editing software I looked on Google there's a whole bunch of tutorials on how to tile images inside of Photoshop or even or something like that so don't ask I'm not gonna show you how to do some photoshop this is Sketchup channel of course I know that by saying that the first question down below will be can you show me how to do in Photoshop no no I won't but we'll take a look right now at how to do that only inside of Sketchup so let's hop in first thing I'm doing of course is go up to file and import and import the material I want to use I'm just gonna import it as an image so I'm going to pull on this wood floor pull it in just drop it down to origin double click to place it and that will bring it in as an image I can right click then of course and I can say explode exploding an image just creates a surface with a texture on it you can see right away that big texture showed up right here in my list of colors in them in the model alright so what I'm going to do is I'm going to come in here and I'm going to make a bunch of tiles to start with and there are a bunch of ways to make a tiling texture you can see right now if I grab this edge right here and I pull it out that is how it's currently going to tile so you can see this is not a smooth transition from one piece of wood to another so this is not a tiling texture so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna come in here and i'ma start by picking a single rectangle single piece of wood so I'm just gonna go like that actually my scoot this line over just a touch all right this is board number one so I'm gonna take this I'm gonna hit move with the modifier key to copy and I'm gonna copy over here this is my number one board now I'm gonna grab these four lines click click click click and I'm gonna move them to where my next board is gonna come from so I'm gonna grab this darker one right here I'm gonna click right here all right now you'll notice immediately a couple things happen one is that this is not exactly lined up it's not lined up perfectly it also is bigger than the image so it kind of went off the edge it did fill the surface and it used the texture that I had before actually this is probably the tiling texture so that's actually the end of this board over here being tiled to the next material that's not gonna work obviously so here's I'm gonna do I'm going to start by erasing this line right here I don't need that line this rectangle is how big I need my board to be so I'm gonna do right now is right click inside this rectangle go to texture and then I'm going to click position alright position is going to give me my fixed pins what I'm do is I'm going to just click and release on each of these and drag them and put them in the corner of the image not the corner of the lines I've drawn but the corner of the image of this one board I am aware that this board is slightly shorter than what I want the actual image to be so I'm going to stretch it a little bit by doing this but that'll be okay so I'm just gonna stick each of these pins into a corner of the image of this board once they're all in there then I'm gonna click and drag them once one at a time to the corners of the board till I get that and actually know what I don't like the way that ends right so I want to pull this one just just past like that all right that was good so when I click out here the important part is that when I move this board out I bring it over here that looks good looks like it's own thing I don't have any of it images of the other sides of the other pieces going on so that's good all right from here now I'm gonna go ahead and grab maybe four or five more of these boards and then we'll move on to the next step okay so there we go I now have six boards here pulled out of distorted versions of the original texture so you can see over here this texture is still the only texture it's in here so the next step we'll do now is I'm actually going to make each of these into its own unique texture and this is simple you just click make unique as you do that each one's going to actually show up as a separate board over here see that so each one is gonna show up on its own so if you wanted if you are so inclined you could actually stop at this point right now and go into your model and actually use these individual textures and just lay them down board by board I don't wanna do that I want to create a seamless texture so I'm going to take this one step further I'm going to take one of these and I'm gonna copy it over to the side and I'm gonna grab another one and I'm grab that a corner option and stick right here and then maybe one more maybe this one right here and that's going to be the width of my final texture it's going to be this wide so what I need now is I need to put another row that is actually going to tile so I'm gonna grab this dark one I'm using this one because it has the most distinct texture really easy to see if this is tiling properly I'm gonna grab it by the midpoint so right in the middle and I'm going to line that midpoint up with the edge of that previous side I'm gonna take the exact same material exact same texture same board put it on the other side then I can fill in the inside here with two more boards alright now I'm going to go make my next the next row it's gonna be right above that I have this one by the middle right above there maybe I'll cut this one this is where you can do your own thing you know how to make your materials look good alright it's something like that what no this looks a little too close to the other one doesn't it how about this guy right here let's gonna grab this put it right there now we do one more row one more row with a piece sticking out I'm gonna grab this and we've got this one right here here on one end I make sure this one lines up directly with this one below and then I'm going to take it and copy it right over to the other side and then we'll fill in the inside a couple more tiles and one more oops I didn't copy that's okay we're nearing the finish line I'm showing you these tiles to be separate anymore right now all right with that done now what I'm going to do is I'm gonna draw a line right up here so I'm going to cut two tiles off on either end get rid of them over there get rid of them over there and now what I can do is I can select this whole little bit right here right click and say combine textures that's gonna take each of the individual textures that I put onto here and make it one big texture it's going to ask me do I get rid of those interior edges I'm gonna hit yes and now we're gonna do a test to test and see if the seamlessness worked I'm just gonna grab this end line and move it and look at that there's my my tile that was broken this one's supposed to break this isn't supposed to break that is the but I can actually make this big and my tiles repeat now again opposed to this one over here if I repeat this one you can tell immediately that's not right that line is not not not looking seamless in fact it probably goes vertically to not so much but yeah you can tell that that's not a seamless texture that is not tiling properly this one right here now is a brand new texture so this texture right here is what we would want in fact if you wanted to you could actually delete all these original images and just use this one material right here so hopefully that helps like I said we had that question quite a few times a couple weeks ago so that's how I would go about obviously it's not the only way to do it there's other ways I said there's always outside of Sketchup you could do too but that is the way that I came up with to as easy as possible create a tiling texture the inside of Sketchup if you like that go ahead and click like down below so we know if you want to get notified when more videos like this come out click Subscribe we released a couple videos a week and we'd love to let you know when we let a new one out most importantly though I'll leave a comment like I said this whole video was created because of comments we had on the previous video love to hear what you guys would love to see out of us and we like making videos but we like making them a lot more when they show something that you want to see thank you you

Channel: SketchUp

Views: 37,181

Rating: 4.9537778 out of 5

Keywords: SketchUp, 3D modeling, Texture, Material, Tiling, Tile, Seamless, Wood, Flooring, Photoshop, Paint Bucket, skill builder

Id: z-4K6xDZFfI

Length: 10min 37sec (637 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 23 2019