Architectural_Design_with_SketchUp

Chapter 5 Rendering in SketchUp
6. Although the texture already looks good, its positioning could be improved so that the
board alignment looks more accurate. To do this, right-click on the texture you just placed
and select Texture k Position from the context menu. This gives you SketchUp’s alignment
pins. As you can see in the image shown here, you now have pins to move, rotate,
skew, and stretch the texture. For our purpose, just use the move pin (click and drag) to
position the texture to your liking.
If you work a lot with textures in SketchUp (be it for rendering or geo-modeling), it is
imperative that you become familiar with the pin positioning system. You can find more
information about it in SketchUp’s help system.
For now, keep in mind that you can click-drag to move, skew, or rotate the texture. If you
want to position a texture relative to reference points, another method is to click and
position (don’t drag) the pins and then click-drag them to where you want the reference
points to end up. This latter method takes some practice, however.
To reduce the visual impact of patterns that may appear when you use some of SketchUp’s
tileable textures, rotate them slightly. This is especially helpful when the texture tiling
occurs along a straight edge in your model.
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