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I found a great site that has some high resolution wood textures that I’ve been using in sketchup. If you go download my thoreson sketchup plan I made for you guys in my projects and just copy and paste it a few times like I did in this picture, you can mix and match woods up how you like and see how they look in 3d first. Here’s the site:
http://www.defcon-x.de/wordpress/textures/
Just download whatever texture you want and in Sketchup make a new “list” in your materials panel called “User” or whatever. Then, select color and choose “new texture”. Import the file that you downloaded and it should automatically size it just fine. Hit okay and you should be good to go. You can apply it to any surface. Just a hint…. you can use this same process by taking a picture of wood with your digital camera and then importing it the same way.
-- Thomas Porter, Phoenix, AZ, www.thomasporter.com
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MsDebbieP
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posted 963 days ago
very cool—- really gives you an idea of the different looks you can create.
Cool
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Bob Babcock
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posted 963 days ago
Nice find…reminds me I need to post all the links I have to sites like this. There are literally 1,000’s of them out.
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scottb
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posted 963 days ago
Oh the options abound! This will really help narrow down wood selection, what a great tool to save time and lumber!
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lclashley
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posted 963 days ago
Thanks for the link. The wood textures that come with sketchup are limited. Your link has a ton.
Bill
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posted 963 days ago
Very cool Thomas. With all the Sketch-Up items popping up, looks like we need to create that Forum for Sketch-Up.
I agree with Scott, this will help identify how you want the table to look. What a great help.
-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com
Muzhik
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posted 963 days ago
Great find! Thanks for the link. This helps me double, since it’s in German. Now I might be a little more able to communicate with my hardwoods supplier here (I moved to Germany last spring/summer).
NormiteLou
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posted 850 days ago
Hi Thomas Porter, nice blog you have.
Thanks for the link to the textures.
I had about 30 self scanned species of wood for rendering.
I found that scanning in a flat bed works better than a digital photo, but It is a lot of work.
My computer took a dump and I lost them.
This will save me alot of time.
I brought a few into my MTD6.0 and rendered a few patterns I designed.
Excellent! On real photo raytrace the renderings actually look real!
-- Normite Lou
JR
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posted 689 days ago
This is a great find! I’ve been looking for other ways to add more reality to my Sketchup designs. Thanks!
-- -- JR
Alejandro Galo Moreno
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posted 57 days ago
Thanks, good link.
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