You're Using Wood Materials Wrong (And How To Fix Them) 

What are your tricks for making realistic wood textures?

The idea of texture blocks is fantastic. I’ve had so many projects where I’ve needed to go around and rotate textures forever just to get it to look right. Great idea!

Great video Tyson, very useful idea to use a library of texture blocks, I'd never thought of that.

Thanks. This is a great idea. I have been using Sketchup since the beginning and hadn't thought of this. I will try using it in my workflow. I think it may make things a lot quicker!

Blocks are a great idea! Personally, I use the rotate 90deg option as quicker but same result in the end. Thanks

Great idea!

so helpful! Thanks!

GREAT, Thanks

Great idea! Thanks

Thanks for this great workaround for wood textures on wooden furnitures. Been having difficulty in aligning tuxtures the way it should be but now will utilize this method in coming sketchup projects. Doube thumbs up.

Great video. Would like to see chapter 2 of video showing how to get an end grain texture and apply it correctly to board. Again, very valuable video to a sketchup woodworker. Thanks!

Excellent instruction. Didn’t know you can create your own wood textures

Nice technique...

Good stuff Tyson! :)

Texture blocks, genius 💡

Cool and usefull thanks

Interesting...especially if you work a lot with the same kind of wood/materials !

That. Is. Genius👍🏼😎👍🏼

Awesome stuff Tyson, the oak flooring I just used that exact product in a house. So if I make a scrapbook of parts how do I get it to carry over from one version of sketchup to the next?

Das var ein amazink video! Sank you!!

Huh. didn't know about unfixing the pins. good tip !

This was really usefull, thank you!

Nice video and nice haircut too Tyson 👍

thats helpful

Nice work, Tyson. I create my own wood grain materials from images of full length boards. Typically somewhere between 3 and 8 boards from a single log with each one being between 6 and 14 feet long and between 6 and 16 inches wide depending on the species so I have lots of choices and I can avoid repetitve grain details. For end grain there's usually some part of the face grain texture that can be tweaked and rotated to look like end grain. The wood I photograph is unfinished and it's fairly simple in an external image editor to make adjustments to give the appearance the wood has been stained, varnished, fumed, pickled, etc. And of course I save the materials in collections by species for later use..

Also a simpler way to rotate texture and keep scale the same is to right click...texture/position/rotate 90

Hi, are you able to do this in the Web version of SketchUp?

Great stuff Tyson. Now how did Tyson get back so quickly from basecamp'22 and start recording?

I just place the textures on the surface and when I needed rotate only once. Then I can sample the rotated texture. The idea of the blocks is good, but when heving so many wood textures in my library and then safe all the blocks too, I guess it will become like you can't see the forest for the trees anymore.

Hi. 10:00 how to copy and rotate to new face. Thank you!

Thanks, Student's Thailand

Do we need any add on tool to edit d texture? There is no texture position when i right click?

Next video needed…creating a SEAMLESS texture, please!

For that there must be another function or plugin. As you did, it is time-consuming and complicated, and the result is not attractive.