Scaling materials

[PDSRDM]

Hi,

this is probably a very newbe question, but I'm reading about downloading and converting materials everywhere, but no one is talking about applying them.

I recently downloaded a couple of VRay materials. One of them being a wooden floor and another one a brick wall. After some playing with them I found out that the wooden floor could be scaled in the regular "sketchup-way", yet the brick wall couldn't. Now this wall shows up like brown and white dots instead of bricks, meaning its way to small.

Also, the wooden floor shows in the actual model, while the brick wall shows as dark grey in the model and gets it's right color only after rendering.

I've checked and compared both material settings, yet I couldn't find any differences there.

Any help with this problem would be much appreciated

[dalomar_cg]

Re: Scaling materials

I'd try reapplying that brick texture within a new material. There might be something in how that brick material is added that may be preventing SU from reading the texture in as part of a SU material. As you've seen, you can scale the textures as you would normally in SketchUp as long as the texture is recognized by the SU material.

The other thing that might be coming into play here is that you might be applying that material on top of a component or group. In order to make sure that materials appear properly with components and groups, its really important to apply the materials within the component or group.

[PDSRDM]

Re: Scaling materials

Thanks for your reply. The weird thing is though, that I downloaded some of the materials from the vray.com website, yet they're not scalable...