Texture size

[ACastro]

Applying textures - "differences"



Ciao!

[thomthom]

Yea, I often do that. Apply low res textures in the main diffuse channel as that's the texture that will be saved with the SketchUp file. Then I make that transparent with TexAColor and add a high-res diffuse underneath - which is just linked to the file on disk. Make the SketchUp model much more responsive.

[pierrot2]

good idea!
Thanks for this method, this will be very usefull!

[Jackson_cg]

Excellent tip!

/Jackson

[pierrot2]

How do you do this method?
Like this?

[Jackson_cg]

No, you have to load a 0,0,0 white "TexAColor" into the transparency slot. This tricks SU into displaying the Diffuse Layer 1 low-res texture while V-Ray renders the Diffuse Layer 2 high-res texture. It also means your skp file will be much smaller as only the low-res texture is saved while the high-res one is simply linked. Because of this however, it can make moving skp files across networks complicated as all linked files and paths must be replicated.

[pierrot2]

ok thank you

[sebastien_berthier]

nice! thanks for the tip