Bump map preview for procedural textures and edit UV placement

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Hello,
I was wondering if it is possible to implement a way to preview textures in viewport to preview bump map placement when ‘texture placement’ ‘Repeat U/V’ edited? in this screenshot the infinity wall is using bitmap ‘/materials\Liquid\maps\Water_A_Height_01.jpg’ from preset material, ‘Waves_A_01_200cm’. I’m editing uv’s to give a waterfall effect and would love to be able to preview in viewport with having to trial and error renders. The pool water surface with texture helper showing is ‘Waves_Proc_01’ preset using ‘Noise A’…again, would be great to be able to preview this in viewport.

Thanks yall!
GD

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Unfortunately, the SketchUp viewport cannot preview V-Ray procedural textures. To accommodate proper mapping functionality a placeholder texture (texture helper) is automatically assigned.
You can, however, assign any Bitmap texture as viewport texture by activating the “eye” button below its preview window.
See also https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/…ayBRDF-Binding

Additionally, you can use viewport-render a specified region while editing your scene: Chaos Docs
Keep in mind the overlay opacity can be easily adjusted using ‘Ctrl’ plus ‘+’ or ‘-’ .

Kind regards,
Peter