If you have ever brought in custom material inside a Sketchup, you might note that you have to be really careful with the kind of images you use and need it in order to do this. A lot of time, when you need to do the flooring and you go to the website to download flooring material, they give you a swatch of flooring material. The problem is bringing the material and dropping it on the face, are you get the tiling effect. If you bump the size up, notice how the floor tile image is tiling. In a sense, you get really pronounced edges in it and make it look weird and unrealistic. The way does Sketchup shows images is basically takes whatever texture images it has and repeats them over and over again. The problem is the image that you download is designed to repeat it over and over again. So this gives you an unprofessional look inside Sketchup.

There is two ways to fixed it. So the first is

Searching for Seamless Texture

When you are looking for different materials, look for Seamless Texture. So if you search for a texture, for example, you want to search for Seamless Texture material. Even better, you want to go to a texture website that really and already has those pre-made textures and designs to it. So you don’t necessarily want to go and download any images. That will not give you the best result.

Downloading Seamless Texture

You can download from these following website

• 3DAssets.one
• Patten8
• Ava7patten
• Texture Palace

Materialize – Texture Editing Tool

There is a tool, which is liked by all and is really helpful and is free is called Materialized. This is a tool that is designed to simplify the process of making texture Seamless as well as simplifying material for rendering. Basically, what it does, allows you to bring in an image and helps you to render maps. It can only create Seamless Texture if it has maps.

You can download it from the given link below:-

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1) Use Seamless Texture

It is probably the most important thing when we are creating material in Sketchup is we must be sure to use Seamless textures. Therefore, the seamless texture is a texture that basically are images that don’t tile in the same way. Basically, when images are created or materials are created inside Sketchup, they are repeating an image across a face. This makes the material or texture look unrealistic. So the first thing we do is, when we are importing a material, we want to make sure that the textures are Seamless.

2) Manage Material Resolution

Tip two is, we need to manage the texture resolution, whenever we import. Before importing a texture, we should keep in mind the resolution, for example when we download a texture, it has a different resolution like from 1 kilobyte to 8 kilobytes. If you look at it, it has a different file size. If we have to download the lowest resolution texture, the file size would be 1.75 megabytes. So if we download this then this material will have a lower resolution in the model. On the other hand, if we download the file which is 8 kilobytes, the file size will be 388 megabytes. So that means this file will give us a realistic look at our model. We also have to keep in mind about rendering. This is because our file should not weigh too much so that it doesn’t create difficulties to render it.

3) Use the proper material scale

When we are applying material, remember we are stimulating so that it has a real world dimension. Just set the material up to a proper size so they line up with real world objects to look more realistic.

4) Use proper UV Mapping

Tip four is as our object becomes more complex, consider using UV mapping or material help extension. UV Mapping can help us in mapping, scaling, or rotating the material without complicating it. This will help us to fasten our work.

5) Download PBR Material

If we are going to render, then make sure to download PBR Material. PBR Material guides to render the material in a realistic way. PBR Material has multiple different maps associated with it. A normal map makes the object look bumpy but a PBR map is a guide that helps render to make the object look real.

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