Sunday, September 4, 2011

A treasure trove of textures

If you’re into such noble pursuits as geo-modeling or photo-realistic rendering, there’s a good chance that you spend a ridiculous amount of time hunting for photo-textures online. Flickr and other photo sharing sites are goldmines for content, but who has time to compile a folder of bookmarks that point to the best ones?

Our friend John Pacyga, apparently. He’s just posted a long list of his favorite texture sources — for both SketchUp and Photoshop. Some are free, some have Creative Commons licenses, and some cost money, but all are worth browsing. Set aside some time, though; this kind of thing is addictive.

If you’ve found a seamless texture (one that can repeat attractively when you paint it on a surface), here’s how you load it into SketchUp:

Instructions for Windows:

Instructions for Mac:


I found the rock texture in the screenshots above on lee.ponzu’s Flickr Textures set. Want to make your own seamless texture images? These tutorials on YouTube are a good place to start.

Posted by Aidan Chopra, SketchUp Evangelist
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6 comments:

  1. SketcherSeptember 6, 2011 at 10:17 AM

    These sites has a lot of textures: http://www.cgtextures.com/
    http://www.vray-materials.de/

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  2. Thomas ThomassenSeptember 6, 2011 at 11:23 AM

    Step1 for Windows highlights the wrong button. It points to the Dropper button.

    "Create Material" is further up.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 6, 2011 at 11:50 AM

    @Thomas: Thanks for noticing! I've fixed my error. Take care, Aidan

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  4. UnknownOctober 16, 2011 at 3:45 AM

    I made about ten brick texture of actual bricks available in Australia so I could show my clients how they look on the walls. It took a fair bit of time but I managed to keep the file size small & the resolution high and no repetition when you zoom out . You can download them for free here www.rubysketch.com type in bricks in the search.

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  5. Milliscent MorganMay 8, 2012 at 5:35 PM

    I like this post but still I'm looking forward about circuit board design.

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  6. JonLOctober 28, 2012 at 10:34 PM

    Here is one more Texture site www.tmgtextures.com. The site has over 14,000 textures. Most of them can be directly applied to models.

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