I’m making a toy box for my Granddaughter out of Ambrosia Maple and Walnut. I wanted to try the new materials in SU2025 Pro. Couldn’t find an Ambrosia Maple so I took a picture with my iPhone of the actual material I used. Imported it into SU and clicked the AI button to try and imply some of the new magic.
The AI enhanced material looks much worse than the non-AI material. I’m just a SU neophyte so I’m assuming I may have not done something correct. Could it be my image size?
I’m attaching a picture of the Before AI and the After. The Before image looks pretty good, but the After AI looks very “tiled”.
Any suggestions or thoughts on what I could have done differently?
How large of an area did you photograph on the booard? Presumably not as large as face you are trying to cover. I expect the AI scaled the material so that the grain size is about right and with the image covering a smaller area than the face it’s on, the material must, of course, repeat.
If you are satisfied with the size of the texture as in your first image, I would skip the AI tuning.
Generally when I create my own wood grain materials I photograph entire boards so I wind up with textures that are somewhere between 6 and 14 feet long depending on the species. The width will vary also depending on the size of the log the board came from and what part of the log. For a project such as your chest the panels would surely be glued up from several pieces to get the required width. I would divide the face into regions and use different parts of the wood grain material for each section as if a long board was cross cut and then edge glued.
You can see that in this model. It’s not very subtle because I made this as a demonstration for a tutorial some years ago.
Thank you for the reply and the suggestion. I think that for this one, sticking with the non-AI image works well. For future projects I will follow your sage advice. I seem to remember a FWW video that you did about this. I’ll dig that up. Also, thank you for the kind compliment on the hinges. The actual ones are Rockler Torsion Hinges. Their site had a torsion calculator that allowed me to use the correct number and size.
If I may ask you one other question: have you had any issues with the Wudworx extension in 2025 Pro?
I did do a video on that some time back. If you have difficulty finding it let me know. I’ll see if I can dig it up.
I knew from what little I could see that you had selected those Rockler torsion hinges. They work quite well.
As for the Wudworx extension, no problem whatsoever in SketchUp 2025. It’s one of very few extensions that have continued to behave flawlessly through all versions of SketchUp since it was released.
Thanks again, I’m pretty sure I have that video saved in my YT playlist. I was fortunate enough to find the hinges on the 3D Warehouse. Good to hear on Wudworx.
@colin - thank you, changing the image size to the actual face size worked. It got rid of the tiling.
Resizing the texture to remove the tiling will result in the grain size being larger than life size unless the texture is already the same size or larger than the face it is applied to.
@tripmorris that looks like a reasonable representation even if it is a little oversized.
