Inadvertently I have applied/projected an aerial photo texture on a terrain.
Alas on a wrong face side.
As I have noticed in Twinmotion the texture has disappeared.
I would be really thankful for some piece of advice how to resolve this issue in a simplest way.
This is how to flip the faces side without loosing the projected terrain texture on a facing side.
I have tried to use a SU native option ‘reverse face’ but the aerial projected texture has been removed (changed probably the side of the face).
The problem is more complicated because of multiple irregular meshes with the texture.
One solution I have found was to apply the same texture on the opposite side (texture picker-drop) and then reverse face.
Perhaps there is any better (automated) solution to fix my stupid initial action. I have finished the model and there are quite many groups, faced to be fixed.
Thank you in advance for your advice and guidance, suggestion, etc.
I don’t think there will be a simpler solution than this.
Renderer plugins and game engines usually ignores backfaces -for performance issues i think-
You can try applying a light pink color for your backfaces, so you distinguish it better.
Try this… paste the block of code into a file called PaintInsideSurfaces.rb, and move it into C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2017\SketchUp\Plugins
Start sketchup, right click an object, and there will be a menu item called ‘Centaur → Paint Inside Surfaces’.
All inside surfaces will be painted to match the outside surface (including textured surfaces), if you have a surface unpainted on the outside, then the inside surface will end up unpainted.
# PaintInsideSurfaces 1.0
# Copy the material, and texture, from the front to the back of each face
# 12 May 2011
#
require 'sketchup.rb'
class PaintInsideSurfaces
def PaintInsideSurfaces::PaintGroupFaces(entities, textureWriter)
entities.each { |e|
if e.class == Sketchup::Group
PaintGroupFaces(e.entities, textureWriter)
end
if e.class == Sketchup::Face
hasTexture = false
face = e
face.back_material = face.material
if face.material != nil
if face.material.texture != nil
hasTexture = true
ptarray = []
uvhelper = face.get_UVHelper(true, true, textureWriter)
face.outer_loop.vertices.each { |vert|
uvq = uvhelper.get_front_UVQ(vert.position)
ptarray.push(vert.position)
ptarray.push(uvq)
}
begin
face.position_material face.back_material,ptarray,false
rescue
end
end
end
end
if e.class == Sketchup::Edge
e.material = nil
end
}
end
def PaintInsideSurfaces::Start()
Sketchup.active_model.start_operation 'Paint inside surfaces',true ,false ,false
textureWriter=Sketchup.create_texture_writer
Sketchup.active_model.definitions.each { |component|
PaintGroupFaces(component.entities, textureWriter)
}
entities=Sketchup.active_model.entities
PaintGroupFaces(entities, textureWriter)
Sketchup.active_model.commit_operation
Sketchup.active_model.active_view.invalidate
end
end # Class PaintInsideSurfaces
unless file_loaded?(__FILE__)
UI.add_context_menu_handler do |menu|
submenu = menu.add_submenu("&Centaur Tools")
submenu.add_item("Paint Inside Surfaces") { PaintInsideSurfaces.Start() }
end
end
file_loaded(__FILE__)
I really do thank you for your guidance. I deeply appreciate it.
Thank you Centaur for the plugin I will keep it in the safest place.
Thank you filibis for the suggestion. I have applied this colorful scheme for a long time. Alas I have not pay attention enough to respect it correctly. Most of the time I work with Vray where there are no such material/texture problems (in principle).
I have finally duplicate material/aerial photo projected on meshes and the model finally was accepted by Twinmotion.
I think it is enough to just duplicate the texture without reversing faces afterwards. A rendering piece of software ™ will read the face side (in my case - back one) ignoring the back (pink - in your setting) facing one.
My best regards with repeated thanks.
PS
Why texturing has to be so complicated - one face on both side (?) would not do the expected results?
