Cannot align texture

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Hi! I’m trying to align the texture of brick pavers to a single band of pavers at a specific dimension. However, when I position the texture there are 2 problems occurring:

  1. The angle of the texture orientation keeps snapping to the grid and the difference between one rotation degree to the next is too big of a jump so it never aligns. Is there a way to fine tune this or to rotate the texture independently of scale as well? I tried the Enroth texture extension but it does not do anything (maybe a version incompatibility issue?)

  2. No matter what angle I set it at, it still renders to the same orientation iin VRAY. I tried grouping the face with the paver texture and applying the texture to the outside of the group but this did not help.

Please help, this is driving me insane!

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Might be. What version of SketchUp are you using? Please complete your profile.

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Pro 2020 for PC

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Please fix your forum profile. It doesn’t indicate a SketchUp version and says you are using Mac.
[edit: I see you fixed that while I was typing. Thank you.]

You could set a guideline at the desired angle to give you a reference when rotating the texture. To be able to rotate it, the text must be applied to a face, not a group/component container.

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I work 1/2 the time on my Mac which has a different version than my work computer, so I go back and forth.

I rotated the texture on the face itself but it always reverts to the ‘default’ position in vray

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If you have a texture applied to the group and a texture applied to the faces, vray will probably ignore the faces and use the Group texture, therefore negating the alignment on the faces.

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I rotated the texture on the face, color picked it, and placed it onto the group. Is there a different way to do it?

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Why are you putting it on the group? You should be applying the texture to the face(s) inside the group.

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I saw something that said Vray needs the texture applied to the outside of the group, so I was trying to do that. It is on the face as well

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Here is the SKP texture angle vs the Vray rendering

skp
skp1610×827 82.6 KB
vray
vray3200×1800 609 KB

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Did you orient the face of the alley correctly, with the white facing outwards?

That is if you use a displacement map.

If the alley is curved and you want the texture to follow this curve, then transform it into Quads and use ThruPaint to apply the texture.

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