How to apply default material?

Developers Ruby API
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I am building a plugin to export/import models. For default material, I always get wrong result below:

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The model has only one image material. The importing steps:

  1. Create the material.
  2. Create the instance.
  3. instance.material = [the material]

Did I miss something in the steps? What is the correct practice to apply a default material?

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Just set the material to nil and you’re good.

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confused, if set the material to nil, no texture at all.

4

That’s right, if no specific material is applied, the value is nil.
Then the “Default” material is applied.

5

I only create the default material on the instance. The faces in the instance(definition) have no material (yes, their material = nil).

6

Perhaps too simple as assumption, but - without really seeing your model and code - I guess: :thinking: :blush:

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I see that your definition of “default material” differs from the Sketchup default material, which is nil. :wink:

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What do you mean by default material?

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I tried a demo model 306test2.skp (292.5 KB)

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There is only a material in a group. I exported the material and restored it without uvs for faces. But got the different result:

p2

The material was not properly applied on faces. I wanted SU to render the material on groups/instances correctly. What information did I miss in the process?

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I found the problem that the size of the original picture was 0.200.20m, but it changed to 0.250.25m. How can I get and set the correct size of the texture?

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Solved! It is the size issue of texture. Restoring the width and height of the texture picture, the imported model is correct. No UV issues.