Large texture and size limits

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  1. Is there a recommended way to worke with large / huge rasters in Sketchup?
  2. What is the maximum recommended pixel resolution? 1000x1000 ? 4000x4000?
  3. Can you create overviews and tiles and only load detailed tiles when “zoomed in” ?
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By default, SketchUp downsamples all imported larger textures and images except PhotoMatch backgrounds to 1024 x 1024 pixels. If you check the “Use maximum texture size” in the Window menu>Preferences>OpenGL dialog this increases to the maximum your graphics card can handle.

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It recommended to limit texture to your highest requirement…

there’s a great plugin called ‘goldilocks’ that helps you judge which are too small, too large or just right for a given view…

you can’t in the ‘model’ as each face can only have one texture… but I suspect one of the reason for the move to openGL 3 is it’s automatic mipmapping in the view…

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Thank you Anssi for the clarification. So if I want a square object to have a texture of 10240 x 10240 I need to split that object into 10 x 10 objects and assign a different texture 1024 x 1024 for each of them. I know the hardware is the limit here with respect to what works or not. Trying to find the “good enough” resolution for each case.

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As said, if you enable large textures in Preferences the tiles you need may be larger. I am not sure, maybe someone from the SU Team could enlighten us, if what an old ARTICLE by @ChrisDizon states, that the absolute maximum Sketchup supports, if enabled by your graphics card, is 4092 x 4092.

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Thanks John!
Goldilocks looks like it can help - thank you! I am

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