Projecting a texture to a curved surface

[JMZ]

Hi all,

I’m very new to Sketchup and relatively new to programming in general so I’m sorry if there is an easy answer to this question. I understand how to project a texture onto a curved surface from a reference face in Sketchup to avoid texture stretching (manually in the Sketchup Field/non-ruby API), but I’m wondering if it is possible to project a texture with a ruby script.

I’ve learned how to apply a custom texture to whichever face I want with code from browsing the forums, but I can’t seem to find any way to project the texture using script. Is this possible with a Ruby script? I’ve read that the command for choosing the direction for projection from a face does not work properly.

This is my first post on here so I don’t know if I’ve described my situation well enough or if I’ve provided all the necessary information. I’m using Sketchup Make 2017.

Any advice will be helpful,
Thanks

[jimhami42]

I don’t know if this will help address your question. but you might find these two plugins useful:

https://sites.google.com/site/spirixcode/code/spirix_textured_cylinder.rb

and

https://sites.google.com/site/spirixcode/code/spirix_textured_sphere.rb

[JMZ]

Hi jimhami,

It seems like the examples you provided work great for faces created from arcs, but my curved surfaces are created from a followme command which seems to create multiple faces on the curve and when a texture is applied to it the texture shows up all choppy.

Thank you very nuch for the examples though.