Resolution with Images

[lakersfan]

Hello, I deal with images that have high resolution, but when imported to sketchup the quality is reduced to unusable.

is there an extension or 3rd-party application that can split my image into equal parts so I can import them then stitch them together on sketchup to maintain quality?

And yes maximum texture size is not enough. If there is another solution please let me know!

Thank you,

[Geo]

@lakersfan

is there an extension or 3rd-party application that can split my image into equal parts so I can import them then stitch them together on sketchup to maintain quality?

All you need is a modestly capable raster image editor.
This one is free:

Paint.NET
Paint.NET - Download

[eric-s]

Have you first checked to ensure that SU is set to display the “maximum texture size” in preferences?

[eric-s]

Update - I see that you noted that ‘maximum texture size’ is not enough which I’ll admit confused me as that’s where I went first automatically.

Try posting some images as to what you mean by:

quality is reduced to unusable.

[bifterx]

I had the same question a week or so ago. su downsampnes images(imported) to 1024px.

See this thread…

Sketchup / layout image downsampling

Does anyone have any understanding of how (or to what criteria) SU (or Layout) downsample imported images? I know they do but Im just trying to understand if I can use SU / Layout to prepare some large format UAV survey orthomosaics and do all the boiler plate borders, scalebars, drawing info etc in Layout. They are large images around 1-2 Gb as tif’s and are to be printed and laminated A0 size (and may be bigger) and obviously the print quality needs to be spot-on, hence the question in regard…

[lakersfan]

thank you all for the help. I will try the suggestions.

I found a way…but it sucks trying to stitch pieces manually. There’s always a pixel off.

Much appreciated.