SU to Blender Texture Question

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I’ve watched a few things on importing to blender and I’m not sure if I’m missing something. I’ve created a simple room in sketchup, but when I export/import to blender I just get a very cartoony, edgeless model with no materials/textures. I’ve tried both OBJ and DAE and it’s generally the same. I paid for some website that has Hi-Res textures and materials with texture maps, used those textures and still the same outcome. I get some muted colors, just no materials or textures.

Any advice? Thanks.

Here’s the SU model:

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Here’s how the OBJ import looks:

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Here’s how the DAE import looks:

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There is an importer add on for blender. I will try to locate it. BRB

It can be found Here . You will have to save the file as a 2020 version to import it. It will NOT work with files saved as 2021 version.

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The one I’ve seen linked in the forums no longer exists. I don’t know if there’s another.

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See my previous post!

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So I’ve got to save it as a v.2020, then from that point export it using this plug in?

Edit: I’m not sure what to do with the files in that ZIP files

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Ok, it took a while, but I got the add-on installed and imported the 2020 saved skp.

I see this – still no textures:

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See Viewport Shading

ble-04

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That helped a lot. Thank you.

Now I have to learn how to actually render the model

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I wanted to follow up with a error I keep getting over and over. The problem is I get it work eventually, but it’s by luck/accident and I’m not really doing anything different except saving it over and over until it works.

I am saving my skp files as the 2020 edition, even though I use SU 2021 pro

Here’s what I’m seeing:

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E: I’m using the sketchup importer add-on in blender to import skp files directly.
E2: I don’t even have to resave it. I can just keep ignoring the error, and then on like the 3-4th import attempt it will just work.

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Did you get version 0.21 of the importer? Also is the file location of the folder referenced in the first line of the error a valid folder?

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Yes 0.21.1

And I’m assuming that’s where Blender installed the add-on to. It exists, but it’s not a folder I ever would use manually … getting to find it required unhiding system folders.

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Are these files in the folder?
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Yes, they’re all there.

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I am at a loss as to what is happening. My setup does not produce errors with the plugin.

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I’m doing another model now … and 2 error messages and 3rd try it worked. I did nothing different, just kept trying to import the same file. Weird

E: And after I imported the 1st skp file, I tried a second and third skp file into the same blender model and they worked first try.

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