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This is the trickiest part of the whole work! For me, a good way of looking if a texture is out of scale, mostly with grass textures, is zooming in and checking the size of the grass itself. You can retrieve the texture by using the native material editor of Sketchup (the paint bucket tool) and click the eyedrop tool for getting the material to the editor.Īlso you can adjust the size of the texture. That will apply the texture to that very face.Īs you can see in the image below, I also applied the texture to the other faces of the extruded plane. Give it a small scale as I show in the next image, and then click again. But… surprise! After clicking the mouse is going to work into the scale mode for the texture something that can be really important for tiled textures, which in this case is not something to worry about. It is very important that you remember to tick the option “Use as a texture” before loading it into the scene.Īfter selecting that option and loading the texture, you will notice that the texture will show up as an image in the viewport, allowing you to click wherever you want to apply it. We go to File>Import and retrieve the location of the texture file. Assigning Realistic Grass Texture to the Ground Planeįirst we will open the texture for using it in our model. But notice it needs to be in proper proportions to the other geometry of your model, otherwise it won’t give that “real feeling”. Give the height you feel comfortable with. This way, when the material is applied, it would look like as a grass-carpet.
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For this tutorial I am using Sketchup Pro 2013 + Vray 2.0Īfter creating the plane, let’s extrude it a little bit.
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Let’s open Sketchup and create a plane for applying the texture.
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By the way: You are free to use exactly this one also for your projects (even commercial) so make sure to check out our extensive photo texture libary.Īs you can see, the file size of this grass texture we can use in Sketchup is 707 kb! Totally OK for our use! Starting with our Sketchup Grass Scenery It is quite even without too many different looks over the area, but looks realistic – all in all a very good texture to use for architecture renderings etc. You simply do only need a large texture if your camera will be very (I mean very very) close to the textured material.įor the next steps of this tutorial I am going to work with this texture below found at tonytextures. Sometimes using a big size texture can only bring you a headache, and mostly because it will look out of scale and you will lose time in adjusting its scale for adapting the texture for your work. Why? Because big size textures will only add more “weight” to your scene and that can be annoying especially if you have too many polygons at your scene for rendering. Just with a normal size texture (around 800 kb) is more than enough.
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What you need to keep in mind is that textures don’t need to be as big as 2mb files. If you are wondering where to start, a good way is to check your material library in order to have the proper grass textures for the render works.Īt our free tonytextures texture gallery you will find plenty of good grass textures for you to choose: Finding realistic grass texture for rendering So I do not use fancy fur plugins or other rather complex solutions (that without a doubt create very good results) but rather follow on a quick and easy apporach here to not at least present a solution with reasonable overall project and rendering time.
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When talking about photorealistic architecture renderings, one of the key elements is the use of vegetation – simply to bring life your scenery… In this Sketchup tutorial I am going to show you how to create a quite realistic grass rendering in Sketchup with the help of a good texture.