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Adjust textures interactively - SketchUp Tutorial
From the course: Learning SketchUp Free
Adjust textures interactively
- [Instructor] When you apply textures to objects, you do need to make sure that they line up the way that you want. So we can do that using the interactive texture tools. So here I have a house, and if we zoom into the fireplace here, you'll see that the tiles on this wall of the house don't quite line up with the ones on the fireplace. So we've got kind of a gap here. Well, we can fix that just by adjusting that texture. So I've ungrouped this house so we can just select all the faces. So I'm going to select this particular face, and then right click, go down to Texture, and then select Position. Now, we have two options here, Position, Reset Position. Let's go ahead and do Position. And what this does is it brings up all of these little handles that we can use to adjust the texture however we want. So the red one allows you to actually move it, green, rotate, scale, and shear, which is kind of a perspective effect. Now, in this case, the scale and the rotation are fine. So all I…
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