5
Creating Beautiful Custom Materials
Knowing how to use SketchUp to create geometry is important. But knowing how to use stock and custom materials to take your models to the next level is essential as well. In this chapter, we will dive into how good materials help to make a great model and some of the best practices for creating and working with custom materials.
In this chapter, we will cover the following:
- Importing images for custom materials
- Organizing and applying custom materials
- Deforming textures
- Applying materials to curves
- Avoiding common mistakes with materials
Technical requirements
In this chapter, it is assumed that you have access to SketchUp Pro, any image file, and the Taking SketchUp to the Next Level – Chapter 5.skp ...
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