Anybody know how to pack all of Sketchup materials...

#1 There must be someone who's used Sketchup before and has run into this problem.

Come on, anybody?

#2 I know I had problems with sketchup loading textures, but I never tried packing them into a single texture. It's been so long since I used sketchup. You may try looking at this thread for some ideas. Best of luck.

#3 Thanks, but it's not what I'm looking for.
I just want to pack all the 8 materials into one UV Texture/Material rather than redo all the texturing and UV mapping in 3DMax.

#4 You'll need some 'other' 3D applications for this... This sort of remapping and combining of bitmaps and UV's is not so trivial...I know of only two programs that currently do this procedure.

You could always take the art into a modeling package and rework the UV's and export...

#5 That's what I'm trying to avoid.

What are those two programs that you speak of?

#6 DAZ3D...has the "Texture Atlas" plugin which does exactly as I describe: combines bitmaps into a single bitmap and reassigns the UV coordinates to each particular 'section' of the combined bitmap.

GreenbriarStudio's "ToolBox" has this feature as well.

How you get them working in your pipeline is the tricky bit...;)!

#7 Thank you.
I will look into those programs and see what they offer.

#8 Here's a link to anybody that's interested:

http://tom.drastic.net/stuff/sketchup--3ds-max/