Wood textures lifeless in rhino compared to sketchup

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I’m trying to quickly model an external facade in Rhino for a client, and my partner was able to make a much better result in 2 minutes in sketchup due to the simplicity and effectiveness of the materials there. The wood in sketchup is miles better. The material that sketchup uses is actual boards in a pattern that more accurately resembles an installed wood facade. Ugh. I hate it but I think my experiment with rhino might be running out of steam. I keep finding these instances where using it as an architecture tool is not as easy as many options in the same price bracket.

If someone has a resource that can help me not lose the faith, I’d love it.

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What material library are you using? What are you rendering with? Are you using bump maps, reflectivity maps, normal maps or just a diffuse image?

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I haven’t used sketchup but it sounds like you want something that looks like this?

Googling textures gets e.g. Textures for 3D, graphic design and Photoshop!
Download an image and apply as a ‘picture material’ all in about 2mins :wink:

If you want to go deeper bumps and normals et al will give you increasing control.

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Can you post a 3dm file and examples of what looked good from SU and what you’re getting with Rhino?

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I’m using the standard Rhino Renderer with the standard materials generally. The same as I’d be using with SU.

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Thanks, this is helpful. I’ll check it out.

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If I get enough time to create that, I will. Thanks for the interest and follow up.