Projecting an Image Onto a Sphere in SketchUp

[@OveToranger]

2 very interesting solutions. Excellent start on good tips in 2024 !

[@paulweston8184]

Thanks for putting in the time and effort to make these videos. I'm not trying to be a troll, but if you want to be accurate, the number on a pool ball only appears once. It doesn't appear duplicated on the opposing hemisphere. Your tutorials and the wealth of SketchUp knowledge you share have been an invaluable source of information. Thanks again.

[@keggyification]

Thanks Aaron, very helpful. Happy New Year to you and the Sketchup team.

[@chrisb3927]

Thank Aaron. Great tutorial, as always!!!

[@Back2TheBike]

Very useful. I'm just about to create a load of munitions for a WW2 RAF base and need to paint the labels, so a timely teach in. Thanks from the UK.

[@NiceTower]

It was useful, Thanks you 🙌🏻

[@johnjlopez]

There is still an open bug of SKP not bending textures properly across edges that showed itself in the 23 version of SKP but worked in older versions. Colin on the forums has created a bug report and said its been resolved internally but not made its way to the public version.

[@danimordecai7611]

Very cool. Great for interior design ☺️

[@64littlejoe]

Thanks. The painted-on technique yields a "shine" to the ball, without resorting to rendering. I realize the reflection will rotate with the sphere, in this example, but it's a good "cheat". I'm curious which method yields a lighter model, in general.

[@stevefirst9521]

Thanks for this one. A topic I would like explored would be intersect with model. I have used this quite a bit but it seems like some items didn't quite intersect correctly and sometimes it worked better to scale the objects, do the intersection, and then scale back to original size. Any topics regarding those items would be great. Thanks

[@SketchUp]

Ask and thou shall receive: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZ-opKCbh7SqjKc&ab_channel=SketchUp

[@allanjgray1]

thanks for this one !

[@trapatron]

Thank you for this. I have a question: Is there a way to put timestamps with year-hour-min on Layout outputs? It should be very helpful when updating drawings for customers.

[@DanCarman]

Watching this video... can you guys make a graphic tee using this process? Similar to the one Aaron is wearing? And move that graphic around the shirt?

[@akarumey2046]

Thanks for the video! How did you open pencil toolbar? Or it's just Mac option?

[@SketchUp]

Just a Mac option...the color palette is driven by the Mac OS rather than SketchUp.

[@Abs-jq5km]

Why is sketchUp no longer available for android? 😢😢I want to use it in a Samsung tablet....

[@ClarkeLSmith]

Awesome!

[@RussThames]

Really liked this tutorial. I was hoping to hear some Tears For Spheres playing in the background.

[@johnjlopez]

"Nailed it"

[@MrNoWool]

A terrestrial globe! 🌏 would be awesome…. Have put this request in comments before, do the native tools not do this easily?.. cheers, great videos!

[@marcellopaniccia3d741]

Just stay away from native tools for texturing and use proper tools. kzbin.info/www/bejne/omO0m3-iiraJqLs

[@1369legend]

why sketchup is not making dedicated tools for spheres and cubes and... ???

[@florinapostoiu]

You already have many dedicated tools for multiple 2D and 3D shapes.!

[@lisaliberatore3393]

I followed all your steps but my image won't project or wrap around the entire sphere. It leaves a blank space.

[@SketchUp]

You may need to scale the texture up before projecting. If you still have issues after trying that, you should post on our forum (forums.sketchup.com), where you can provide more information and get a more detailed solution.