Wood texture help

Trying to do an interior with lots of different color woods. Using the sketchup defaults are limited and quite frankly the grain doesn't always look great. Have never used the .ar materials, tried it and first of all, the images/colors when selected bear no resemblence to the what is rendered and more importantly, when rendered, it looks "striped" instead of wood grain. I started to do a simple test, first row is some of the default sketchup, 2nd row is 2 of the ar. Must be doing something wrong, appreicate any guidance

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Permalink Reply by Larry Goldberg on February 10, 2012 at 7:05am

thought maybe the picture wasn't clear, here is a closeup

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on February 10, 2012 at 8:01am

The ArMaterial wood categories are both solid woods, meaning that if you carve into one of the blocks, you'll see the same wood grain as if you carved into a piece of solid wood. For the texture image in SketchUp, we just render that testure to a flat square to create the material texture image. Unfortunately it's rendered at an angle of the material that shows the grain straight...so it looks striped in SketchUp. When you render it though, the grain acts more like real wood.

So these materials aren't as useful for displaying in SketchUp as they are for getting wood objects that look like they are carved out of a single piece of wood.

Does that make sense? Or do I need to add a few more pictures?