Auto Materials from Sketchup 2025 Pro

AmbientOcclusion
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Hi,

I’m running AO version 4.0.3, the latest version I think, in Sketchup Pro 2025 25.0.660 64bit, also the latest version.

I’m having a few problems with the new Auto Materials that are supposed to pickup their values from the new Sketchup materials editor.

Firstly, AO is unreliable at noticing even basic changes like colour definitions. Sometimes it works but most of the time I have to save the model and reload it to ensure that AO reads the new values. This really slows down my workflow.

Secondly, AO is not honouring some of the Sketchup materials settings. For instance, I have a material setup with some metalness and a normal texture map. Sketchup’s rendering shows it to be bumpy, as required but in AO the result appears to be mirror smooth.

Here’s the Sketchup material definition:

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Am I doing something wrong?

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Hello Harlequin, to understand exactly what’s going on, we need to actually see the skp file. Can you please provide a simple skp example that reproduce the problem? Please contact directly our customer service: Contact