Hey Rheltonarch
Thanks for that! Unfortunately the purpose of the post was to demonstrate that this still isn't quite right.
Agreed, colours don't work. They seem to have the wrong scale applied.
The textures aren't quite right either. If you look at my example where the recessed part is, I used a SketchUp phototexture called "Wood Floor Light"
In TM, when I apply the brick texture to this, yes it's much closer to the correct scale. However look at it closely. It's still too small, and it's wrong on one axis. The closer I look, it seems like it's been squashed on the Z axis to 'intelligently' match the SketchUp texture.
I don't understand this behaviour at all, since pre-datasmith, the old importer worked just fine whether it was textures or just blocks of colour.
When I'm doing a model in SU, I'd rather just use a series of colours, rather than a load of SU materials. Although I've been using your method up until now, it's not bulletproof :(
Thanks for taking your time to reply though, I really appreciate your input.