Some LO Scrapbook anyone?

Gaieus

I have (from here I think) a couple of plants from top. As I am not an architect, I do not make use of them so decided to create a LayOut Scrapbook of them to share.

Note that a LO document is actually a zip file so if you rename the extension, you can access the png files inside and use them as you wish.

Also, they are pretty big but especially for this above reason I did not want to resize them - if they are not really "scrapbook weight", edit them the same way as above and resave.

The default place for scrapbooks (on myXP) is here but you need not really fiddle with the Application folder (by default a system folder and as such, hidden):
C:\Documents and SettingsCsaba\Application Data\Google\Google SketchUp 7\LayOut\Scrapbooks

Download link:
http://www.box.net/shared/hyk9lqqhgl

olishea

legend! thanks for sharing mate. will definitely come in useful!

Gaieus

I have some treelines, too...

olishea

Put them in tree lines thread if you like? i don't mind hijacking

Edson

@gaieus said:

Note that a LO document is actually a zip file so if you rename the extension, you can access the png files inside and use them as you wish.

csaba,
rename them to what? of course, I can open the layout file but have no clue as to how make the images available for use in another app. help!

Gaieus

@olishea said:

Put them in tree lines thread if you like? i don't mind hijacking

I may. ATM they are rather high res. now (some 4000-8000 pixels wide and such). Did you downsample them before creating the treelines (and if so, how big) or are they in the original size?

@edson said:

csaba, rename them to what?

Rename the *.layoutextension to *.zip.

The same with kmz and skm files - they are both simply zip archives just with a different extension.

olishea

The tree lines are original size between 3000 and 8000 pixels wide from cgtextures.com. They were originally jpegs which I edited and converted to PNGs. Average file size is around 10-13mb. I have no idea how they render so well, normally large images crash SU/render apps.

Csaba, for the plan view plants, can you not just save them as PNGs?if ppl are having difficulty...

Gaieus

They are png's (with transparent background) I think I got them from the pack that was published here saying "2Gb of textures".