2d photographic poplar tree

beginner

I had a go to see how good the shadow could be.
Attempt attached.

Use with Caution
The shadow could stretch some older computers.

wyatt

John2, I used the freehand tool to create the general outline of the tree and the larger gaps on the interior. It appears that beginner spent a lot more time doing that, or used a different method; perhaps exporting from photoshop/illustrator as described by my friend, John Pacyga, http://sketchupland.posterous.com/tree-component-process and Alan Fraser: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6687&p=42648

john2

@unknownuser said:

John2, I used the freehand tool to create the general outline of the tree and the larger gaps on the interior. It appears that beginner spent a lot more time doing that, or used a different method; perhaps exporting from photoshop/illustrator as described by my friend, John Pacyga, http://sketchupland.posterous.com/tree-component-process and Alan Fraser: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6687&p=42648

a faster way , a lot faster is to import the alpha map of it in illustrator, use the live trace feature to trace the outline. voila, then export to dwg. simple

livetrace tutorial here

wyatt

That method works for Pro users who can import dwg. Free users would have to use one of the other methods. Thanks for the tutorial links.

john2

@unknownuser said:

That method works for Pro users who can import dwg. Free users would have to use one of the other methods. Thanks for the tutorial links.

my pleasure .

pbacot

@unknownuser said:

John,
That's a great looking tree. Thank you. I hope you don't mind, but I modified the component so that the tree would cast an accurate shadow.

[attachment=0:2qy7uf4n]Poplar with shadow.jpg[/attachment:2qy7uf4n]

http://www.sendspace.com/file/uedkmb

Hi this looks great, John. However when I download it is a "EXE" file that my Mac cannot decompress. Can you please post it here as a zip? If you have a minute. thanks

john2

@pbacot said:

@unknownuser said:

John,
That's a great looking tree. Thank you. I hope you don't mind, but I modified the component so that the tree would cast an accurate shadow.

[attachment=0:1ap37z3x]Poplar with shadow.jpg[/attachment:1ap37z3x]

http://www.sendspace.com/file/uedkmb

Hi this looks great, John. However when I download it is a "EXE" file that my Mac cannot decompress. Can you please post it here as a zip? If you have a minute. thanks

this link downloads an skp. how come ur getting exe?

john2

here's the file split up as part 1 and two . open with winrar. cheers!

Poplar with shadow.part1.rar

Poplar with shadow.part2.rar

pbacot

Thanks John. It looks great. I bet I can use this. Regards, Peter

john2

@pbacot said:

Thanks John. It looks great. I bet I can use this. Regards, Peter

you're welcome pal, a lot of stuff this forum has provided me too . i became an advanced user by reading these forums. literally, some people have dug sketchup inside out . . i'm thankful to all the great great people who have provided huuuuge number of useful plugins here.