Wood textures and orientation, scenes

Dave R

Maybe you can describe the shadow problem? There's an Upload Attachment tab below the line where the Save, Preview and Submit buttons are. You can either upload images or the SKP file.

Glad you got the texture thing sorted out.

wootton

Dave, thanks for the info, here's the model. As you can see, the shadow of the chairback seems to be falling on a nonexistent ground plane.

shellback.skp

wootton

A possibly related problem: try as I might, I can't change the main axis so that the "front" camera view shows the front of the chair.

Dave R

Looks to me as if you've drawn the chair mostly under the ground plane and then moved the axes which didn't move the ground plane. Here are some screen grabs.

Here's what you were seeing.
shellback before.jpg

After resetting the axes. (I moved the chair slightly to gain access to the origin)
shellback axes.jpg

After resetting the axes, moving the chair and rotating it so that if the front view was chosen, it shows the front of the chair.
shellback after.jpg

Saw your next post about getting the front view. You need to move the chair and not the axes. The axes start out in the right place naturally. Moving them doesn't move the ground plane nor change the direction of the standard views.

Dave R

Here's your model after the fix.

Notice the file size reduction. I purged the unused stuff from it. Got rid of a lot of components as well as some other things.

shellback.skp

wootton

Thanks again, Dave. I'm a little baffled about how it happened. I started with the chair back components, at ground level, but then set it aside and built the seat from the axis, starting with the vertical leg, finally moving the assembled chair back into place. Oh well, it's fixed now; thanks again for all your help.

Tom

Dave R

Just out of curiosity, start a new model. Draw a box about 4 feet tall and turn on shadows. Do you get the same result with the shadow?

wootton

No, it works fine. I must have done something along the way, probably while creating the back.

Dave R

Yeah, I guess so. Well, it was easily fixed.

Happy sketching.

wootton

Thanks again to all who responded. To anyone else who wants to learn about layers and scenes in woodworking design, I recommend Joe Zeh's Beginner's SketchUp Tutorial Series http://www.srww.com/google-sketchup.htm and especially his "Rules for 3D Drawing Using SketchUp," found in Part 1. There's also a good description of converting JPG files to textures, and orienting and aligning them to components properly, in Part 8.