How to display a "Postit" comment in skp drawings
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Hi all,
I would like to display a "postit" comment in my skp drawings like the example below.
Can anyone tell me how to do that please, I've tried to do it for hours to no avail.
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Make a new Style.
Add the image-with-its-text as a 'Watermark' [png/jpg etc?].
Set its position, size, overlay etc as needed.
Set everything else about the Style as desired...
Use that Style in the related Scene tab...
Have different Styles for different screen-notes/images... -
Thank you TIG. I can now access the original PNGs. I would never have found the "watermark" trick!
So bad the text is in a bitmap and is no more modifiable (except if you have the original bitmap file).
Is there a way to add onto the "post-it" texts by SU instead of by an external image editor ? -
The only way to do this in SU would be to place unextruded 3D text onto a flat vertical plane. However the sheer number of edges needed to create that number of characters in such a length piece of text would make for a very heavy file and lead to navigability problems...especially if you intended to have a number of such notes in different scenes.
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Would something like this work?
Text is screen text inserted in SketchUp. Actually the Postit note paper was made in SketchUp, too. This was done using the image of the note as a watermark as TIG suggested. The downside to this is that to make the screen text display on the "note", the watermark has to be set as a background image. If the model covers that part of the screen, it'll mask the note. If the watermark was a foreground image, it would cover the screen text.
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