Inserting a SU model
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Hello chaps,
First post for a while - been a mad few months - I've become a father for the first time, am in training for the London Marathon next month and have got a slightly different role at work.
Anyway, apologies if this has been discussed recently but I am just after the best way of getting a scene in SU to line up with a photograph I have taken of a particular site, so that I can work with them both in Photoshop?
Can you point me to any threads or tips? I have searched but think I wasn't using the best keywords as didn't get much back.
Many thanks.
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As long as the photo is un-cropped - since you have Pro... then use the native PhotoMatch toolset in a blank SKP.
Import the Image as a PhotoMatch image [an import dialog option].
Locate the origin/axes at some logical corner.
Scale things sensibly to suit.
Draw a temporary grouped box where you building will be [say a 3m cube ?].
Save the Scene-tab [without the photo] to freeze the camera details.
Import the model you have previously made.
Locate it using the temp box as a guide...
Delete the temp box.
In the scene use a pure white as a background [no ground?] so that any exported image can have a simple transparent background.
Adjust the SKP's geo-location and time/day so the shadows match the photo as closely as possible.
Now if you use the scene-tab to return to the matching camera, then the exported image layer of your building can be overlaid onto the photo-image layer in PhotoShop... and the perspective etc should match...
Do your PhotoShoping as desired - e.g. masking out parts of the building image that ought to be obscured by foreground objects in the photo - perhaps by copying/trimming those parts from the photo onto another layer overlaying the building's layer... -
Thanks ever so much for the response(s) - I will give it a try!
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