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    Make North and all elevations have even light and shadows

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    • pbacotP Offline
      pbacot
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      Has anyone a good method for shading four sides of the building for elevations such that North (in the northern hemisphere) is just light with some shadows? I sometimes add the north arrow and change north for a scene. The problem is having elevations that appear dark or having to adjust shadow light/dark for those scenes. I would like a quick way without having to tweak every time.

      MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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      • srxS Offline
        srx
        last edited by

        Elev45shadows.rb plugin works well.

        www.saurus.rs

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        • pbacotP Offline
          pbacot
          last edited by

          Thanks! I'll try that

          MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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          • srxS Offline
            srx
            last edited by

            Warning!

            "It will realign North in each processed view, but all recent versions of
            SketchUp allow only one North at a time, so you'll need to copy the model's
            SKP for each shadowed view and use the scene-tabs to get proper shadows..."

            www.saurus.rs

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