How do people use SketchUp skies.

Al Hart

We were arguing (discussing) today about whether people use the default color for SketcUp skies, change the color, (or perhaps don't use skies that much at all.

Let me know how you use them.

SchreiberBike

Well, I voted for "I rarely turn skies of for SketchUp", but then I re-read it and wasn't sure. do you mean "I rarely turn skies ON for SketchUp"?

Al Hart

Ooops - sorry - It should have read "Rarely turn skies on for SketchUp"

I have fixed it

tomsdesk

I leave the sky on while modeling for a sense of the horizon...keeps me less..."dizzy"? orbiting around.

Gaieus

When I started to use SU, I irst used v.5 free and there the default was the ground and sky on so I got used to it and keep it turned on.

I know that in the pro version it was different though...

Edson

me too. i leave the sky on. it helps me model thinking what i am doing is real.

Daniel

I leave it on, with the default set at blue, so I don't have to worry about adding a sky later.

Ross Macintosh

Like others have mentioned, I too typically have the sky on for the visual orientation clues it provides.

When I model I frequently take breaks to orbit around the model and just think about it. When I do that I'll often adjust the sky colour as I find colour does affect what I think about it. In the same way I also adjust FOV just to spur "seeing" different thoughts about what I'm doing. I think these techniques relate back to when I used to hand render/design. I used to resist taping down drawings because I used to like to turn them as I worked/thought, finding such changes would help provide me greater insights into what I was doing.

Regards, Ross

Archi Rag

i dont really use the sky as i prefer to export and mess about with in photoshop, and i may be wrong but it seems like it slows SU down, either that or it speeds up when u turn it off... nevertheless its definately a good feature and i have seen it used effectively in a lot of the posts in the gallery

lapx

I use sky too, it keeps me grounded

Phil Rader AIA

I have sky turned on for rendering purposes but I always change the color to a deeper blue the out of the box color is too muted for my taste. But while I am modeling I rarely have the sky turned on. I find it mentally more convenient to think about the model as a physical object that I am holding in my hands much like a real physical model that I am building with my hands. In general that is what I like so much about SU using it is very close to really physically "making" a scale model. So in that regard I would not have a sky at my desk while making a physical scale model I might take my physical scale model outside and photograph it with a sky background to make it look more real but while actually crafting the model real or computer I like to think about it more along the lines of a scale model or object that I intend to create presentation images out of at a later date.

tinanne

I hardly ever have sky turned on. I usually mess with backgrounds/skies in PS or Piranesi.

Frederik

I'm with tinanne... Personally I leave the sky to white (like in SU5) and then I might use a background sky-image, a sky-dome or a style...
In my latest project I used the Instant Watercolour 2 made by Ross Macintosh...