Hi All -
I'm working to build some bike park terrain models, and the easy part was building jumps and other stunts.
I'm having a difficult time learning how to build a trail or road on a textured surface. I've built my terrain and have drawn a basic line where I'd like to have the trail lie.

Any suggestions on how to do this properly? Should I draw the trail, then model the terrain around it? Other thoughts?

Does anyone have a solution for the problem which Pilou posted earlier? I have a 15" HP Laptop running windows 7, with Google Sketchup 8 -

I'm a Landscape Architecture student, so spraying trees rather than placing them individually would be an absolute godsend. But if I can't get to the bottom of the screen, I can't do much. I've tried using the 'tab' key to get to the 'spray' icon, but it doesn't seem to work (though tabbing over to the 'close' icon does. Arg.

768 pixels is the maximum height on my monitor.