Hi - I have some light fixtures that are casting funky shadows on the ceiling (see attached). How do I prevent these fixtures from casting? I am using vray 4.0 on sketchup 2019.

Thanks in advance.

Does anyone have an old sketchup 8 pro installation file laying around?

Thanks,

Donovan

Is there a setting that allows me to automatically save back to an older version of sketchup to avoid compatibility issues - much like autocad?

Thanks in advance.

Donovan

@box said:

Have you edited the transparency within SU, that can make things look wrong. A PNG with a transparent background is different to a transparent PNG.
Also it seems to be caused by looking at the back faces, try flipping them to see if that is the problem.
If you upload the model someone should be able to see what is going on.
I suggest it isn't a Bug!

I have not edited the transparency - I'll try to flip the faces. thanks.

I have created tufts of grass by importing a png that has some transparency and rotating copies radially. When I place them in the model from some angles the plants behind pop to the front visually.

In this image the plans on the left are reading properly but the ones on the right are bad. any thoughts?

@gaieus said:

Yes, though you can zoom out (to a certain extent) to grab bigger pieces,

Weird as I zoom in and out my window for grabbing terrain stays the same size relative to earth. As I zoom out, my square gets smaller.

Thanks though.

@bob james said:

You can bring in as much land as you need by bringing multiple areas and stitching them together.

yeah. This is what I was afraid of. I need quite a big patch of land so stitching all the little squares together will be time prohibitive.

Thanks anyway though!

i am modeling a train proposed train station on a Hawaiian island. Is there a way to upload a 3D topo from GE into sketchup? With SketchUps geo-location tool I can only get a little square.

thanks.

Donovan

@gaieus said:

@donovanweberdesign said:

Is there any way around this without going through and making all the lines in all the other groups black again?

Have a look at the CleanUp Plugin. (Please, carefully read the installing instructions as other plugins are also needed).

First run the plugin. Unless you also applied materials to whole groups/components, all will turn into the default black. Then paint your edges selectively.

Beautiful. Notice the grey lines! Thanks!

@alan fraser said:

You can color any line just as you can a face. Just go to the In Model > Edges tab of the styles dialog and change the style from All the Same to Color by Material in the drop-down at the bottom.
It's pretty difficult actually coloring a line, as it's such a small target. It's usually easier to select it first.

The problem with doing that with this particular model is that I have already applied materials and colors to everything (including lines incidentally) and I don't want all the others lines to turn green in the grass or brown for the wood surfaced. I want all the lines to be black except a few. Is there any way around this without going through and making all the lines in all the other groups black again?