yeah, I don't have SU 2016. think im done with this for now. gotta keep the project moving.
thanks for the help, I appreciate you taking the time. Will try to work it out when I have more time to play with things, as it seems like a usefull tool if I could get it to work.
tried toggling all those boxes, no go... im starting to think its a bug. rather unfortunate, need this by friday...
ok, in entity info for the basemap layer both boxes were checked. my materials window is a bit different, not sure how to navigate that but if its a png should this matter?
Hello,
I am a grad student working on a landscape design project and was hoping to utilize sketchup to generate a 4 season sun/shade analysis for a broadscale landscape design I'm working on.
I have built very simple building models and installed 3d pines on a PDF basemap, all placed on their own respective layers, which are on and visible. I have geolocated the model. However, when I attempt to generate the shadows it seems only the buildings cast shade and more often than not they don't cast it onto the base map, it seems to go through. In some instances, there are no visible shadows until either early dawn or late dusk, often times only showing up underneath the model and base map. This is a flat model, I haven't had time to create the correct topography. I have been messing with all the settings in the shadow dialogue box, and yes, shadows are turned on in the view dropdown tab. I have done some work previously in sketchup pro 2016 and the shadows function always worked seemlessly, so Im a bit confused as to whats changed!?
I am a bit under the gun, need to wrap this up in the next few days and would prefer to use Sketchup rather than hand rendering. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
- Ben