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Crazy people - great concepts and renderings...

If that helps: a plugin for easily exporting SketchUp images, as shown in the viewport but with free input of height, width, format and compression.
Originally modified for a smooth scene animation to coincide with the Skindigo AnimationExport (Indigo Render Animation).
Here reduced to a SketchUp single image output with input of image parameters.
Transfer the code to an rb file called Single_Image_Export.rb and copy it to the plugin folder of the respective SUp version (tested up to SUp2022).
Restart SketchUp ....

# Formerly Created by Dale Martens AKA 'Whaat' as "Smoothstep Animation"
# Released 6 Oct 2008 As-is and without warranty of any kind.
# Originally modified by faust07 for a smooth scene animation to coincide with the Skindigo AnimationExport (Indigo Render Animation).
# Here reduced to a SketchUp single image export with input of image parameters.
# Modified by faust07 (AT) 2024-03-25

require 'sketchup.rb'

if( not file_loaded?("Single_Image_Export.rb") )
	menu=UI.menu("Plugins")
	menu.add_separator
	menu.add_item("Export Single Image") {(SingleImageExport.new(true))}
end

file_loaded("Single_Image_Export.rb")

class SingleImageExport

def initialize(export)   # export should be true or false

if export			# Inputs
	prompts = ["Width","Height","Format","Compression"]  
	values = ["1920","1080","JPG","1.0"]
	format_choices = "JPG|PNG"
	enums = [nil,nil,format_choices,nil]
	results = UI.inputbox(prompts,values,enums,"Export Options")
	if results
		@width = results[0].to_i
		@height = results[1].to_i
		@format = results[2]
		@comp = results[3].to_f
		if @comp < 0.1 or @comp > 1.0
			UI.messagebox("Compression must be between 0.1 and 1.0")
			@export = false
			return
		end
		def_filename = "SU."+@format.downcase
		path = UI.savepanel "Export Frame","",def_filename
		if path
			@export_path = File.dirname(path)
			@filename = File.basename(path,".*")   # remove the file extension
		end
	end
end

# single image export
@image_path = File.join(@export_path,@filename + ".#{@format.downcase}")
Sketchup.set_status_text("Exporting Frame to #{@image_path}")
Sketchup.active_model.active_view.write_image(@image_path, @width, @height, true, @comp)

end 	# end def initialize(export) 

end # class

Your penultimate picture reminds me of a landscape in my home country.
This is what it could look like there in 50 years...
(Bastion in Saxon Switzerland National Park)
By crazy people I mean the people who drive their cars onto rocks like this...
(Image source: misjatravel.pl)

I'm glad this helps.
I find it a shame that the SkerchUp programmers have not yet considered it necessary to implement a precisely definable image export, even though the basic functions are available in Rubi.
Regarding school: "Hochschule für Architektur- und Bauwesen Weimar" today "Bauhaus Universität" - we punched out punched cards and handed them over to the computer center (short time after Konrad Zuse...)
I learned most of Rubi from AntonS for scripting in MSPhysics and from customizing simple plugins for my own purposes. It's enough for small things...

Very well done