I too am working on a similar project for a local spray park and am having a very difficult time finding models of kids for the scene. JSmith, could you please link to the models you had mentioned in your above post?

Thanks,
Jason

Wow - you guys are awesome on here! Thank you so much for your help. That is indeed the particular tree I was looking for.

Cheers,
Jason

I was looking at a demo slideshow for Layout and saw these great looking sketchy trees for Sketchup. They are shown on the "Stephen E. Tise Jr. Tise Design Associates Norwalk CT Proposed mixed income redevelopment" slide found here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/gallery.sketchup/LayOut#slideshow/5367308481253127490

I guess what I am really trying to track down are some simplified tree models for massing studies which don't compete with the architecture yet still look good. I also really dig the 2d plan trees shown on the "Churchill Crossing proposed project for Duxbury MA Stephen E. Tise Jr. Tise Design Associates" slide.

Anyone know of any other similar simplified trees geometry that they could recommend?

Many thanks - any info is much appreciated.

Jason

Hi All,

Just putting the wraps on my first Sketch-up project and ran into a hitch at the ten yard line. I have a really nice looking custom graphic pen style that works beautifully with my hand drawn site plan, and it everything looks great in my Sketchup viewports. However, when I go to render my animation out, not only does my nice pen style change, becoming a mess of dark pen lines, but also my high resolution site plan sketch which I have inserted as an image also becomes very pixelated. I tried downloading the "Smooth Animation" plugin which let me export my animation as a series of stills, yet even the exported .png files look nothing like what I have in my viewport. Any ideas? I have even tried exporting uncompressed to the same resolution of my monitor with no luck. As always, any help would be much appreciated.

On a side note, even though I have had a frustrating evening trying to get the animation sorted out, I can't stop grinning like an idiot looking at my saved still images.

Thanks for the tips, all. I am just going to use Premier to do some post for this project, but this would be a neat feature to have in future versions!

Cheers,
Jason

Hi all,

New to Sketchup and am absolutely loving the program so far. I have been a Max user for the past 10 years, and I can't remember there being a program for a long time that has made me go "wow" so much as Sketchup has over the past couple of days. I am working on a phasing presentation right now for an architectural project and was wondering if there is a way to smoothly fade in objects instead of having them "pop in" like they do by just hiding and unhiding them in the scene states. Also, I was wondering if there is any way or a possible plugin that allows you to animate the transparency of bitmaps in your scene. I have a large topographical map that I am using as a background image that I would like to start the animation out with, and gradually fade out as my camera moves closer to my model of the future building site. Are either of these things possible to do?

Thanks in advace, any help is much appreciated.

J