I am in the process of putting together a library of sketchup trees as components. Here is the issue that I am calling out to the SCF for assistance. When I am creating one of these trees from an image, I save the file in photoshop as a .png file. The advantage in doing this is that I can use the background erase tool to erase the background and project only the image that I want.
This is all good so far.
Then I import that .png image into sketchup. This is where I am encountering the issue at hand. That image will look great and the background of the image will be transparent. BUT, when I display the shadows, the shadow is of the bounding box (a big rectangle) around the tree.
So, I am then stuck having to take the time to manually explode that image and then trace around the tree to cut out a tree like shadow.
This process is very time consuming and I know that someone out there has a better solution. So, if you have any input or ideas on the topic I would love to hear about it.

@solo said:

that AD bellowed so loud I think my neighbors are calling the cops.

Well thank you for checking out the site and the words of encouragement as I progress with it! As for the audio ads... it is something that I am testing out on this site to see if it truly is worth having. After your message I have decided to put up a warning to visitors on the homepage.

Ohh by the way, I checked out your site. Your models look great! Did you use v-ray or some other program to get the great night lighting rendering?