I figured it out. I just didn't apply "projected texture" properly. I applied the aerial map to a large flat surfce and placed it right above the topo surface. Then I right clicked the flat textured surface and selected Projected. Then I alt-clicked the Paint Bucket onto the flat surface, it becomes an eye dropper, then I apply that to the topo surface and voila.

Hi, I'm running Sketchup Pro 8 WinXP and would like to paste an aerial image onto a topographic surface. I created the contours in Autocad then imported to SU and had no trouble creating the surface witht the Sandbox tool. But when I apply the aerial jpg, it fragments into many "splinters", each oriented differently. I know I've seen it done where an image is mapped to a contoured surface but I don't remember it. I have searched but havn't found the answer yet. I tried Alt-clicking the texture and selecting "projected" but that didn't help. Does anybody know the correct procedure?

Thanks

I have contacted Abe and he directed me to a patch. Apparently a new version of Firefox had some incompatible code. The patch fixed it. So I'm a happy camper once again.

Peter
http://www.plainview3d.com

Now all of a sudden I can't see the layer control at the left or the tab control at the top in another Layer Control skin model I did:

http://www.plainview3d.com/Hypercosm/PrattSt_NewLayer2/PrattSt_NewLayer2.html

This is really strange. It used to work fine. There's nothing that would have changed, as far as I know.

Does anybody else have this problem? Does the above model function okay for anyone? If it comes up as one scene with no tabs or control, that is the problem.

Peter

Thanks for the feedback. It helps to know someone else can't see layers or tabs in the Watermusic model. I'll keep investigating.

Yes, the client said a Time Slider skin did work after she reinstalled the viewer in IE and Firefox. I just need to know if I'm causing the problem by how I'm building the model.

Peter

What do you do when the layer control skin does not display the layer list at the left? Instead of the list there is nothing. My client is not able to see the layer control or tabs at the top for viewports. The model is at:

http://www.plainview3d.com/SunPlans/SunPlans_Hypercosm.htm

Watermusic 3 Layer Control is the problem. After reinstalling the HC viewer in both IE and Firefox, the Time Slider version will now work for her but not the Layer Control. She also emptied her cache of internet files, to no avail. The models work fine for me.

Any tips will be greatly appreciated.

Peter