I learned sketchup for mainly so I can easily do backgrounds for the motion comic I am doing since rather than drawing the sets, I can just move the camera to shoot a background for it, I went right at building the flying city and the interior sets. It was stupid of me to take on a big project right away when I knew so little so it was very disorganized and it made my machine run very slow. Now i'm redoing everything from scratch, so far the only thing I've learned that I should make each building a component.

are there any more tips I should know to make it run faster,keep it a small file size and easily manageable with the maximum amount of detail?

does it affect greatly in scale? will a 4 inch square have a big difference when the same square is rescaled to a 100 foot square? I'm really having a lot of scaling issues >.>

thanks in advance!

thanks guys! the info really helped! I always thought Sketchup had a built in feature to do that.

I would really have preferred the layers trick but it really is a lot of work, might as well try out some animation plugins.

again, thanks for the help!

Hello! Could anyone help me on how to do scenes where the composition of the models in each scene are different? The scenes seem to only change camera and does not save the position of the objects, each scene the objects are suppose to be in different places.

thanks in advance!

@gaieus said:

Under Window (menu in SU > Preferences > Workspace, there is a "Reset workspace" button which should (theoretically) bring all dialogs into the view.

tried this already, still didn't work.

is there any other alternative, like a shadow plugin or something? T_T

I've been using sketchup for awhile and it's only been recently I found out it has shadow settings options besides just turn on and off but the window doesn't come up whenever I click on it.

I've tried re-installing, even went as far as reformatting my PC (I needed to anyways) and tried the it's just a resolution problem but the window is out of screen thing but it really is just not there.

I know than when you click a window option there is a check mark on its right side that says the window is open and it is true for all my other windows except shadows, but no matter how many times I've clicked on or restarted the program or PC, it doesn't come out like the other windows.

been googling this for awhile and I haven't seen a solution yet since most of the others problems were resolution related and mine seems to be not the case.