Earlier this week I posted a SketchUp video using a sky-dome with my Turning Torso 3D model. This is a video of the same sequence, with all the hidden geometry exposed in SketchUp’s  ‘Monochrome Face Style’.
For comparison I’ve reposted the ‘textured’ video directly beneath. With some rapid mouse work it should be possible to play both at the [...]

Google Earth adds shading to all SketchUp models to make them look more realistic.  For something like my  sky-dome model this is problematical because it means the texture is unevenly lit and too dark.
With some very minor editing of the Google Earth (Collada)model file in a text editor, it’s possible to turn this shading completely off for individual textures.  This was [...]

This is the sky dome 3D model I wrote about yesterday, transferred into Google Earth - I see Frank Taylor at the Google Earth Blog beat me to this :) You can read his article here.
From inside, the model provides a simple way of giving Google Earth a cloudy sky backdrop over a limited area. As shown in the picture.
The dome is 50km in diameter (several times [...]

Keeping with the theme of clouds and textured globes, I though it would be interesting to create an accurately textured skydome model for SketchUp. This uses a ’sky’ panorama painted onto the inside of a large hemisphere - a quick way to fake a 360 degree backdrop for 3D models.
SketchUp Skydome (400kB)
This is a short video produced in SketchUp ,  demonstrating how the Skydome looks in [...]

digitalurban.blogspot.com have now created and posted a nice video of the church I modelled from a drawing- Thanks!  Creating animations and videos in SketchUp is someting I really must check out sometime…

Notice how the SketchUp ‘Style’ switches halfway through.