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SketchUp Models from Old Prints, part 2

St Martin in the Fields, SketchUp vs Print ComparisonThis is the finished version of the model I mentioned last week. Created in SketchUp and textured from an image of an old print.  Digitalurban blogged this today, which spurred me on to get it finished. :)

The picture shows the completed model in SketchUp compared with the original print.  

Here’s the KMZ file for viewing in Google Earth:

Church of St Martin in the Fields
(3MB)

… and the SketchUp file:

St Martin in the Fields, SKP (2MB)

The KMZ file size is probably larger than ideal for a model of this complexity, but that’s mainly down to my inefficient handling of the source image:   

  • Too much image perspective manipulation in SketchUp, resulting in texture duplication in the Google Earth KMZ.  
  • I could have almost certainly increased JPEG compression without any visible difference in the finished model.

Comments

Pingback from St Martin’s Church, SketchUp Video
Time: June 21, 2007, 2:41 am

[...] have now created and posted a nice video of the church I recently modelled - Thanks!  Creating animations and videos in SketchUp is someting I really must check out [...]

Comment from jason Brown
Time: February 20, 2008, 8:13 pm

Good model. The transparent urn-type shapes loose their transparency when brought into good earth.

Comment from Hussein Sajid
Time: March 19, 2008, 6:22 pm

This one is cool. I even got Google Sketch up But when I finished downloading and i clicked it s’ icon, it doesn’t open. Can you give me a solution for this,please.

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