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Sypher_5 · Post by **Sypher_5** » 03 May 2006 22:42

Now that there's a free version of Sketchup released by Google I was wondering what the Camera ISO angles are for TT. I'm investigating what camera controls in Sketchup are available to see how compatible it would be.

Thanks for any help.

CharlieMTA · Post by **CharlieMTA** » 04 May 2006 01:55

download this Ruby script:
http://amazone.crai.archi.fr/Ruby/EM%5C ... ameters.rb

Set the model units to metric
Go to Camera->Toggle OFF perspective, this is important
Go to Camera->Target (an option added by the script) and set the position values as follows
20, -20, 16.3
The target should be the origin at 0,0,0
Focal angle doesn't matter

The produced images, with 3rd party textures are suitable for OTTD, or if you use color by layer /materials set to the TTD palette you can do TTDP buildings with some resizing, pallette adjustment (photoshop works best to avoid dithering problems), and some recoloring to recover any lost details.

eis_os · Post by **eis_os** » 04 May 2006 08:50

If blender would be under it I would really love it

Hyronymus · Post by **Hyronymus** » 04 May 2006 10:08

You have to adjust the origin of the light, Oskar. The perspective seems rather fair tbh.

eis_os · Post by **eis_os** » 04 May 2006 10:34

Atleast the google version doesn't allow* you to change the sun, you can change the day time, but that doesn't help much... it still wrong...

* or atleast I can't find it...

CharlieMTA · Post by **CharlieMTA** » 04 May 2006 16:30

Location and setting the position of the sun is under the window->model info->location tab. Tick on show in model and select will allow you to set the angle of the sun direction wise while the geographic location will set the sun's height in the sky.

AndersI · Post by **AndersI** » 04 May 2006 16:40

You must activate shadows to be able to adjust the light direction.

eis_os · Post by **eis_os** » 04 May 2006 18:24

Well, I would if I could: (PS: Consindering the groups it seems to only work in the pro version, look here)

Or in other words, like exporting they want you to buy the pro version... any other software compareing like this?

Ramshill · Post by **Ramshill** » 04 May 2006 19:23

Try Looking Here

http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/ ... swer=38985

AndersI · Post by **AndersI** » 04 May 2006 19:27

Activate all toolbars, klick the shadow box (circled red i picture below), adjust month and time to match your preferred light direction.

eis_os · Post by **eis_os** » 04 May 2006 19:46

Sure sure, you rotated the camera, I guess I will rotate the model and the camera:

-20
20
16.5

That way it should be possible to adjust the camera with the tool you showed to fit to TTDs setup.

AndersI · Post by **AndersI** » 04 May 2006 19:51

Yes, you have to turn the model around because the TTD lighting model is for the southern hemisphere (or the TTD map has south upwards).

CharlieMTA · Post by **CharlieMTA** » 04 May 2006 19:59

Almost forgot go into view->rendering and shut off profile edges

Then it is a personal preference for the appearence but also tick off display edges OR go into window->display settings and change edge color from All Same to By Material

Otherwise your image will have thick black lines around the corners and details when you shrink the exported images to fit TTD scale and go into indexed color.

eis_os · Post by **eis_os** » 05 May 2006 20:44

Output:

CharlieMTA · Post by **CharlieMTA** » 06 May 2006 02:43

Providence and Boston station in the US development thread shows off some sketchup work if anyone is interested.

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