Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Getting insight of smaller interior space through Google SketchUp

If you are using SketchUp and modeling a small room, it could be very difficult to see inside of the room because the wall & ceiling will get in the way of your vision. There is one solution to remove the ceiling and work in top view, dollhouse-style. Another thing is set up scene from the interior corners and adjust its field of view to super-wide like 900.
Difficult to render the insight view 
Removed ceiling and switching to top view
Corner view gives very wide scene

The both above technique work at certain point. Its like reading a book from a small keyhole. So exploring the SketchUp abilities for small interior to have faces with different materials on each side.
Face separating girl and boy is green and yellow on the each side
Creating a complete transparent material and painting the green side
The dialog box shows the selected face is yellow on the front and see-through on the back

By painting the outside wall with a see through material, one can see in from the outside. Quite simple.
Outside-facing surface with a transparent material
Revolving around the model, render through all the walls and floor

Posted by Nirmal
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