- [Instructor] Chapter six 04 is similar
to the previous lesson in so much
as we won't have any exercise file to load.
We're just going to load up the software.
So if it's not already loaded just open up layout.
And then under Scrapbooks, just find this one
SketchUp for Architecture Content.
We've already amended some of these things.
Just click on edit and that's going to load up the page.
We'll have a look at addressing some of this stuff as well.
'Cause it's again behaving similar way
to everything else that we can see straight through it.
We might want to add a little bit of color to some of this.
And add a little transparency fill as well.
So what we're going to do is select this one,
for start off.
This looks like a little brush.
Now this doesn't have a scale applied to it
because they're trees and you could just drag
them to whatever sort of shape you wanted.
I'll double-click just to give into the geometry.
And with the circle tool, just click,
kind of at the center,
and it doesn't have to be on the center,
sometimes they look quite nice
when they're slightly offset.
And either drag slightly over or slightly under
or to the edge, depends on your preference.
I'll just go to there for the purposes of this.
And then with this selected,
make sure you select the circle,
then we'll just click on the fill option,
and that's going to put a fill-in.
Then we'll click in the color.
Sometimes you have to click on it twice.
And then we'll just select the green.
It's a big too garish.
So we can come down and maybe tone it down a little bit.
So a dark green or just feel free to move around
these sort of colors.
And we've also got the transparency here as well.
So just click somewhere on the transparency slider
til your happy with what you've got.
That would be okay.
And then you can either send it to the back
or send it below, or before I do that
I'll just get rid of the stroke
'cause that's no longer required.
And because I've got a fill, I can now lose the stroke.
So I can then use the Send Backwards
and just click a number of times until we get
the desired effect.
Sometimes you might want some sticking above,
and sometimes you want some sticking below.
But anyway, that'll do for that.
Okay so there you go.
That's added a bit of color to that.
Now, something else a little bit more wiggly,
maybe like this one.
Sometimes if we click and then double-click,
we might realize that the whole things closed off,
or we might be able to join it.
Okay, sometimes it works.
But, if these lines overlap,
then it does take a little bit of time,
just to try to find the connection.
What you could do, if you really wanted to,
is double-click on this and then we can move this
down to that point.
Okay so that's a node that you can,
when you get right down to these bits
you can join the edges, and then click away
and then with this tool we should be able to join these up.
This can be a quicker method than,
why don't we just join that one to this point.
Bring this one over here somewhere.
Take this one down to that point.
And then select that and join these up.
We're nearly there, I think we have that.
Yeah, so we've closed that off pretty much.
So that means with this closed off,
we can then put a fill in it.
Okay, and then we can choose a different color than before,
so let's come down to a darker.
Still have the transparency.
And for these bits that are in the middle,
if we're lucky we can double click
and they might fill as well
and we can fill those points.
So this is proved to be slightly easier than anticipated.
But that's another way of doing it
and hopefully that will join up as well.
Even if it doesn't join up,
the fill will go from that point to this point.
Okay, so if I click on fill, you can see it joined up there.
That's actually fine.
Okay, so that's another way of doing it.
So now we've got two bits of shrubbery
that now look a little bit more realistic.
So you can carry on using those tools.
Develop your techniques and you can have
beautiful looking landscaping.
I'm going to leave it there for that.
There's probably loads and loads and loads
of other things I could show you
but I think the benefit of learning
these things for yourself and exploring the software
is going to be much better than me talking to you.
So what we'll do for the final chapter
is go through all the pages that we've set up
and we'll add all the annotation and some entourage
to make them look a little bit more production ready.