Hey design nation!
In this session you're gonna learn how to model in Sketchup using match photo.
And for this we're going to model Doctor Who's TARDIS.
Okay, so to use match photo you're going to have to import a photo,
so to do that you go to camera, match new photo, and then you search for an image.
I went online to Google and I just typed in TARDIS and I found this image,
so that's what I'm going to use to model from, and you can see that the image is now in my file, so
basically this scene is made when you import a match photo is what you
would use to match, so when you rotate around, when you're not in this scene the
photo is not there, but to model from it you need to have this scene selected so
you just double click that and it'll bring the scene up.
Since I have my match photo in here, I'm good to go. These are perspective lines and what these lines
are doing are re-representing the perspective lines that you're going to model from.
If at any point you happen to like if I hit model it'll turn off the things that are modeled, if you rotate around.
If you were to turn around and then go back to TARDIS, and you're missing your guidelines
the way to get them back is this little gears here they'll turn them back on.
What you do when you are first setting up your perspective is
that you want to see all of your image. It crops to your extents of your image,
So you just want to make sure you can see it, and then you start placing
your perspective lines, so in perspective this is two point. So you want to zoom in
as close you can so I'm using the mouse wheel to zoom in, and you just want to
zoom in as close as you can and get the the perspective lines. This is good
because it's harder this is floating in space, so it's easy to get the
perspective lines. Actually I'm going to move this slightly and you'll see why, in
a little bit why I'm going to do that.
You just want to try to line that up as close as you can because it'll make
modeling a lot easier. I'm just going to continue to do this zooming in to
make sure that I can get the most accurate as I possibly can of this photo
isn't the best photo you can see it's pretty grainy. If you want more accurate
perspectives, then go ahead by all means if you have a photo or something then
use that or if you want to search the web and make sure that the images that
you're getting are only high-res then you can do that too and it'll make
modeling a little bit easier. So now I'm not really sure what's going on here, it
doesn't look like it's entirely flat, so I'm actually gonna pick a different line
and that's no problem you can pick any line you want, as long as it's in a
different perspective, so you just want to make sure that the lines that you're
picking like this is a bottom perspective, I could choose these lines
or anything like that but you want to make sure they're of the two points,
they're going to two different points. I'm gonna select this one up here.
I just zoom in really quick to get as close as I can.
So right now it's pretty good and then I want to move the
origin point to the corner because that'll just make it easy to model from.
So you want to pick a corner, the corner that you're sort of measuring from, and just place that there.
We're almost ready to start modeling there's just a few things that we have to fix still.
So you can see that the scale model is really out of proportion,
so we can fix that if you hover over the blue axis you'll see that you get an up
and down arrow. So if you left click and drag up, that's going to scale her so we
can sort of rough in how tall someone would be next to the TARDIS so I would
say about that tall. That'll just help when we're modeling that we're using
increments that kind of makes sense. And then I also want to clarify two point perspective,
so this actually really clearly illustrates that. So the red
lines are you can see they're angled in opposite directions, so if I was to
continue this line and this line out, they would eventually intersect, and that
is actually at this point here it's their intersection point and the same
thing with the green axis, if I continue these lines out they will eventually
intersect on this point and you can actually take any of these lines on the
green, as long as they're they're parallel, and they will,
I guess, physically parallel but not in perspective parallel. They will, if you
continue them out they'll intersect at this point and that's essentially what
two point perspective is just so that you understand what that means.
The TARDIS is a great example of two point perspective it's easy for us to model
from this because it's floating in space. If you're matching a photo to a building
it's hard to know what, what's parallel what's not, so you have
to be careful, especially at grade because a lot of times the the ground
will slope and you won't have a straight line here, so just be careful and pick
safer lines rather than lines that you're not sure about, so you know if I
wasn't sure about this I might come down and select this button and that might
make me feel a little bit better about the perspective, and it's the same, you know,
it's just choose lines you feel comfortable with and it'll just
help you model better. So now we have our match photo with our perspective all set up,
and we're ready to start modeling. So check out part two where we start to get
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Other than that, happy hacking design nation!
so what I'm doing is I'm gonna
start at the origin I'm going to blue axis, I'm going to this top line, you can see at the bottom,
it has some link. What I like to do when I model using
match photo, is just type in, kind of make sense detonate there make sense