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Re: TCLTC Layouts Rendered in Sketch-up
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.cad
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Mon, 4 Dec 2006 04:57:05 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote:

   I am finding this technique very helpful in planning out our future layouts, and it is a nice way to archive past layout versions, too.

That’s very cool. I can’t wait to see the finished product with the buildings.

I’ve used CAD programs before to study the relationships between buildings on the (MichLTC) layout from various perspectives. Nothing as graphically fancy as what you are doing, just simple featureless massing models of our layout. This was especially helpful in properly incorporating our microfig skyline as a forced perspective element on the layout. (Of course now we don’t do that anymore. We’ve got builders who can build full-size skyscrapers for us) :-)

Spencer



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  Re: TCLTC Layouts Rendered in Sketch-up
 
(...) Your wait is over:-) I (URL) pics> by the same name. Ideally, you'd want nice, perpendicular shots of your buildings from the front and sides to create the best effect-- Ross had to use some pretty bad shots to get these, but I think they (...) (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.cad, FTX)

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  TCLTC Layouts Rendered in Sketch-up
 
I'm not sure how or why, but one day Ross started fiddling around with (URL) SketchUp> and suddenly he's rendering all of the iterations of the TLCTC layout. Apparently you can stretch pics across the 3D blank spaces, and you can get some cool (...) (18 years ago, 4-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.cad, FTX)

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