why are the shadows on my Sketchup model different than on Enscape? I can’t seem to change the shadows on Enscape.
hi and I´m not sure if this is your question 
To ensure that Enscape is synchronized with your light and shadow settings from SkUp, please check whether you have configured this setting in Enscape’s Visual Settings window. Clicking “Clear” in Enscape ensures that SketchUp determines the light and shadow setting.
(Ah yes—and please don’t forget what happens to me so often: Update and save your wanted scene settings in SketchUp!!!)
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ok, apparently, now the sun is behind the building. I saw the time of day control and used and it went away. How to I get that time of day and sun position control? sometimes using the right click/shit works, sometimes it navigates around..
couldn’t figure out how to get that time of day control. I accidentally got it and didn’t know how.
CONTR. + u/I has no effect on location of the sun.
As described above, you have decided that SketchUp should determine the lighting scenario by pressing “clear” in Enscapes visual setting window.
Consequently, you need to adjust your sun in SketchUp so that you achieve your desired lighting and shadows. Once you have done this, you must save these lighting settings in SketchUp by updating your camera scene – and, of course, don’t forget to save.
If your model cannot be properly lit in your set location/time zone, use the ‘Solar-North’ plugin, which allows you to rotate your compass direction per scene as required.
There is therefore no reason why your model should not be properly lit, and Enscape will render everything correctly.
The same applies even if you use SketchUp’s environment lighting settings – Enscape will render these SketchUp lighting setting correctly too. Naturally, in this case as well, you’ll need to rotate your HDRI in SketchUp so that the model will be well-lit, and of course update this setting in a camera scene.
Bear in mind that SketchUp’s default sun as shown in the screenshot below can still be adjusted in greater detail via the time-of-day settings! – Unlike SketchUp’s (newer) environmental lighting settings, which essentially only respond to the HDRI rotation (unless you manually adjust the sun’s position within them)
All in all, it is always very straightforward to set up and save a good lighting setup for each scene…
AS for the sun location, tools are located differently on a pc than on a Mac. And when I did find a way to move the sun location, somehow I managed to use Sketchup to do it. Previously, it had no effect on the Enscape model (sun location) but now it does which is great, but now I don’t know what I did to make this happen. Any clue how I did it and what settings it took to accomplish this?
hmmm - I described it to you quite clearly in my previous post: Update your scene(s) and save! – that’s all There are loads of excellent tutorials on YouTube that explain how to set up SketchUp scenes, including lighting, wonderfully and very clearly explained – and certainly better than I can do here.
Regarding your scene – you’ve already made progress – brilliant!
Here’s another tip: when it comes to natural elements like trees or plants, avoid repeating the exact same appearance – it looks awful and extremely unnatural!
In the screenshot, just like in yours, there’s only one tree, but:
- The row and the distances aren’t perfectly straight but deliberately a bit irregular
- The same tree is always rotated and scaled differently using a randomiser plugin.
This way, you get a much more natural-looking decorative or background scene without any manual effort.
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=clf_scale_rotate_multiple
As for the surroundings you want to remove: I assume you’ve used the ‘Site Context’ option within Enscape? You can call up and enable any site context there, but you can also disable it there again:
Thanks! that worked. Now I tried to use the plugin for the random scale , but my subscription has lapsed I think. Trying to re up.
I thought at one time I saw that Enscape would do that too.
Again, I don’t quite understand what you’re saying.
Yes, of course, both SketchUp and Enscape require a €$-subscription. The plugin mentioned above, however, does not—it’s free.
Right — Enscape can do that to a limited extent and imo not really convenient, but which is probably sufficient enough for many tasks.
I prefer the better random-tool plugins within SketchUp for that.
Don’t forget that all other visual rendering settings must be saved in an Enscape scene preset per scene!!!. While this Enscape preset system does work, it is (again, in my opinion) often a pitfall, and I’m not particularly fond of it. So try it out for yourself and decide what works best for you and your projects…
I tried to get the plugin but could not log in (Im a past member of sketchucation) but when I tried logging in, said my password was invalid. Tried to reset my password and got this message. I got my verification code ,put it in but never got the link to password reset. Kept getting this same message instead.
OK, finally got into Sketchucation. Seems my username was changed and I apparently forgot . My bad .
Now on to the new plugin! Thanks!
:thumbup: …steps that are worth taking—for me, SketchUcation is still the best source for plugins and know-how related to SketchUp
…sorry, I’m not so familiar with the Mac procedure. But I don’t think it works much differently than on Windows—once the RBZ is installed, the tool should show up, right?
Any downloaded RBZ file gets installed using the Extension Manager shown by you above, just like on Windows, and will then be available immediately and should then also appear in your Extension Manager, just like on Windows.
By the way—the tool doesn’t have any icons, but should it be accessible here in the ectensions Menu in the Mac version as well:
… if not - SketchUcation is the perfect place to ask questions, discuss SketchUp or plugin-related topics, and get help for that.
Ok, I finally got it installed. Thanks.