If you want to learn to create 3-D models using Google SketchUp, this Missing Manual is the ideal place to start. Filled with step-by-step tutorials, this entertaining, reader-friendly guide will have you creating detailed 3-D objects, including building plans, furniture, landscaping plans - even characters for computer games -- in no time.
'Google SketchUp: The Missing Manual' offers a hands-on tour of the program, with crystal-clear instructions for using every feature and lots of real-world examples to help you pick up the practical skills you need. Learn to use the basic tools, build and animate models, and place your objects in Google Earth.
With this book, you will:
- Start with SketchUp's basics for drawing in 2-D and 3-D
- Create models of buildings, furniture, and everyday objects
- Easily add couloirs, textures, and lifelike shadow effects
- Design models featuring real-world details-houses, cars sculptures, and more
- Develop 3-D models from 2-D photographs or drawings
- Animate your model with an interior walkthrough
- Place your model anywhere in the world using Google Earth
Dress up your model with realistic material shading and shadows, and place it in Google Earth. It's easy to get started. Just download the program from Google.com, and follow the instructions in this book. You'll become a SketchUp master in a jiffy.
