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Make a tree component

Make a tree component - SketchUp Tutorial

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Make a tree component

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- [Instructor] Hi, I'm George Meestree, and today we're going to make our own trees, we're going to create a tree component that looks something like this and casts a realistic shadow, and it's pretty simple, so let's go ahead and get started. So the first thing I want to do is just start with a blank file, but before we draw anything we want to take a look at the image we're going to use. So I have this here in Photoshop, and it's basically just a picture of a tree, against a neutral background. And so we want to get a rectangle that's somewhat close to this aspect ratio, we don't have to be perfect, but we need to get something that's reasonably close. So I'm going to start with a rectangle, and I'm going to go ahead an draw it up, and out, since the tree is vertical. We're going to make this a vertical rectangle. And now we're going to place this tree onto this object. So we're going to do that by doing File, Import, and then in our exercise folders you should see something called…

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