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Originally Posted by Flying_Canuck
These are quality stuff! Such beautiful creations based on great concepts. The ballparks themselves look really good, and I especially noticed the background, too! How are you capturing those scenary?? It is amazing.
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Thanks! It's actually pretty simple, once you get the hang of it:
1) Find a skyline or panorama shot using Google Images.
2) Using an image editor of choice, erase the "sky" from the image and save the image as a transparent PNG. Because of the way Sketchup tiles textures, it's a good idea to leave a fair amount of "blank" space between the top of the visible portion of the image and the actual border of the image. Look at the "skyline" images in the textures folders to see what I'm talking about.
3) In Sketchup, create a group of the entire ballpark and then draw a "pie" arc, with the point at home plate, arcing around the outside of the ballpark (keep it fairly close to the wall).
4) Use the "push/pull" tool to stretch the "pie" arc so that it's far taller than the park.
5) Delete the non-arced sections of the "pie", so you're left with
just the arc. Then connect the four corners so you wind up with a flat surface. Delete the top of the shape, as you won't need it.
6) Apply the skyline image as a texture to the flat surface, and adjust as needed. Right-click on the placed texture and go to Texture -> Projected. Then select the paint bucket tool and hold ALT while clicking on the texture (this turns the paint bucket into an eye dropper) and select the texture.
7) Paint that texture on the arc and wham! You have a projected texture.
8) You can then delete the flat surface and any unnecessary vertices.
9) Fill the "bottom" of the arc with a texture of your choice to prevent visible gaps between the park and the skyline. Use the move tool to lower the pie a little bit on the blue axis so that the bottom of the pie doesn't overlap the field surface - you may need to lower it more than that so it looks right, but the overlapping is the key thing.
10) Profit!
This video more or less walks you through the projecting procedure, except he uses an s-curved shape instead of a single arc. But the concept is the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHsRRLCAOm8