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Setting shadows and fog - Sketchup Pro Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp 2020 Essential Training
Setting shadows and fog
- [Instructor] Using shadows and fog in your 3D model can really enhance how the model is viewed. Before we apply the settings, I'd like to note using shadows and fog can really slow down your model considerably, so only use these settings for presentation. Only alter the geometry and work on your model with the shadows and the fog turned off for faster modeling. So that being said, to turn on the shadows and fog you can go to your shadows and fog window, under window, shadows, and window, fog. Windows users, you'll find these settings in your default tray on the right. Mac users, feel free to click and drag these windows to stack them. First, let's look at the shadow settings. First, to turn on the shadows, you can click on this icon here to turn your shadows on and make some adjustments below. To adjust the time of day you can click and drag on the slider here and adjust the day of the year below that. There are…
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