Drawing directly onto layers other than 0 can cause problems with missing elements-SketchUp doesn’t support layers in the same fashion that other programs do. Select your text, and choose a different layer from the layers pulldown menu.īUT be very careful about drawing directly onto Layer1 for example… the better practice here is to always draw directly to Layer0, and then reassign your geometry after the fact. If you want to change layers, then that can happen by moving your text onto a different layer from within the Entity Info panel. Your color by layer idea would have to happen a different way… ALL of the work which shows in his animation should be done on Layer0. ( layer 1 is a glow in the dark material layer 0 is the covering of layer 1 )

Those objects don’t go along for the ride… and if you don’t get back into the position that you originally had, then you get to reposition all of that hidden stuff too.Īnyhow, fire breathing session is over… for now.Ĭan that be used to push the letters into the layer 0 and see layer 1 which is a different colour ? As it sounds like it would work. I think that can cause issues of a different nature.Īnd they will tend to show up when you start rotating your model when parts of it are hidden, or on invisible layers. it just seems to not invoke them in the same fashion.Īnd I’m sorry for making a big deal out of this… but in terms of needing to rotate a big model just to accommodate a smaller piece of text. …mainly not being able to easily… move/position/and orient geometry within SU… and of course making use of SU’s inferencing system while doing so.Īnd all of those come into play with this method as well.

Although I’d still argue that if this is seen as a simpler solution to what has already been mentioned by Gully in the first thread on this topic-then it’s apparent simplicity is also highlighting a weakness in ones modeling skills. So it’s a more involved solution designed to bypass an option that still might need to be used as a finishing touch.īut it does sit well in the camp of being one of many ways to achieve something. It also doesn’t always intersect very well… leaving folks with having to clean that up a second time if it’s a requirement.

The only problem I see with that method is that the Drape tool only projects straight down

3d paint curved text