Quote Originally Posted by Tonquani View Post
I would have thought that you could probably learn the basics of sketchup in an hour or so with a simple tutorial and experimenting - although if you can find someone to show you how to do it, it is likely to go an awful lot faster. After all, if it just the perspective that you are looking at getting right, you can just use simple box shapes to get the main lines right. It is simply a matter of setting out a simple square, drawing your streets and building footprints on it, and then "pulling" them up to the desired height. You can then move around it to get the perspective you want, take a screenshot and away you go. If you do decide to use it, don't fall into the trap of putting more and more and more detail into your sketchup model - it's bery easy to waste an awful lot of time that way.
Ah, I have not shared with the Guild my utter and complete ineptitude with anything that includes camera angles. I always get stuck in a corner, so it seems fitting that in SketchUp, I am also that dude who is stuck in a corner at the very start of creating a project! I'm so terrible at it that my wife has completely given up on me when it comes to camera angles. Last night she had a good laugh when she saw me trying to figure out SketchUp and saw that I was once again stuck in a corner. I'll have to check out a YouTube tutorial.