Background issue

[studioapplebees]

Hi

New to Sketchup so still learning the ropes.

I was clicking around the Styles option and selected ‘Display Photoreal Materials’ option. Once clicked, and I selected OK when it asked if I wanted to active this, it changed my background from the default option to realistic clouds. The problem I have now is that I can’t seem to revert to the old default background.

I’ve tried going into the Styles panel on the right and selecting pretty much everything and nothing seems to allow me to switch back to the default background, or remove what appears to be this loaded cloud imagery.

Something else that happened is the Shadows timing options greyed out once the ‘Display Photoreal Materials’ was selected and I can’t undo this either.

Any help would be appreciated. I guess this is a rather simple fix but I can’t seem to figure out how to go back to my default option.

Thanks in advance.

[DaveR]

@studioapplebees

it changed my background from the default option to realistic clouds. The problem I have now is that I can’t seem to revert to the old default background.

Go into the Environments panel, click on the house icon to show the In Model environment and then the Edit tab. Turn off the option to show the environment.

@studioapplebees

Something else that happened is the Shadows timing options greyed out once the ‘Display Photoreal Materials’ was selected and I can’t undo this either.

That’s because the sun direction is controlled in the Environment panel because it is set to control shadows.

[studioapplebees]

That’s done the trick. Thank you!