I’m using SketchUp Pro 2025 on Windows 11, with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU. I’m working on a planting plan and ran into an issue I just can’t solve.
In SketchUp:
– I use a Shaded with Textures style
– My plant symbols are correctly colored (materials applied to faces, not just groups)
– I have a saved scene with Top View + Parallel Projection
– Transparency is ON, Profiles OFF
But when I insert the model into LayOut:
– Even with Raster rendering, the plant symbols show up only in black & white
– Meanwhile, textures like paving or grass do appear in color
I’ve tried:
– New LayOut files
– New scenes
– Rebuilding symbols from scratch with help of AI but did not work
Nothing worked.
Any help is massively appreciated — I’m really stuck.
Can you share the LO file so we can see what you have set up? That would also allow us to determine if it is somehow hardware related or if there’s a change you can make to get the colors displayed.
If you can’t share the file publicly, send it to me in a DM. Presumably your file will be larger than the 16 Mb limit for the forum so upload the file to DropBox or another file sharing service and share the link.
Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. I don’t belive it but I have tried it all day and now it has just gone through. All I had to do was to change the scale. Silly me, I have not even tried it (but tired 20 other things). Sorry to bother you, you were really my last try but only contacting you helped already
Sure But there is some magic in it and I really would like to know the reason. It drives me mad. Look at the print sreens please.The only difference that on the second one I have slightly move the blue frame on the left handside. After that I cannot even undo it, more precisly I can, but the symbols remain colourless. But I have changed scale and changed back again, and the symbols have their colour again. But why?
I selected all of the ground since it was easier to do than selecting all of the plant symbols and I moved the selection straight down a little bit to create some space.
Thank you Dave. Well, this is how we learn it in garden desing- to place the components on Face. But I will keep your suggestion in mind and I will try it. Thanks again.
If you give the symbol components some thickness you could do that without any problems. I think the simples thing is to go ahead and place the symbols on the ground surface and once everything is in place, move the terrain down a bit. That vertical displacement won’t hurt anything in your plan views.
I agree with Dave that moving the terrain down is a simple option, but it can be worth setting up your symbols as Glue to/Cutting components. This allows you to place them on a face without z-fighting. (note they need to be on the face, not on a closed group/component) Another benefit is the ability to move the ‘Terrain/Faces’ around and the symbols will follow.
So you can set up a series of plantings and easily move whole flower beds without having to select all the individual plants.
A very simple cutting component showing the z-fighting and how it disappears when used on a face.
But there is some magic in it and I really would like to know the reason. It drives me mad. Look at the print sreens please.The only difference that on the second one I have slightly move the blue frame on the left handside. After that I cannot even undo it, more precisly I can, but the symbols remain colourless. But I have changed scale and changed back again, and the symbols have their colour again. But why?
