I’m trying to model a building facade based on a photo. The photo may have been manipulated to display the building in a traditional architecture two point perspective. The problem I’m having in SketchUp is the default perspective when photo matching is a three point perspective.
Is there a way to enable two point perspective with the Match Photo feature ? If so, how ?
I’ve tried setting the perspective to two points prior to importing the image, but after the import, the perspective is set automatically to the three point one and the option to change that is disabled.
How can I match my photo closely if the reference image is a two point perspective ?
My workflow when I need to match 2 point perspectives photo with the Match Photo tool is:
get the closest as possible to the photo with the genuine Match Photo tool. The most important are to get the two vanishing points correctly placed.
Sketchup doesn’t allow to convert a photomatch scene to a 2 point perspective as its POV is linked to the photo that’s used as basis. Sometimes simply using /Camera/Perspective and then /Camera/Two-Point-Perspective allows to accidentally get rid of the photo and go into two-point-perspective and then adjust the vertical position but it’s a lottery.
Use Zero Tilt Camera (by Odowhacker) script (once installed go to /Camera/ Camera / ZeroTilt) and then force-convert to two-point perspective first (/Camera/Two-Point-Perspective) to be able to lower the POV without changing the perspective again.
4.If previous solution doesn’t work, use a script to export the camera and then reimport it. (TIG, Careca, SuforYou, Eneroth released extensions for that). Simply export the photomatched camera and reimport it. This will get rid of the photo and you’ll be able to /Camera/Two Point Perspective. Then, adjust the POV.