Panoramic backgrounds for SketchUp models

[DanRathbun]

And sage Jim Hamilton has even written little plugins, just for this:

@jimhami42

At the risk of re-inventing the wheel, I came up with a simple plugin that allows you to wrap any supported image type around a cylinder. For example, using this copyrighted image from the web to make a beer can:

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https://forums.sketchup.com/uploads/short-url/sFdlGrWrRgvhSXBlDWZudRCtgaS.mp4

The plugin is here if you want to play with it:

https://sites.google.com/site/spirixcode/code/spirix_textured_cylinder.rbz

@jimhami42

I created a panorama on the inside of a cylinder and set the opacity of the outside to 0%:

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I then added a 360 animation and captured the central portion of it here:

panorama.skp (1.2 MB)