I have constructed a roman styled tile roof and the tiles are supposed to be glossy and ebony coloured (black). The roof looks dull in my model. Is there a way to highlight them?
SketchUp doesn’t render gloss / reflection / etc.
You can fake it a bit by choosing a material with more highlights to it (which you may have done - you could zoom in to see if that detail helps) otherwise you need to use a rendering plugin for reflection, gloss, etc.
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Another option would be to leverage the facets of the curved surfaces and use several different colors on the tile. I do this once in a while when I don’t want to render a model. For example, I added a lighter gray on this ebony spline.
From a distance it reads as a reflection well enough.
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Ok this looks really cool. I love this idea!
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