Rendering Master Plans
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Hello Community.
Was confronted with a situation days ago: producing a landscape master plan in a couple of days. By then, I had the master plan done in an SU model and thought of enlisting the styles as a way of using what I already have, then photoshop the sketchy image for a quick turn-around time. However, the default sketchy styles were so coarse, i.e., the details got lost in graphic translation. I did notice though, that zooming in produced better images - which meant printing/saving multiple images rather than a single image save at one go.
So, the bottom line: Do you guys have a system/solution for "style render" large area models? Trying to pdf print with A0 sized pages didn't help; they just increased the frame but the sketch remained very sketchy.
Rico
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Rico,
I dont quite get exactly what kind of presentation do you want to acomplish. A perspective
or a Plan view. Rendered or SU natural style. I am just starting a masterplan presentation myself and apart from producing a large masterplan in autocad , I obtained an JPEG image from GOOGLE EARTH of the area in question (actually about 30-40 of them . I will stich them together so that the final resulution would be sufficient for the AO format . Then I plan to model and render all the parts proposed and in PS apply them to the image while erasing
the unwanted parts .
Detailed parts of the plan I intend to present in a slideshow.
This would be a plan view presentation. But if You want a perspective view something schematic like the ones bellow in my opinion would be most appropriate for the masterplan presentation.
These were not done by me but I have them stored as in my opinion a good style of presentations.Mateo
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Hello Mateo.
Nice output!
My intention was to convert my model's site plan image from the basic blackline image to one using the available sketchy pencil style, getting away from the mechanical look towards a more soft, hand-drawn presentation.
I could export to AutoCAD but that's skirting the opportunity to export to a final desired format one time (i.e., image export of a sketchy style, then quick photoshop work as opposed to exporting to AutoCAD, then pdf plotting, then photoshop rendering.(attachment).
Trying a pdf plot AO size didn't work; the raster output of the styles were just plain geared for the monitor resolution which (I assume) the pdf plotter picked up and converted. Got A0 sized, wide blurry lines, plus of course the lack of detail (even with the slide bar way to the right). The solution I could think of right now is do a lot of small parcel image exports (the style rendering produced more detail), then stitching them up in photoshop. I imagine this will take more time, and same resolution image exports unassured.
Am attaching like graphics for your perusal.
What happened? We got by overlapping a colored sketchup plan image overlapped with a 60% transparent hand sketch, photoshopped. We do what we have to do, hehe.
In the end, would be nice to know how this could be solved in the SU way. Yours, and others' expert advice would be nice.
Best.
Rico
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Rico, I think you are right. The sketchy sort of styles in SketchUp work well at screen resolution. At high resolution the styles don't come across the same. One option would be to try going to Layout with the model with the sketchy style applied and then export the PDF from there. I've not tried this with larger paper sizes but it seems to carry better. The other option would be to export PNGs and put those into a PDF. You still can't make high res outputs but the PNGs ought to look alright.
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Thanks for your insight, Dave!
Hmmm. As they say, necessity is the mother of all.... Time to hit the books on Layout. I know I downloaded the manual here, somewhere...
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