Production ruby for watercolor images

tallbridgeguy

Sorry if this has been developed or is a dumb idea....

I have been developing some bridge design concepts and what I would like to do is turn around production images faster. (A series of steps that get a reasonable image in a hurry)

I have been using the sk+kerky+photoshop route but the rendering times are long...

I liked some of the watercolor effects where you output multiple images from SK and then combine them in photoshop. Is there a way to export images using a ruby?

Meaning, open SK file, output current view images to a directory, with (I think this is what you need for the watercolor combine effect)

color and texture
line work no color
line work w/ shadows
kerky xml file (for extra fun)

Then I could do a quick render in kerky and combine them all in photoshop for a reasonable concept sketch.

What do you think? Can you recommend a better way?

thanks!
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remus

Unfortunately i dont think you can access styles through ruby, so it wouldnt be possible to change to lines only, lines + shadows etc.

Would be a wicked plugin, otherwise.

Chris Fullmer

http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/index.html

You can play with those options. And I don't know if Scott updated it already or not, but I made a list of items that are not shown in the Docs, and then some that are in the Docs and are actually called something in Ruby.

I have not really used this though, so I don't know what is or is not possible. But I was thinking that was you are asking for is possible. But I could be waaaay off.

Chris

thomthom

view.write_image http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/view.html#write_image
RenderingOptions for induvidual Style changes http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/renderingoptions.html

You can also set the Page style to one of the predefined styled available.

Sounds possible if I understand the request correct.

remus

My mistake.

tallbridgeguy

Is this something that others would like? I have very limited ruby programing experience but I could look into it.

thanks!
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