Style Stroke Width (Sketchy Edges)

Box

Just so you know, you aren't the only one who gets this.
I have the same result on my newest and most powerful PC, while my older one doesn't do it.
Turning off max texture does fix it but that also makes the tool buttons less responsive.
I would dearly love to work out what causes these odd issues.

Dave R

Too much power?

I had that sort of thing happen with a style I made with the first version of Style Builder but I put it down to the way I made the style and that I found a way to cheat to make a shorter line segment than is normally allowed. I've not seen it with other styles, though.

Box

I'm not sure if you are joking about too much power....?

On mine it happens with any line style.

With Max.JPG

No max.JPG

Dave R

Yeah, I was joking about too much power.

It's a very weird thing. I wish there was some way to easily identify where this is coming from.

If you export a PNG or JPG does it look the same as on screen? What about if you increase the export size?

Maximum Texture Off

Maximum Texture On

Charlie__V

@box said:

On mine it happens with any line style.

Box,
I assume you mean with any Sketchy Style (image based linestyles)?
Edit:wait #1....I think I see what you mean in your second image...small but there

I do not have any problems with the regular linestyles (vector based).
Edit:wait #2....now I have to double check this...ckd & no problems with vector based styles.

Wondering if this may in fact be a bug in SU 2013?
Seems to me if it were a hardware/graphic card driver issue it would exhibit same in SU V8?

Charlie

Box

Sorry Charlie, just to clarify, the my two images above are the same style, top with max texture on and bottom with it off.

Dave the export is the same blurry fat style.

It appears to be related to hardware acceleration as well, if I turn that off the style works with max texture on but things become slow.

Charlie__V

@dave r said:

If you export a PNG or JPG does it look the same as on screen? What about if you increase the export size?

Export is same for view size and of course "finer" for HQ export.

View Size Export

Export HQ

Dave R

I wonder how I got so lucky.

Hardware acceleration on

Charlie__V

@box said:

Sorry Charlie, just to clarify, the my two images above are the same style, top with max texture on and bottom with it off.

10-4 Understood......I get the same. (w/raster based linestyles only)

@box said:

It appears to be related to hardware acceleration as well, if I turn that off the style works with max texture on but things become slow.

I not well informed on the nuts & bolts of Open GL & Hardware Acceleration....but pretty sure this breaks any linkage to the Graphics Card and relys solely on "software" to process things. (hence the slowdown)
IOW.....yes it does relate.........but I wonder if you can really have max texture capability without the Hardware Acceleration on. (sounds good anyway)

Charlie

Box

Do you have an Nvidia graphics cards?

Charlie__V

@dave r said:

I wonder how I got so lucky.

[attachment=0:3mght2s6]hardware accel.png[/attachment:3mght2s6]

Dave,
Beats me..........In your Open GL options......why not use the first option (40 True Color Medium 4x)?

Charlie

Charlie__V

@box said:

Do you have an Nvidia graphics cards?

Nvidia Quadro600 (1GB).......2 year old machine.

But again.....why only in SU 2013 and not SU V8?

Charlie

Dave R

@unknownuser said:

@dave r said:

I wonder how I got so lucky.

[attachment=0:cbl0qscz]hardware accel.png[/attachment:cbl0qscz]

Dave,
....why not use the first option (40 True Color Medium 4x)?

Charlie

No special reason. It's the setting that was automatically selected when I installed SU and it didn't cause me any trouble so I left it alone.

Box

It's all very odd.
I now have it set, Use hardware acceleration on and the other two off, and that seems to work best for me.
Sketchy styles work, speed is good and I don't have the strange sloppy tool buttons.
I'm sure it will be different tomorrow.

Bugga, just realised I forgot which way I was holding my mouth....

Charlie__V

I did not draw attention to it in my original post, but look at the editor "stroke" preview pane.

Stroke Preview Pane

Box

Yep, I saw that and mine was the same.

Charlie__V

@box said:

Yep, I saw that and mine was the same.

Box,
Now that you have your settings just right.........can you turn the max tex back on and "send to layout"............on my machine it will display properly in Layout while having the thick strokes in SU.

Edit:.....Scratch that.......I see you are on Free Make.

Best,
Charlie

Box

If I turn max tex back on it goes thick in SU, I don't have layout on this machine to test, I don't use it, I have Pro for SU7 on another machine if I ever need it, but have not bothered to upgrade as I haven't found my needs stretch beyond the free version these days.

Dave R

I noticed that, too. That seems to reflect the way the style displays but I wonder why it is like that. The line width is supposed to be 16 pixels (Well, the width of the boxes for the strokes is 16 pixels.) If you open the style in Style Builder, does it display like it should or as those wide strokes?

style build.png

Charlie__V

@dave r said:

If you open the style in Style Builder, does it display like it should or as those wide strokes?

I checked out a few of the styles in Style Builder earlier today......and they display as they should in the preview window.

But just now when I opened Style Builder (no Style Selected/loaded)it appears eerily like what the SU displays with Max Texture Selected.

Hmmm....wonder if SU relys on Style Builder in the background to display the sketchy styles?
EDIT: Or maybe selecting Max Tex somehow breaks the interpretation of the line width?

Style Builder: No Style

Style Builder: Brown Style

Style Builder: Brown Style (2013 Model)