Style Stroke Width (Sketchy Edges)
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I'm not sure if you are joking about too much power....?
On mine it happens with any line style.
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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?
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@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 thereI 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
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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.
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@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.
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I wonder how I got so lucky.
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@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
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Do you have an Nvidia graphics cards?
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@dave r said:
I wonder how I got so lucky.
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Dave,
Beats me..........In your Open GL options......why not use the first option (40 True Color Medium 4x)?Charlie
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@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
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@unknownuser said:
@dave r said:
I wonder how I got so lucky.
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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.
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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....
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I did not draw attention to it in my original post, but look at the editor "stroke" preview pane.
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Yep, I saw that and mine was the same.
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@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 -
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.
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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?
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@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?
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@unknownuser said:
But just now when I opened Style Builder (no Style Selected/loaded)it appears eerily like what the SU displays with Max Texture Selected.
It looks like that because you have no stokes inserted in the set. In the upper right hand box you can see the empty cells where stokes need to be placed. The model displays those cells as well. You can drag the sample strokes from the left hand pane up to the cells and then you'll see the lines displayed on the model. If you open an existing style or load a style template, the strokes will be inserted into the cells automatically but the sample strokes aren't.
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@dave r said:
It looks like that because you have no stokes inserted in the set. In the upper right hand box you can see the empty cells where stokes need to be placed. The model displays those cells as well. You can drag the sample strokes from the left hand pane up to the cells and then you'll see the lines displayed on the model. If you open an existing style or load a style template, the strokes will be inserted into the cells automatically but the sample strokes aren't.
Dave,
Yes...I fully understand that,what I was pointing out was Style Builder (without any strokes inserted)looks very much like what Sketchup is displaying.(or NOT displaying)IOW....it's almost as if SU is not reading any of the sketchy linestyles of the particular style that is selected.
(while correctly displaying the selected styles colors/background/etc.)Make sense?
Charlie
EDIT:
Wonder if making a new style without any lines inserted would replicate the condition?
I could test that..........but won't know if it breaks with Max Tex. on (on my machine).
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