Style Stroke Width (Sketchy Edges)

Dave R

I don't know if anyone has submitted it as a bug. I'm not entirely sure it is a bug. As I said, I haven't seen this in a long time. Certainly never on my current PC or MacBook Pro. I put it down to an issue with the GPU or the graphics driver.

I've created a lot of sketchy styles and it hasn't been a problem.

By the way, what style is that?

maxhouserocks

its called SCRATCH. i dl'd from this site:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/2012/05/styles-collection-2013/
(towards bottom of page)
But the watermarks didnt seem to come witht he style for me for some reason. was initially what i was interested in.

Interesting that you dont have the problem anymore. i have never run into it until now. Maybe i should try updating drivers, etc and report back.

thanks,
bob

Dave R

I thought that looked like one of my line styles.

As for the watermark, I'll check when I get home from work and see what the deal is. If there is a watermark it should show up unless it's disabled in the watermark settings.

Years ago, I had a big problem with it on a style I made for a client's projects. I haven't used that style for more than 5 years now. None of the other sketchy styles have shown that.

It is weird that it just reared its ugly head now for you.

maxhouserocks

hahaha! i didnt put the two together...you are THE David R!

Nothing came in for watermarks at all. there are none attached when i look through the edit settings.

Great work btw. Very cool. I have some cool ones i made years ago with some nice watercolor backgrounds, texture overlays, etc that i should probably share. Is that site the best place to share styles and things like that?

thanks,
bob

maxhouserocks

i cant help but notice that your squirrel seems to frequent the same Haberdashery as ThomThom. Coincidence?

Dave R

Thanks.

It may be that there wasn't a watermark with that style and the image was doctored after export. I'll see if I can find the original file when I get home from work.

Squirrel? That ain't no squirrel! That there's a prairie dog. And it's no coincidence that he shops in the same fine stores as ThomThom.

Dave R

Robert,

I had to hunt to find the style. You're right. There's no watermark. I honestly don't know if I created the image shown for the style or if someone else did. Around the time I made that style I did use watermark images to create textured backgrounds but I don't do that anymore. I prefer the better results I get by combining in an image editor the paper background image with the lines export.

By the way, here's the results I got using the Scratch style with Large Textures enabled. It seems to work fine on my computer.
Screenshot - 7_23_2015 , 4_57_30 PM.png

maxhouserocks

thanks for looking. was just curious. i am creating some standard sketchy styles for the firm and was looking for some interesting watermarks to try.

Duh...silly me. Of course its a Prairie Dog!! It was late in the day yesterday. No offense to your barking buddy in repose.

That is a nice edge effect. Ill see if i can get to the bottom of this issue soon.
thanks,
Bob

Dave R

Good luck with the watermarks. I decided they didn't work so well for me in most cases if I want to give the impression the drawing is on paper or another surface. If the watermark image is a background, the model masks it and if the watermark is in the foreground, it sort of dilutes the lines.

Here's an example in which I used a chalkboard image as a watermark overlay. The lines are masked by the image.

For the next image, I combined a hidden line export with the image of the blackboard in an image editor. I didn't need to do anything fancy so the combination of the two images is very quick.