Creating sketchup styles from scratch

[applemango85]

Hi

I’ve actually been looking into how to do this for years but stupidly never asked and have never found a tutorial in books or online (or at least never took it in)

Do anyone know how to make an original sketchup style file from scratch?

I know that you can you use the style builder for the lines but what about textures, colour scheme, etc....
and how can you save the finish product as a style file that others can download.

Using the following site page as an example
http://www.sketchupartists.org/2014/09/styles-collection-2015/

and focusing on the ‘Light Pencil Overlay with Watercolor Wash’ style you can download - how could you recreate that style and save as a style file from start to finish?
There looks like there is a watercolour paint background overlay and a texture pencil stroke overlay for sketchup content and the colours of the model are muted down/prehaps blurred but I’m not sure and I certainly don’t know the process of how the author managed to create this style

I know that there are many photoshop post production ways to get the ‘artist impression’ effect but it be great to have another method

Thanks in advance

[Rich O Brien]

Use StyleBuilder to export the Template to generate to linework.

You can print the template or use an image editor to add linework to the boxes.

[Rich O Brien]

Another thing you can do is the rename the .style to .zip and poke around to see the stroke styles.

Best way to deconstruct is to load a style into StyleBuilder to see what setting were used where.