topic Re: Open GL camera view placed on layout bad quality in Visualization

Open GL camera view placed on layout bad quality

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:16:48 GMT

Could anybody know why the view of the camera loses significantly its quality when placed on layout. The lines appear rather interrupted and not straight..
For info, the project was created in Archicad 18 or 19 and currently updated to 21. Could it be a cause ?
In previous version there was no such problem..

Re: Open GL camera view placed on layout bad quality

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:37:04 GMT

Re: Open GL camera view placed on layout bad quality

Erwin Edel — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 10:52:52 GMT

Options > Work Environment > Advanced Redraw Options > 2D Drawing Antialasing

Make sure that is turned on.

Re: Open GL camera view placed on layout bad quality

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 23:40:27 GMT

I was getting excited about the new 3D style options in AC21, in particular the "white model with shadows" option, but when saved as a view and placed on a layout the lines are horribly jaggy, even with this 2D anti-aliasing turned on. It does make a slight difference but not much. Disappointing.

Re: Open GL camera view placed on layout bad quality

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:07:55 GMT

Erwin wrote:
Options > Work Environment > Advanced Redraw Options > 2D Drawing Antialasing

Make sure that is turned on.

Perfect! Thank you

Re: Open GL camera view placed on layout bad quality

Steve Jepson — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 02:45:05 GMT

s2art wrote:
I was getting excited about the new 3D style options in AC21, in particular the "white model with shadows" option, but when saved as a view and placed on a layout the lines are horribly jaggy, even with this 2D anti-aliasing turned on. It does make a slight difference but not much. Disappointing.

Me too. I get better images with a screen shot. setting the 3D window to 4048x4048, saving the view, changing the size in Layout does not help either as far as I can tell. That used to help a lot. It is the same bad image for all the Graphic Styles. But the 3D window sure looks great.

Re: Open GL camera view placed on layout bad quality

Erwin Edel — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:47:47 GMT

Have you tried a 3D document with a 'white model' graphic override?

Drop a blue gradient fill behind it to mimic sky.

Not sure what the 'white model' openGL thing does in terms of glass surfaces, as those are tricky to exclude from graphic overrides, at least in 20, which I am still working in (until 21 receives the patch that solves the most annoying bugs).

You will get a vector drawing, so no problems with lines not being sharp.

Re: Open GL camera view placed on layout bad quality

Lingwisyer — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 03:52:26 GMT

I haven't used 3D view windows on layouts before, but have you tried plotting the page to see how it plots? Adobe Indesign by default shows linked documents at a lower resolution. Might Archicad handle the 3D view windows in layouts the same?

Erwin wrote:
Not sure what the 'white model' openGL thing does in terms of glass surfaces, as those are tricky to exclude from graphic overrides, at least in 20, which I am still working in (until 21 receives the patch that solves the most annoying bugs).

You can go into the view styles and allow for transparency while the "white model" style is active.

Ling.