Getting to know my sketch engine

[Jefferson]

This weekend lead to some extended time with my sketch rendering engine and some new (to me anyway) revelations that I felt were worth sharing.

1] The settings of the sketch rendering are significantly influenced by the size & background field in the photorenderings dialoge box. I had been having unusual results from time to time and was unaware why.

By checking the size to 3D window and keep proportions of 3D window, even if you later change the size of the rendering output your "sketched" perspective lines stay appropriate, or rather in perspective. Without making these adjustments some rather undesirable and unusable results ensue. (see attachments)

2] Having my client ask for some higher resolution (read larger) format renderings the same settings for the lower resolution sketch renderings seemed, well light. I then began playing around with the line weights across all fields of the sketch rendering options and achieved the results I was after.

Simply put, if you are intending to output large format sketched renderings increasing the line weights to suit your tastes will yield similar looking results to the lower resolution or smaller output renderings.

Not rocket science but if I had had someone "splain it to me Lucy" as I am doing here my Saturday would've belonged more to me.

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

This is quite an old post but might relate to an issue or 2 Im having at the moment when using the sketch engine:

1. Firstly when I carry out a photorender using the sketch engine in V14 the sketch render looks fine, however when I save the file as a jpeg the image is entirely black. When I use the the same file in V13 the saved jpeg is all good.

2. Also I had a query in a training session from a student that wanted to know if they could quickly preview their sketch render setting without photorendering. Im pertty sure its not possible in the sketch render settings dialogue but wondered whether it was worth a wish?