Remember AC7 Viewpoint GraphiSketch Renderer?
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2008-12-15
11:33 AM
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2023-05-11
12:18 PM
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Noemi Balogh
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It was a marvelous sketch renderer with a real artistic touch! I used it a lot for presentations and front pages of my projects. I would gladly trade the whole AC12's Sketch Renderer for it!
I want it back! Do you?
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2008-12-15 11:41 PM
AC4.55 - AC14 INT (4204) | | OBJECTiVE |
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2008-12-15 11:43 PM
AC4.55 - AC14 INT (4204) | | OBJECTiVE |
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2008-12-16 01:09 AM
kliment wrote:Oh yeah. Now I remember them. A bit too cartoony for my taste, and not the best clean up as I recall. I think that software was by ThinkFish and was bought up or otherwise vanished from the scene.
Do you remember the AC7's Viewpoint GraphiSketch Renderer?
Perhaps you could get close with the sketch renderer and then apply a filter or two in Photoshop. Of course it might be quicker and better to do a sketch render by hand overlay.
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2008-12-16 02:25 AM
Three steps from a 3D Window screenshot:
Desaturate - lose those ugly colors.
Find Edges - outlines
Texturize - puts a canvas texture under the image
Why i recommend this approach:
1: It is a five second process: no rendering at all, since we are shooting the screen.
2: The steps can be varied for personal preference AND SAVED as Photoshop Actions [macros] so you never lose the settings.
Sure, there's an investment of time, but it is way less than messing about with the no-preview sketch settings....
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2008-12-16 09:38 AM
I want an artistic presentation for the front page of a project documentation or a web-site. The hand-drawn approach is the best but it is really time consuming - print, draw scan, manipulate....
Dwight, I am familiar with the Photoshop tricks but they give you exactly a sketch mock-up. No artistic touch, unless I draw it myself.
Rob, this is a fine example of sketch, made by an Architect!
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And, Rob, this is a very nice house! I like it a lot!
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Do not forget - we had this engine inside AC, there was no need for another application!
Below is an aexample, made by a colleague with whom I worked together on a hotel extension. He didn't know Photoshop. I showed him this engine and this is what he did in a few minutes:
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2008-12-18 08:36 PM
![Karl Ottenstein Karl Ottenstein](https://community.graphisoft.com/legacyfs/online/avatars/actalk/a27517d178c246abb0dd17b6f4f6758a_126.jpg)
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2008-12-18 10:35 PM
I agree that restoring that old engine, or perhaps improving the Sketch engine would be very helpful.
I tried to reproduce your style sketch by modifying Sketch engine settings - but the line overshoot made windows and railings a mess of linework. Very ugly.
So, I exported my test model as 3DS and imported it into Google Sketchup (free version). While I was missing some of the control of the Sketch Engine, the Google style options provide what is missing in ArchiCAD: more intelligence when lines are close together (as in window trim and deck railings), a level of detail slider, and more. The result was still not ideal (lots of extra edges are created during the 3ds export) - but it felt more natural than what ArchiCAD achieves.
I think that if GS made Sketch more aware of edge distances from each other in order to scale down the line weight and extension for, e.g., window frames, provided a 'level of detail' slider as in Sketchup (and Artlantis navigator for that matter), and allowed the 'air' setting to be more dramatic, it would be a good step forward.
Or, providing GraphiSketch might be a good step backward.
Cheers,
Karl
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2008-12-19 08:03 PM
Karl wrote:I believe the old engine was licensed and is no longer available. Improvements to the present sketch renderer would be very welcome.
I agree that restoring that old engine, or perhaps improving the Sketch engine would be very helpful.