Can you render the "overlays" in Blender 2.8?

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#1

I have a scene in Blender 2.8, Workbench render engine.
I want to render it, but with certain overlay’s showing in the final render. Especially the wireframe overlay (under geometry) and maybe the relationship lines…

I tried openGL rendering, but that didnt work… same with normal rendering (obviously)

So is this possible to do?

#2

Use the View -> Viewport Render options:

viewport-render
viewport-render.png696×879 158 KB

#3

Yes I tried that (the animation one, viewport render animation)…but that didnt work.

It doesnt show the overlays that I enable in the viewport:

rendered
rendered.jpg1854×1044 751 KB
with%20overlay
with overlay.jpg1196×669 391 KB

The top one is the viewport render, and the bottom one is how I see it in my viewport (it has the wireframe overlay enabled).

So its not showing the overlays in the viewport rendering…

#4

That’s odd. I get wireframe and relationship lines here (Win10 + nVidia) - even for the animation option.

If you’re not, it’s probably a bug that can be filed.

test

#5

Huh that is odd indeed… But its good to know that it SHOULD work…

anybody else?

#6

Doing a viewport render gives me exactly what’s shown in the viewport as expected. Both for Viewport Render and Viewport Render Animation.

Build from yesterday - Windows 64 bit. It works as expected with all varieties of Solid Mode (Flat, Studio and Matcap) plus LookDev and Rendered mode. Whatever overlays are turned on render,

#7

Ah maybe there’s the problem… I didnt know there was a new build…

Ill update it and see how it goes… ill keep you guys posted

#8

There’s a new one every day :slight_smile: I only download it once in a while though. When I haven’t done it for a while or a juicy new thing is added.

#9

Cavity shading may affect OpenGL render.
On my machine, it may hide and minimize a little bit wireframes display.
But I did not obtain something as extreme as in your scene.

If it is still as is with a recent build, you may take a look at bugtracker and fill a report if nobody already did.

#10

I just tested it with the new build…and cavity shading turned off

and that didnt work either… so im guessing this might be a bug

Im running it on windows 10 64 bit, AMD threadripper 2950 and GTX 1080Ti btw

#11

Try starting Blender via “blender --factory-startup” and see if it works then. Sometimes during development some stale user prefs may lead to weird effects.

You can also use from inside Blender “File -> Load Factory Settings” (save your work first, it also loads a new scene without asking), but I found it sometimes retains some of my settings, so starting from the command line would be better.

#12

Hi Sanne, thanks for your reply. Ill try your solution and Ill get back to you with the results