UPDATE: Just announced CHALK STYLE PRO: true one button AO wireframe rendering.
It’s between 10 and 100 times faster than Blenders freestyle renders. And even better you only need to press a single button to see your render in seconds.
And, the coolest part is you can adjust line weights for both wireframe and outlines as well as control the relative darkness of the ambient occlusion pass. And this is AFTER the render has completed!
And new to CHALK STYLE PRO is the ability to relight your render AFTER you’ve created it! Yes, you heard that right– you can actually adjust the lighting in your render after it’s completed!
Twelve bucks at:
Gumroad:
Blender Market:
More about it:
CHALK STYLE FREE
I recently created a free addon to create a wireframe render using 3 passes: AO, wireframe, and outline. I then have a compositing setup with a custom node group where you can tweak them compositing-- though the default settings is pretty good. The exceptionally cool part is it renders ridiculously fast-- as it only uses OpenGL and not EEVEE, Cycles or Freestyle.
Really nice Chip! Thanks for making it a freebie! Too bad I’m to busy with client work to play with so many cool goodies lately… this, Scatter, etc, etc… But I’m sure I’ll love it when I can check it out.
Hi Chipp, does this addon have optix support? I have sketchstyle which gives me a message of no optix support and I must use cpu . It still works pretty well on cpu , but just wondering if it does.
Just a quick question with the pro version do i still need to open a separate instance of blender to compose the renders? and yes I did see the video above but just making sure
@chippwalters is the free version suppose to work with 2.9? I get a error message when pressing “Render CHALK STYLE”. The message dissapears faster then I can screen shot and I don’t know if and where logs are saved or how to get to them if it is saved. Also I don’t think it works as it should, but I’m not sure because it’s all new to me.
Managed with the screen shot this time. Also forgot I actually posted. Will the Pro version be without this problem? Also, I tried “Show extras” and rendering, freezes my computer beyond use.
Thank you! No more error messages and crashes. So far at least. But how do I get the normal Viewpoint Shading? It’s faster to get to Free Style, but I’m not getting any further then I did when trying Free Style directly. Still missing lines in the view. I’m thinking of buying your Pro version if it’s really more simple, more powerful and less annoying then the built in Free Style.
@chippwalters Better results then I have gotten with Free Style so far and faster and pretty smooth compared to the free Chalk Style. But I’m still not happy with what I’m getting. I have realized that I want full control of what shows up as a line or not. I want a inner outline or maybe the word is contour of shapes. But I don’t want every edge to be a line.
