Making a mesh with different colored edges.

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I’m basically trying to make a simple space ship that I intend to look kind of like its made up of dark green glass panels and with light green edges, it would kind of look like something out of Tron I guess. Right now I’m trying to apply a dark green .5 alpha material to it and a light green wire material, but when I apply the second material the render just renders an empty frame, no ship to be seen.

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Hi there and welcome to the Forums

I came up with this just using the edge settings in render layers; could refine it with a bit of glow maybe? EDIT; just added image with some organic glow too.

Possibly not as flexible as a material but an hour of messing with mat nodes and i’m stumped as to how to do it otherwise.

In the Render Panels [F10] - make sure Edge is selected then play around with the edge settings; for these the intensity was around 130-180.

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Your help is appreciated but there are two things.

  1. You might need to talk to me like a child, be a little more specific that is. I think I followed your instructions but it seems like the edge color is only about the edge of the object in the render. For example a pyramid viewed from the top would show green lines around the base but not on any of the edges connected to the top of the pyramid.

  2. I guess I’ll have to ask this in a Ogre forum but I’ll raise the question here if anyone knows. The ultimate goal is to export an Ogre mesh, would these render settings do anything in Ogre?

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one way would be to copy and scale a little you object then erase all faces
and keep only edges then apply the toon
this will make all edges bright !

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OK, if you’re wanting to export your mesh then edge settings isn’t going to work coz that’s a blender internal render setting; possibly (though am not sure) Toon material may not be supported by ogre either.

Knowing nothing about Ogre it’s probably a question for the Ogre forum to make the material natively in Ogre rather than in Blender. The only way i can think of to do it in Blender would be to UV-unwrap a typical panel [assuming all your panels were the same shape?], paint the edges of the mesh and use that material as a UV texture?

Thta’s a whole other topic and maybe worth coming back to if no joy with the Ogre forums maybe?