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Overview - A simple silhouette toggle for the 3D View.
Features
- Simple toggle in the 3D view Shading panel (Property Shelf)
- Customizable background color
Let me know what you guys think.
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I think there have been a few addons like this one, offhand I know of this one, however I think the implementation in this addon is a bit better in regards to integration to Blender’s existing UI (We all know we don’t need another tab/panel) and better suited for day to day use when we just need to display the silhouette of our sculpt/model.
This is pretty cool!
Very nice, I like the placement in the panel too
simple beauty, thanks man!
do you mind if we bundle it to our “blender animators toolbox” panel?
Ofcourse not, enjoy!
Seamless!
This goes into a Pie 
Thanks!
this addon is really nice. Im always telling students about the need to read silouette. I think it also has a future in the VP HOPS menu as well. Donated.
Thank you masterxeon1001!
Yes the silhouette is an extremely important aspect for correct presentation, as I believe people tend to recognize the silhouette of an object before processing the details, it was actually the reason why I made this.
However Meta-Androcto pointed out that this could also be used as an valid solution to opengl masking so I am in the process of rewriting the whole thing in bgl, so that it will be possible to tweak this effect 
Edit: That never happened 
Added a background color option to the shading panel when silhouette is active.
Awesome! works very well, let me know if you need other tools as I am really starting to wrap my head around opengl and I can think of many possibilities.
Found another interesting use, wireframe still works with silhouette, so an easy way to produce a bw wireframe, also, great tool for positioning components just right, I was working on a project of mine earlier and was having issue placing a part, wasn’t sure what would look best, I used silhouette to decide where to place it and now I am very happy with the positioning 
I can’t imagine what else you might do, but that is the fun in watching you work, proxe - what comes next is exciting.
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this is very useful, great implementation, thanks!
There is a critical bug when using quick silhuette throught hard ops viewport menu. It gets stuck on silhuette mode and wont get back to normal until you reset factory settings 
http://i.imgur.com/nzfvdBR.gifv
Hard Ops 9
Newest Silhuette addon
Blender 2.78c
win 10, 64bit
Is the silhouette addon activated? as it does store the old viewport settings.
Yep it is, I really wish this problem could be solved since I love both addons.
I can’t reproduce the issue using HOps, I also took a look at the code and it appears that it should work fine, is there any errors reported in the console?