Wire material Thickness

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Hi everybody,

I made a object and made his Render pipeline Wire. Is there a way to expand the thickness of the wires?

Thanks in advance.

T. Edoc

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same question here!

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If you want a thick wire, rather than render as wire you could make a real wire mesh object. This will give additional geometry so will extend render time.
With your object selected, use the ‘Solid Wireframe’ script in the Scripts / Mesh window.

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Extensions/Python/Bundled_Scripts

For a thinner mesh you could reduce the alpha value of your material

Richard

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I really don’t find. And the link doesn’t seem to explain how to…

Is it possible to explain me what to do in the Object (F7), or what is the Scripts / Mesh window?

Thanks in advance.

T. Edoc

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See the attached video. This is an extreme thickness for the new mesh object. Reduce the thickness number in the script settings popup to get a more realistic wire thickness.

http://www.blenderwho.com/videos/mesh.mov

You should be able to view this in most video players but should play in VLC if you have problems.

Richard

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When I try to create a Solid Wireframe script, I got this :
“python script error: check console”

I just installed the last python (3.0) and the error occurs again.

Do you still know what I can do?

T. Edoc

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Look in the console and it will tell you the reason for the error.
You need the correct version of python for the version of blender ou are using (shown in the console window). I can tell you now it is not 3.0. Depending on the version of blender you installed it could be 2.5.2/2.5.4 or 2.6.

Richard

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Hey T Edoc!

The thing about the Python is, when you install the correct version (which is 2.6.2 for 2.49a), you also have to redefine the Python Path. I did it recently and now 2.49a and 2.49b recognize that Python is installed.

I found the link I used, so I hope it helps :
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Extensions/Python/Setup

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Hi everybody,

I tried the “solid wireframe” script, but it seems it requires an object to have faces.

I’m trying to render a set of wires. So I created curves that I need, and naturally, they have no faces. I can render my curves as wireframe, but I cannot control the thickness of lines… and “solid wireframe” does not work either.

Is there a way to make my wires thicker?

Thanks a lot!

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Try this:
Delete any existing faces. Select all edges, and use Scripts/Edges to curves.
In the Edit Tab, change the Bevel Depth, to something suitable.
Does it work?

Good luck.

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Thank you so soooo much, Makr!
It did magic to me! I played around with parameters and made it look exactly how I wanted!

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It could be an offtopic, but may I humbly ask for another advice? I see that blender has some sort of script language. Is it possible in it to create a curve, with vertices defined by an equation?

Say, I have array phi of 100 elements with values between -3.14 and 3.14, and I want a curve, that has x=sin(phi), y=phi, z=0? If so, could you point me in maybe there are similar scripts that I can adjust to my needs? Thanks a lot in advance!