Wireframe renders

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Actually, object instancing, which doesn´t have the disadvantage increased file size as mesh duplication does. - as Theeth put.

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So, the workflow would be to: (correct me if I´m wrong)

  1. Select all objects (including lights and camera) of a scene.
  2. Alt D to make instances*. Don´t deselect.
  3. Move instances to layer 2 (or move aside)
  4. Shade the objs of one layer as wireframe and make a small Z translation
  5. Show layers and render
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THis looks, to me, very similar to the image you posted and you wanted to duplicate

http://www.selleri.org/Blender/buffer/bof.jpg

A plain shadeless material with toon edges enabled

and edges between coplanar faces are not rendered…

Stefano

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Well, that seems to me simple and effective, Stefano…

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whats cool though, is being able to examine the lighting in the wire render

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Ohhhhhhhh. That looks like a good option then. Is it possible to make the lines (or toon edges) thinner? I always thought toon edges were too thick.

Thanks all for the help. :slight_smile:

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With 1500 posts… well :wink: , select the camera, then the thing you want it to look at, and press crtl+T. Then select make constant. That’s it. You can move the cam and it will stay pointed at the center of the target object.

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Sure you can make edge thinner. I pumped them to the maximum (eint=255) but you can play with that!

Stefano

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Hi S68. Are you sure the edge intensity is the right setting for line thickness.
If you look at step 4 of this toon shading tutorial you can see that it says…

“The higher you set the Eint: value the more edges will be outlined.”

I thought this was so, which was why I checked it. It must be something else that changes line thickness because I don’t think it’s the “Eint” slider.

Thanks again for taking the time to reply. :slight_smile:

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One quick hack to make lines thinner is to render the picture with a higher resolution then sacle the file down.

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Thanks arangel. The toon edges work good for shapes like in the example S68 posted, but on an organic model, (i.e. a head) the lines fade towards the center. A UV sphere is a good enough example if you want to see what I mean. Is there a method of making consistently dark toon edges for the whole wireframe? I already have Edge intensity set to 255. Thanks again all. :slight_smile:

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Instead of worring about adding/modifiying a shader would it not be better to just add the option for a hidden line removal algorithm to the wireframe code?

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Yes, that would be a good feature to have.

The simplest way (that I’m aware of) to do it at present is to duplicate the mesh (alt+D) and give the duplicate a new material with “wire” and “ztransp” switched on, and with a Zoffset of about 0.05. :slight_smile: