Re: wireframe render

["Adrian Wyer" <adrian(at)the-mill.com>]

"all in a matter of seconds or minutes"

lol, try doing a HiDef job at 50i with every sequence being at least 30 
seconds long and tell me it's a matter of seconds!

we NEED a proper wireframe SHADER solution for mental ray, so distributed 
rendering can be used....

anyone?

a

adrian wyer
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "peterb" <peter_b(at)skynet.be>
To: <XSI(at)softimage.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: wireframe render


> hey joey,
>
> what about:
> http://www.phoenixtools.com/products/free_download.html
> there s the PT_showedges that will give you triangles...
>
> if its a nurbs or you got it properly UVmapped you could use the grid
> texture.
>
> but I would go with viewportcapture without hesitating.
> if you do white grid on black background you can use that as alpha.
> or do one pass for the wireframe do another for the alpha with different
> color settings.
> keep in mind you can do the viewport capture with the view as is, be it
> wireframe, constant, hiddenline,...
> you can get depth with fog, you can change the graphics card aliasing all
> the way up in the driver settings, or use the capture's aliasing which is
> much better but slow. you can get incidence with a little lighting trick.
> theres a ton of possibilities, all in a matter of seconds or minutes.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joey Ponthieux" <j.g.ponthieux(at)LaRC.NASA.GOV>
> To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 2:25 AM
> Subject: Re: wireframe render
>
>
> > Thanks everyone, admittedly I had it in the back of my mind that I had
> > seen these options in the Render Engine before but thought it might have
> > been a figment of my imagination from a previous 3D life. So why doesn't
> > Render Region offer this as an option while the formal Render can? When
> > I looked for something earlier I couldnt produce anything via Preview,
> > but that was because Preview was using Render Region's settings.
> > Admittedly this isnt the best solution for my needs, I really need a
> > wireframe shader for this but I guess it could work. Interesting about
> > the Viewport Capture though. Was not yet aware of this feature.
> >
> > Halfdan, how do I get the toon shader to render faces as separate
> > object's? Tris aren't my prefferred option but that may do just fine.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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