Wireframe Shot

[LFShade]

There's a "grab viewport" script somewhere in the \scripts directory if you installed the bonus scripts. Otherwise, you can look on www.scriptspot.com and find it there. It lets you take a screenshot of the active viewport and save it out as an image file.

[NikLG]

...or just press the 'print screen' button on your keyboard, ( or ALT 'print screen' if you want to get just the contents of an active viewport ), open photoshop, make a new image ( file / new ) and then paste into it ( CTRL V ) ( the new image will be the size of your grabbed image when you create it ). :p

[3DMadness]

Search for the file TILESQR.TIF in the ../3dsmax4/maps/misc and put it in the diffuse slot or use it as a mask for a mix map in the diffuse slot so that you can set a color for the wire and another for the face. And don't forget to put face map. I'm attaching an image using this map as a mask for a Mix map.
Cheers!

Flávio

[ilasolomon]

or:
make a copy of your mesh in the same position (shift+click)
then place the PUSH modifier over it & increase the param a
little bit, then apply a wire shader to it
you can assign a solid color material to the original mesh to
view the wire & original in better way.

[JuRrAsStOiL]

@ila_solomon
Tried this some time ago, some times the wire disappears
in the mesh :(
I just clean up my viewport, set up some color, turn on
show surface and edge (lol don't know how it's called in
english :D) and take a screenshot using alt+print.
descent results but it's ok :)
Perhaps discreet will steal this wire-render option from
NewTek's Lightwave ;) :bounce:

[xzevlin]

Use the Lattice modifier. Adjust it so you have no balls at each vertice, and render.

[H2600]

Thank you everyone for your responses. You've been very helpful!

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