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Dave Black

01-24-2003, 01:33 AM

Ok all, I know that it's always been a pain to get a shaded wireframe render with Max. Alot of copying the mesh and scaling it, masks and preview renders...Blech.

I finally solved the mystery...I'm probably not the first, but this is obscure enough to be not widely known...Check this out, it does'nt require UV mapping or anything...very cool:

Make a new material.

Make it face-mapped

Now create a new gradient ramp type map in the diffuse channel.

Use these settings:

Dave Black

01-24-2003, 01:35 AM

Map should look something like this

plaguelord

01-24-2003, 02:01 AM

nice trick! thanks:beer:

stillvapour

01-24-2003, 04:19 AM

Simple but useful.
Thanks.

erilaz

01-24-2003, 06:31 AM

I'm gonna use that RIGHT now!
:D

Equinoxx

01-24-2003, 08:28 AM

nice trick, but i do hope you don't mean that you're doing this just to get a shaded wireframe in your viewport ??
cause if so, then turning on edged faces is all . . .

but for rendering a shaded wireframe, this is an ace trick ;)

gaggle

01-24-2003, 08:31 AM

Op well how about that. Almost painfully simple, but hey, many good ideas often are :)

halo

01-24-2003, 10:54 AM

nice tip :D cheers

Matt-Clark

01-24-2003, 02:13 PM

I've used this method in the past. The only thing to be aware of its that your line widths are dependant on the size of your polygons; larger polys will have fatter edges than smaller ones.

Dave Black

01-24-2003, 05:32 PM

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

That's right, both you mods jump on me at once. :D

Equinoxx : You're an evil man...:D

Matt: Thanks fro the tip, I'll remember that.

Anyway, it's just a little workaround. I figured it out last night, and just though I'd post it.

Thanks for looking, all!

-3DZ

:D

Aaron Moore

01-24-2003, 06:36 PM

[NM this post... see what matt said ]

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