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Dare
03-18-2003, 09:40 AM
Hi all,

I need to have ink (black outline) on every face of my object, ie. make a box with 3 segm height and want to have every face outlined. I know this can be done by playing with matId or smoothing groops, but I need more elegant solution.

Thanx in advance,
Dare

gaggle
03-18-2003, 09:49 AM
Could you use the Wire setting in the shader settings? Ie. try and duplicate your object, apply a wire'ed material to it, and apply a "push" modifier set to some tiny number. The idea is to push all the verticies outwards so the wire lines starts to show up.

This could solve your problem?

There is a more elegant solution to the wire-thing, using a gradient-ramp as far as I can remember.. I.. don't remember the specifics though hm.. do a search on the forum? Or maybe someone else remembers..

Dare
03-18-2003, 10:24 AM
Thanx Gaggle,

your solution works fine, except you can not vary the width of the line..... like when you use variable width in the ink parameters rollout ....

I`ll try to find something on that gradient ramp-wire issue.
Dare

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