How to wireframe on shaded in Max?

[mouj]

Howdy !

not sure 'bout that one, but maybe using a lattice modifier on top of a cloned mesh might work ?

mouj

[Rivendale]

you can clone the mesh and apply a wire-material to it. Sometimes
the wire will render on top and sometimes not. You might have to render a few times to get it to render on top. If it doesn't just do something, like select a different material slot and render again. If you have several meshes it might render on top on some and not on some so it works best if you have a single mesh. Don't know if there's a way to always have it render on top, I'd like to know that as well.
I guess you could use a push modifier on the wire-mesh and push it slightly to have it render on top, but that won't be very precise.

[dans]

Copy + push is the way to go :)

Daniel

[robioto]

Some good ideas. This is just one more reason why I like 3dsmax so much, the kickass community and fellow users!

I'll post some tests if it works out or if I find a shortcut/trick.

Thanks again everybody!

Robert

[urgaffel]

Dans got it right. Make a copy (or reference), apply push and a wire material. Voilá, wireframe will be rendered on top of regular shaded model

[Stroker]

Blah!
Copy the mesh/epoly. If mesh, then convert to epoly.
Sub-mode > Lines.
Select all Lines and Make Shape(?).
Delete the copy.
Back to the new Shape.
Make new Shape Renderable and all that jazz.

Just to be different.

[Supernova]

Stroker, this will create tons of unnecessary polys...
I think the easyest and fastest way will be to use Texporter to make a texture of your wire and then apply it to the mesh...

Never tryed it before but it should work.

[Neox]

the easiest way is the way of dans and urgaffel...

[thomaspecht]

even with a push-mod applied, sometimes the wireframe model just won't render over the shaded one - or flicker during animations.

doing stills is relatively easy though, since there's an easy workaround as described by rivendale.

[robioto]

The push modifier worked well for me bu it does as you guys said tend to do it's own thing. If I just move the model a little bit I get it to show up again.

Thanks guys it looks like this is the best wasy to go. Maybe in the next Max version we'll get this.

Robert

[sbv20]

there is a procedural texture plugin called edge map 2 I believe that does just what you want (i think). heres an example on something i modelled:
http://analogbubblebath.net/~crayon/my_graphics/splash06a.jpg

i don't have a url i'm afraid, maybe someone can help you out there

[dvornik]

snotmonster's edgemap kicks ass, I agree:
http://www.snotmonster.com

[ian_foster]

yeah, edgemap by snotonster is good. Unfortunalty it doesn't work on a global scale though, so if you have long edges and short edges, the short ones will render "thicker" than the long edges.

I used it as a self illumination map to achieve the "Tron" effect. It sort of works, but you have to divide edges and hide others so you get a uniform look and just the edges you want rendered.

[robioto]

This looks good enough, the line weight variance is a little bothersome but it's so cool otherwise I'll deal with it.

Thanks again, great tip!

Robert

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