Render curves?

[Per-Anders]

you're going to have to turn those edges/curves into splines... then you could use edge extrude pro (or extrude them) and apply a material with no color or specular and jsut luminance to set the color to whatever you want. i've used this pretty effectively in the past and it doesn't look like anything but a nice clean (n-gon style) wireframe.

oh i forgot, unless you want single pixel thickness in which case all you di is use teh "split" command on the areas that you want to have outlines, and use the inbuilt toon shaders which will then just outline these areas for you.

[ThirdEye]

Originally posted by Brent Turbo
Is it possible to render a line drawing made up of curves without doing an extrude along all those curves? Kinda like a cel shader, but different.

The reason being, I have a project where I have to make illustrations of furniture designs. They have to be both line drawings, and full renders. I realize I could just render the wireframe, but really I couldn't make that look decent without n-gons, so I need another approach. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Brent

Use SolidSplinePro by Paul Everett

[chris_b]

Solid Spline Pro is definitely the way to go if you need the curves to be positioned with overlaps in three dimensions.

If a 'hidden-line' technical drawing look is what you are after, though, I would recommend EpsAndEx, which has hidden-line and solid modes that can produce some very nice results.

Do you have an example of the look you are shooting for?

http://www.cinemax4d.de/epsandex/home_us.html

[brammelo]

If it's hidden line rendering you're after, use the flash renderer. Creates exactly what you need, even without n-gons. Of course, you will have to convert those flash files back to something usable.

Cheers,
BaRa

[Brent Turbo]

Cool! Thanks a ton to everyone for the tips. I'm going to try the flash renderer first, because it's, um, free, and then try the others if that doesn't work.

Thanks again for the awesome help,
Brent Turbeaux

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