Nurbs wireframe rendering

[flipside]

Hi,

I have to do a render where some objects need to be 'see-trough'. When I give them a material with some refraction and ior=1.0, then you don't see what the object represents anymore.

So I want to show the objects edges. With vrayedgestex, all the mesh lines become visible (see example). With vraytoon, all objects get lines around them.

Is there a way to render a wireframe, but only on object edges?

Any help greatly appreciated!

wouter

[dbuchhofer]

playing with the settings on the vraytoon can do that (Check the help, i dont recall which setting).. or you can render a 'pass' with ink&paint and save the ink layer out via the render elements in scanline..

[flipside]

Yeah but then all objects get lines.

I found a workaround by exctracting the curves of the nurbs objects and making them renderable.

[Candelero]

Yes, that is a nice idea...
Looking at your image - reminds me the old days, with MAX 5 and importing
3Ds from AutoCAD...
All the solids come just like that... with all the edges visible...

[Dynedain]

Couple things to try, play with the angle setting in the vray toon, you might be able to get rid of the line, or convert to an editable poly and remove the triangle edge keeping the model to quads