Hollow Man

[beestee]

Hello all!

Trying out something a little different for my scale figures. I want to make them silhouettes. The problem I am having is that when I adjust opacity or refraction to make them see-through, I see all the extra geometry within the model visible on the other side. Here is an example:



The result I am looking for is more like this, which I got to by using photoshop and two seperate render passes:

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I want the model to cull itself but nothing else, if that makes sense.

Does any know if there is any way to achieve this in one pass?

Thanks,

Ben

[LarsSonparsson]

http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...-entire-object

This might help. In page 2 post #26, Dmitri is having some almost working solution.

[beestee]

Bingo! Thank you Lasse, and thank you Dmitri!

[beestee]

Here is the result if anyone is interested in this topic:



I will post a file if I can with the mats and some teapots so that you can see the object and vray properties on them...

[beestee]

silhouette share.zip

Of note in the object properties, I have turned off cast and recieve shadows.

Of note in the vray object properties, I have turned off generate GI, visible to GI, and visible in refraction.

Have fun!