Corona Wire Tex - only outlines?

Is it possible to highlight only outlines using this texture, something like V-Ray Toon? I am looking at it but I can’t seem to find it. Whatever I try I always end up highlighting complete wireframe (which I guess is what this texture is all about in the end, but I still wondered if there could be some trick to it).

Or is there some other way to do it?

Thought so :smiley: wondered if there was some catch to imitate it though. Thank you!

Cool, sounds great :smiley: I will also try to come up with something myself meanwhile. Looking forward to your results!

A wild monday morning shot.

How about using a Cmasking_Mask (grayscaled desaturated) and in post use “detect borders” in photoshop (Or after effects) and overlay over Beauty pass in Multiply mode?.

Cmasking_Mask can produce a nice “mask” of various types by material, by object manual selection, by GBuf ID etc…

That would give you a nice outline. around a selected object.
Now if you need a good toon shader Vray has a simple one you could use (as you say).
If you need it you could render a pass in corona as beauty, and use Vray with an override material (a White one) and addd Vray toon.
You can always overlay that over a corona render in multiply mode.
Excuse my monday grammar.

Hehe crazy Boris :smiley: always some cute workarounds from you, I really appreciate it! Will definitely try it out tonight, thank you!

Here is a screenshot of my current project, it is very early WIP (missing more then half of the furniture and details).. just to give you a hint of what look I am trying to achieve through Corona. This is rendered with V-Ray Toon.

EDIT: Yes the outer walls are so fat :smiley: old stone house, renovated into vacation villa with pool.

You can employ CoronaAo map too. Although it’s very sensitive on angle between polygons.

Hmm interesting one Romullus, I will give it a shot as well :). Thank you!

Thank you Raw :smiley:

Tried playing a bit with CoronaAO map today… didn’t really came out quite good. I just can’t seem to find some sweet spot or to tweak it enough to imitate V-Ray Toon effect.

Here is the comparison :confused:


Have you though in extracting the line as a separate element with a scanline or vray render?

Cheers.

Hmm nope, interesting idea, gonna give it a shot :smiley: Thank you!

Try this one.
Wireframe.mat (24 KB)

This is really handy. Thanks Nahaf

Hi

Here are a couple of Corona outline materials that use Mix maps and soft edges and AO.
basic but easy to use…
Outline.mat (32 KB)