I’ll gladly file a dedicated feature request to allow you to also have all-equal outlines in your project accordingly. Let me know in case you want to add anything further to it!
This didn’t use to be the case though. For us this feels like a bug as well. Renders with outlines on look very weird now (it actually looks much better in the preview window then the final render).
I’ve not been able to see any differences in outline output if you compare 2.3 with 2.4, so is there maybe any chance you could send me a comparison screenshot? Or let me know in which version this behavior was different?
@Thomas_Willberger might remember this: very early on (I think 1.8 or before) outlines would only appear on certain edges. So half the edges were always missing. We filed a request to improve that and then from 1.9 (could have been later) the edge quality got a drastic improvement. However, somewhere along the way (2.2, 2.3?) it seemed we are now back to the old behavior but only whenexporting. The preview window still shows all the outlines but the render drops a bunch of them. It looks really off.
I’m not sure which version this happened because we haven’t outputted conceptual renderings for a long time. We just started 5 new projects in the office and now conceptual renderings are very relevant again
If I had to make a guess, it seems like the outlines are only being rendered when there is empty space behind them (similar to the silhouettes effect native to Revit). I really think that is a wrong call. If you really want to add a silhouetting effect, it should be an extra option to make the silhouette edges thicker (but it should never drop the normal edges). In our case we just want the edges as we see them in the preview window, nothing less, nothing more
We have not changed anything in the outline detection from 2.3 to 2.4. Therefore, I’m also very interested in 1:1 comparisons. We create these comparison images automatically for internal quality assurance and they do not show a difference.
Couldn’t we not stay on the question - is there a chance to get equal outlines on all edges? I’m sure it will match the basic need of the most users and this was the first question of the thread. Any other effect could be enabled as extra feature.
I agree with the above. I might be wrong about the difference between 2.3 and 2.4 but I am absolutely confident that somewhere along the way this changed. Perhaps this happened more than a year ago and it went undetected because we weren’t creating conceptual images with outlines on, but we are now and they don’t look good.
We’ve been doing screencaptures the last few weeks but that really sucks. I want nice and crisp 4k output with decent outlines
Sure, we may add that option in a future version to have other/solid/better outlines. If it had accidentally gotten worse, it would have had top priority to fix such a central feature. Thats why I was asking, I’m not denying that we can improve on this end.
Ok tested it with different versions and you were right @Thomas_Willberger , the behavior has not changed in the last releases.
We probably didn’t notice this because most of our teams were in construction (not outputting conceptual images). We’ve wrapped up a bunch of projects and starting new ones, putting out a lot of conceptual renders. The quality of the outlines on 4k has been disappointing.
There is just such a huge difference between what we see on the Enscape preview window (where the outlines look perfect) and the export (especially if you go 4K). I would hope that you would be able to get more consistency between the two (ideally change the exports to match the preview window better).
We have changed the outline behavior so that it remains visually identical across different resolutions. It will probably included in the next preview.