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# 1 11-01-2003 , 04:51 PM

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hye all
i'd like to render an object in wireframe
did you make it from the material like in max
or is it on the objects attributes
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# 2 11-01-2003 , 05:38 PM

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I think we need a plug in, but I'm not sure.

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# 3 11-01-2003 , 07:31 PM

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Yeah I believe you would need a plug-in to render it out in wireframe. If you don't have any special effects like glows and fire, you could always just take a snap shot of it in perspective view with Alt+Print Screen. Paste it to a Paint file and you've got a wireframe image.

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# 4 11-01-2003 , 07:35 PM

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yeah the snap screen solution seems fast & easy but i have only one object wireframed in my scene and i try to get the shadows of the wireframe

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# 5 12-01-2003 , 01:44 AM

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This might be the plugin you're looking for: Create Wire.

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# 6 12-01-2003 , 06:28 AM

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thx for the link

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# 7 12-01-2003 , 02:10 PM

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Wire render.

Here's another one which is quite good, Wiredata. You should be able to find it on www.highend3d.com, also it should work with maya 4 and 4.5 unlike the previous plugin.

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# 8 12-01-2003 , 06:49 PM

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Ade, your link doesn't work, bro. Here's the link to wireData. It's at the bottom of the page.

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# 9 13-01-2003 , 12:57 AM

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If I'm not mistaken you can hardware render a wireframe.

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# 10 13-01-2003 , 01:07 AM

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Yes you can, but he needs to have shadows in there as well.

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# 11 13-01-2003 , 01:10 AM

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Do a shadow pass in software and composite it with the hw rendered wireframe?

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# 12 15-01-2003 , 01:52 AM

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hey Kbrown your supposition seems to be cool but how can i render an image with only the shadows user added image

if it is possible you can change my maya life
and maybe it will save me a lot of time which probably can save my mariage
(who knows...lol)

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# 13 15-01-2003 , 07:49 AM

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You need to enable render layers and passes. They're in the render globals. From there you can control what passes (beauty, color, shadows, etc) will be rendered. I think you need to use the batch render as well... not sure tho.

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# 14 21-01-2003 , 09:29 AM

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ok coincidence or wat, i've posted another wireframe question at https://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...&threadid=3372
after that i tried to d/l the plugin but my maya4.5 cant support it.
after that managed to play around with hypersahde and managed to get some results! user added image

heres how i do it :
1)asign check to the shader under "transparancy"
2)open up connection editor and did some changes(refer to pic)

dont know if its the correct way
cheers user added image