Questions tagged [freestyle]
An edge and line-based non-photorealistic (NPR) rendering engine. Available in Blender since version 2.67. Use this tag for all of your Freestyle related questions.
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The Freestyle check box in the Render tab reads "Freestyle SVG Export" instead of "Freestyle"
I'm using Blender 2.91. I've watched a couple of videos where the plugin is called "Freestyle" However, when I enable the only plugin I can find Preferences -> add-ons it called itself &...
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Inconsistant edges and lights rendering for orthogonal pixel art with freestyle
I'm trying to recreate a Gameboy pixel-art style using a front-facing orthogonal view and freestyle for edges. My reference is this well-known picture from a pokemon game:
My main problem is that ...
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Simplify freestyle svg
I am trying to export this part to an svg and would like to keep the exported paths as simple as possible:
The result looks good at first
However, when viewed in Inkscape the results I get are short ...
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whats the best outline for toon/anime outlines, freestyle vs inverted hull method vs some other method i dont know in 2.9? [closed]
I'm doing anime style animations, but I'm having trouble figuring out what's the best outline method to use. Keep in mind this is full animations, not an image. I'll also be using 2d plane assets for ...
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Error: Freestyle Lines Ignoring Displacement
I have been trying to get my animations to have a hand-drawn look and wanted to make my models slightly wiggle with procedural displacement on each frame. I also want to outline each object, so I am ...
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unwanted freestyle lines with poor-geometry sketchup import
I'm a street designer who usually works in Sketchup/AI, looking to move my rendering to Blender. Having issues with unwanted freestyle lines on an imported Sketchup model of a street design. The ...
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How would I get this 3 tone lighting effect for edges?
I want to get this effect that defines the edges and then colors them with 3 tone coloring, I've tried with freestyle but I want to get the same effect, I think this wad one is workbench
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freestyle on workbench engin in blender 2.8
in blender 2.8 ,is there is any way to make real time freestyle on workbench engin or (real time edges outline) --- like CAD software (no lighting setup just focus on modeling design with clear sharp ...
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Freestyle with multiple objects [duplicate]
I have several objects that intersect each other:
I would like to draw lines on the silhouette and key details with Freestyle, however Blender does detect intersections between objects and gives a ...
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Any way I can remove everything except the outline?
Exactly like the question says. I'm using the freestyle tool. Is there any way to remove all the faces in this image and just keep the outline. Either in edit mode or rendering? Or do I need to learn ...
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What is wrong with my mesh? Freestyle render is glitchy and won't show certain lines
I’m a beginner modeler and make backgrounds for a personal comic in a freestyle render. But for some reason in this particular file, freestyle render is not working properly. Each line appears, ...
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Render background and freestyle in different image layers
Can anyone tell me how to render an image (tiff) with two different layers, one for background (need it white) and one for the rest of the render (just freestyle lines).
I am using Blender 2.8
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Adjusting Freestyle in the Blender compositor
Can anyone tell me if it's possible to adjust freestyle in the compositor?
I'm using it in my short film and its a drag to actually render the whole thing every time to see the changes I made.
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Outline works, but badly
I'm very new at Blender but have (or had) a pretty extensive knowledge of 3dsmax. So I've managed to make this shape, and even managed to do outlines to make it look like a drawing, which is what I'm ...
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Fisheye + Freestyle
I would like to render a freestyle line over a render with fisheye lens in 2.9. Is this possible?
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How to copy Linesets between scenes?
I want to copy Linesets from one file to another. I appended the required scene from the source file to the target file. Then following THIS ANSWER from blenderartists.org, I tried copy-pasting the ...
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Set Vertex Colors as Freestyle Line Colors
I was trying to figure out how to make the Freestyle line colors the same colors as the vertex paint but couldn't figure it out. Is this possible? If so how do I do it?
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How is the demo image for "Freestyle SVG Exporter" in the Blender manual made?
On the page for Freestyle SVG Exporter, there's a demo image with 2 monkey head with Freestyle stripes. How could those stripes be made?
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How to create wireframe fade off effect like this?
Can this be done with freestyle lines alone? or do I have to render separate layers and do it in the compositor?
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Freestyle renders broken contours
I have been playing with freestyle lately. I end up with the following wrong rendering with discontinuous contours on the blue shapes and I really don't understand why. The freestyle setting are ...
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How do I get freestyle lines to render "behind" a mesh?
I'm using freestyle to create thick, bold black outlines around my models. I use a line set with external contour edge type at a high thickness value. The problem I am having is that my freestyle ...
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How to assign freestyle attributes to different objects for rendering?
I have a quadrilateral mesh and a triangle mesh in my collection, for quadrilaterial we want to render the visible edge, for triangle mesh we want to render the whole boundary which included the ...
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Freestyle not drawing all the edges
I have a problem with Freestyle rendering: I can't make it draw all the edges. Sometimes it just skips them. I recreated this with a cube and two planes by just adding additional loop cuts:
Does ...
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I can't make freestyle to work in blender 2.8 (file provided)
I can make freestyle to work when I start a new project. But I can't make it work when I'm working in my scene. I tried reading lots of post everywhere but I can't solve this problem. Please help me.
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Freestyle without anti aliasing for pixel art (2.8)
I've got a simple question that likely has a very complicated answer.
Simple enough, I need to know how to make these freestyle lines completely sharp. I'm trying to make pixel art. By default, ...
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Compositing Workflow/How to compose a render after restarting Blender?
I'm new to Blender (coming from C4D) and currenty working on an architectural visualisation like this:
The Image is a placeholder because I can't show the project.
I made three view layers
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Freestyle Line Separated By Material
I am trying to have my freestyle line be separated by each individual material, so it goes around each material separately here is an image
as you can see i am trying to mimic the portal stye of ...
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is there a way to freestyle the trasnparent images?
So i made the mout on a plane and used a mix shader and transparent shader to make it transparent, i only want the external freestyle line, and want the mouth highlighted as well but it only out lines ...
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How to get more control over Freestyle external contour lines
I'm looking for a way to get Freestyle to render just the outline lines around objects. Using inclusive + logical Or + external contour seems to do what I want when rendering objects over a ...
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Can Freestyle Visibility accuracy be improved?
It seems to me the freestyle visibility computation is erroneous. I am getting lines where they should not be visible.
This is the scene I am trying to add freestyle lines to:
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Freestyle lines behind transparent plane blender 3d
Please, help me. I have a problem with Freestyle (eevee/cycles)
I want to draw cube lines behind with transparency.
I have already experimented with groups and collections (already in the past).
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What does the Freestyle Diffuse Color Modifier do?
I can't find any info on it. Anyone know what it does? Really curious.
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Why i cannot change freestyle colour in eevee?
happen only in eevee in 2.83 and 2.83.1.
Everytime i change the colour other than black it turn like this
works fine in cycle (freestyle in green)
already tried redownload blender and using factory ...
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Making a flickering outline
So I haven't seen this posted anywhere. I'm trying to get a as-much-as-possible hand drawn effect. I've noticed that flickering outlines can help a lot to achieve that look. However, I've tried many ...
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Is there any way to prevent Freestyle from wasting time calculating objects that were excluded from rendering?
I love making animations that use high amounts of reflective surfaces, and recently have been trying my hand at Freestyle which is amazingly fun.
In my current project, I am trying to make only one ...
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How to export flat image to cartoon freestyle vector file
How to create this image cartoon style. With the mesh we can add toon shader and freestyle, we can have cartoon style outline and toon shade on it. I want to export as vector file.
For example this ...
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How to apply freestyle on only one mesh? [duplicate]
I have a scene in Blender in which I want to apply freestyle effects to just one object. Is this possible. How can I do it?
(I'm using Cycles)
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freestyle line out of sync 2.82.7
I'm having an issue if i run the animation render, after about 20-40 frames it starts to form a offset from the model lines. If I just render each frame out manually it doesn't go out of sync. I'm not ...
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Why does my freestyle cycles render appear all black?
Alright so I've been trying to play with compositing and adding a freestyle layer on top.
I realized the render came out all black and it turns out rendering freestyle in cycles gives me an all black ...
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How to get topographical contour lines like shown in manual? Analogous to Rhino3D functionality?
The Freestyle SVG Exporter page in the manual shows this image:
but doesn't really have any indication of how to achieve this contour line look...
I did some more digging around and found an article ...
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Wireframe shader with gradient colors
I am trying to land a project similar to the one in this image. Any ideas how I could get a similar render for any type of figure, for example a Torus or an octagon? I don't care about the mesh, but ...
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Freestyle outline similar to viewport outline?
I'm trying to make a title sequence where the text 'inflates' to wipe transition into the first scene. I'm using a curve object with an emission shader to do this and increasing bevel depth to inflate ...
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Freestyle Background color not white?
I'm following this tutorial and I've set my compositor up in the exact same way as he did, except my background is like a slightly light grey and I don't know why. In his video's he's getting a ...
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How to make quick 2d animation with blender? Npr
I don't know much about blender at all but I want to make 3d animations but wanting it to look 2d. 3d animations that try to look 2d are clearly 3d and I know it can be done with npr and freestyle but ...
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freestyle vs wireframe viewport
hello kind blender stack exchange folks!
does anyone know any tips to make the freestyle match viewport wireframe?
I am new to blender, but I found I really like using wireframe mode to create ...
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Improving / increasing the quality of line-art of SVG file (blend file included)
My goal is to export the image as an SVG then convert it to an EPS using Inkscape. But the SVG line-art isn't well defined and the SVG file is blank how can I improve / fix this? I included the ...
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Unable to create a dashed edges with Freestyle
I am trying to make an object that is rendered in wireframe with dashed edges. So far I am working on a model which is using Freestyle. I have tried a lot of settings but still not achieving what I ...
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Freestyle Line Style noise modifier not working [closed]
Solved. I recently started learning Blender and I was playing with the Freestyle option with Suzanne. I would like to achieve a "hand-drawn" effect, so I added a 2D offset type modifier to Freestyle ...
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Properly render freestyle in this example?
I have a set of planes which I have "solidified" and then Boolean intersected with a skeletal hand to form the below model. The skeletal hand lines and the plane lines are in two different collections,...
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Render to vector file using command line + Freestyle
I am trying to render to a vector file using Freestyle. I have enabled it in my file and when I render to image via GUI, it generates both a PNG and an SVG file, so everything is OK. When I do it via ...
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