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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What is Freestyle chaining?
In the Freestyle render settings under the Freestyle Line Style rollout there are a group of settings having to do with chaining.
I have played around with these settings in a number of ways and ...
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How do I make Freestyle ignore a specific edge, material or object? [duplicate]
I'm currently trying to use Freestyle with Cycles to render a toon shaded image of a robot. The robot is holding a sword, which uses a separate material, and since it glows, I don't want freestyle to ...
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How to do custom Freestyle brush shape in Blender 2.74?
Instead of a solid "pen" line, I would like Freestyle to use a custom brush, that is an image file (e.g. PNG) that I create. I found this post:
Blender Freestyle Brushes
And read his link:
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Mesh silhouette as a polygon or pixels surrounded by the silhouette on the rendered image?
Here is my target application. The rendered image with rendered meshes is used in an interactive application. A user may click or point the cursor to an object on the image. Information related to ...
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How to move freestyle line sets to another layer?
How do you move blender line sets from the initial layer they were created on to another layer?
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How to keep the details and line thickness in freestyle despite the movement of the camera?
I'm trying to do a project with freestyle cartoon style.
I have two characters, one large and one small, both quite detailed. When I render separately I have no problem, but when I put the two ...
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Export smooth SVG using Freestyle
I'm using Freestyle in Blender to export a drawing to an SVG file. The file can be found here: http://www.speedyshare.com/dxsfw/box.blend
When rendered as a png it looks like this
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2.7 How to make an anime looking object
I'm wondering how I would make an object have lines on some edges when rendered, like it was
drawn. I believe the feature is called freestyle, and I activate it in the render options, but my test cube ...
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How to get rid of freestyle faces?
So here's whats happening. I marked all of my faces as freestyle. If I press 'clear freestyle face' the annoying green line over everything stays. Is there something I'm doing wrong or is it something ...
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how can I stop freestyle from drawing in mist?
I have a plane for the ground, but leaving a sharp edge between it and the camera looks odd. so I tried to use mist to help blur the edges and make it look somewhat natural(since I can't just make it ...
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How can lines be smoothed in Freestyle?
For example the lines on this monkey render show pointed edges instead of a smooth curves. How can the lines come out more smooth?
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Hide specific wire line
In this model using 2.70 with toon-rendering and freestyle some edges (circled in red in the image) are rendered that should not be rendered.
I am a old man came from very old blender, so please be ...
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How to show missing edges with Freestyle edge mode?
Are there any settings to make edge marks appear at all angles when rendered? I edge marked part of Suzanne's head but when certain angles are rendered parts of the edge marks are invisible.
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How can I stops background freestyle lines from showing through thin foreground objects when near in zdepth? [closed]
I have two separate objects both using Freestyle lines. They need to be near each other in zdepth. Being cylindrical, the outside one is both in front of and behind the inner one. The Freestyle lines ...
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Can blender create images to look like vector graphics?
I'm looking for another method for creating illustrations for my children's books. I have traditionally worked in Illustrator, but like the idea of modeling and setting my object into different ...
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Rendering mesh edges as solid lines [duplicate]
I have a black and white image which serves as a template for my game.
Non selected country borders are white, and selected country borders should be outlined by solid black lines.
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Rendering freestyle lines in Cycles
I've been using BI to render objects as meshes using freestyle edges. I'm now trying to learn to use Cycles. Is it possible to render freestyle edges in Cycles? If so, how?
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Blender Freestyle Brushes
So far I am only allowed to use the pin brush in Freestyle .Were are the other brushes? Do I have to download them ? If so could someone point me to the site that has them .
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Select the edges drawn by freestyle
I want to be able to select the edges freestyle determines (e.g. silhouette edges), and then, say, draw only those silhouette edges from another view. Is it possible?
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Blender Freestyle - how to make line crossings glow more than lines themselves?
I'm trying to recreate the classic, vintage 1980s look of computer graphics - bright, glowing lines on dark background. However, after analyzing old computer graphics I found out that the ...
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How to make a model shaded with only two colors?
I haven't found any tutorials on cartoon rendering. What I'm trying to achieve is this:
By the way, I know freestyle is not realistic rendering, but I can notice some light bouncing. if that is so, ...
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Straight Lines with no Face, Freestyle
I have a rather lenghty question.
Following situation:
I have a external tool, which can submit data via a TCP-Socket to a modal operator running in Blender-Python.
For normal Meshes and primitives ...
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Is it conceivable to create a Freestyle thickness modifier that multiplies by vertex weights?
I'm quite new to Freestyle but I can imagine using it for great many things. One feature I could really use would be to finetune line thickness with vertex weights, for example masking areas where ...
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How to exclude hair particles from freestyle render?
Is there a way to prevent freestyle from rendering lines on hair particles?
I still want to render lines on the mesh which has the particle system.
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How to make freestyle lines stay the same size?
Is it possible to make freestyle lines stay the same width relative to the distance from the camera?
The way free style lines behave by default, they stay the same width in pixels, but vary relative ...
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Is it possible to deselect freestyle edges?
Is it possible to deselect freestyle edges?
For example, I enabled Material Boundary in Render layers → Freestyle Line Set → Edge Types to draw lines on all edges between faces with ...
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How can I start using Freestyle?
Blender 2.67 is out, and one of its main features is the long-awaited Freestyle integration.
I'd like to try out Freestyle, but it doesn't appear in the "Render Engine" dropdown. I assume some ...
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