Questions tagged [wireframe]
Questions about viewing or rendering an object in wireframe. Wireframe is displayed by drawing only the object's edges. A wireframe is usually used to view the topology of an object.
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How can I render an edge only mesh as solid lines?
I have a schematic of a raspberry pi that is completely flat, no solid faces, just connected vertices.
Is it possible to render these lines somehow, so that it looks like a 2D drawing?
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Rendering with wireframe
I'm making figures to illustrate some details about how meshes work. I'd like to render my scene normally, but overlay all of my meshes in wire mode.
The only solution I've found which works is ...
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How to render as only wireframe in Cycles?
I need to know how to render a object on Blender Cycles but only as a wireframe, for example, like this:
Also, it is possible to vary between the smooth wireframe object and the polygonal wireframe ...
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Create a rounded wireframe?
Is it possible to easily create a rounded wireframe mesh in blender?
The Skin modifier works well, but it's too heavy for even medium meshes; it takes several minuets with the default Suzanne.
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wireframe render over an object with the subdivision surface wireframe?
Is there a way to render an object with a subdivision surface modifier with a wireframe which is the original geometry as well as the wires that make the subdivision surface?
Example:
This wireframe ...
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How to render a pixelated, occluded wireframe with freestyle?
I'd like to combine these features:
The pixelated look of a wire material with anti-aliasing disabled.
Proper occlusion of hidden lines.
A wireframe material produces the first feature, freestyle ...
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Render a wireframe with equal thickness in Cycles?
Is there a way to make a render with freestyle in cycles and use it as a wireframe?
No matter what technique I use, blender always gives me a stretched wireframe. And by that I mean the wireframe is ...
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Can cycles Wireframe Input be coerced into displaying Tris, Quads and Ngons
edit 2 years later: Here is an alternative answer that meets the desired end-result using FreeStyle.
Is there a way to make the wireframe input show the geometry as BMesh polygons instead of the raw ...
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Render wireframes with hidden wires?
I need to render my models in wireframe (no solid). I first turned to the Wireframe modifier, it works great. Only I can see through to the wires at the back of the model. I need to render only the ...
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How can I make an object render with a wireframe in the game engine?
I want it to look like the top image when I press P, so it has those lines around each face.
Like this:
Not like this:
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How to render an object with both a base mesh wireframe and subdivision surface wireframe?
How can an object be to rendered using the cycles render engine so that it renders with normal maps, specular maps, etc, and shows wireframes of the mesh and the subdivision surface modifier? For ...
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How Do I Save 3d View as a Wireframe Image? (Blender Render)
I have some objects that I want to save their wireframe view as an image file.
Someone told me to use the OpenGL render active viewport button on the 3d viewer's menu header, but I just get an error ...
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Why does the wire-frame material fades across the object?
Why does the wire-frame material fades across the object?
Here is what I did - I created a new material and I selected on "Wire" and I made it shadeless. Then, I created a new material and assigned ...
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Is it possible to import the outline or profile of something from a picture to use as a line in a wireframe?
I have some engineering schematics for an aircraft I want to make a 3d model of. These schematics includes cross-sections of the air foil at different parts of the aircraft, basically what you would ...
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How to make the Wireframes for these lights?
I am trying to reproduce on my CNC a wireframe skull that was etched on acrylic and put into an LED base. It is made by a company called Bulbing; I found it on Youtube. I was hoping that some one ...
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Wire with SubSurf doesn't follow surface in Edit mode
How do I smooth the grid along the mesh? I've been looking for the answer all day and I couldn't find anything.
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Wireframe and halo together
I have a simple mesh and like to render it as halo and wireframe.
Unfortunately they render only wireframe OR halo. I tried to mix halo and wireframe but i guess it affects only to the color.
What i ...
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How to make a material switching from Wire frame material to surface material?
Is it possible animating the wire frame material Changes to surface material?
I want to make a material that's first Wire & it fades to solid surface material & Vice versa.
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Dashed line and Wireframe
I'm trying to render a cube with 2 additional vertical edges on a one of the faces.
I use the wireframe modifier for making faces transparent and freestyle for making the dashed edges.
The issue is ...
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How to render an object as a transparent wireframe?
I'm a psychology student (and 3D design noob) who's been tasked with designing items for a test of spatial ability like this example...
I've been playing around with Blender, and I've gotten this ...
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How to keep one object on certain view mode?
I'm trying to keep my reference image that I important as a plane in Material mode while I can still adjust the object I'm modeling by switching between Wireframe and Solid (by using Z). Every time I ...
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"wire_mat_gui" add-on, how to render wireframe with visible edges only?
I'm trying to render a wireframe combined with solid using this addon, but for some reason it shows some edges that should be hidden. I made some research but couldn't find anything as I don't know ...
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How to get solid render with wireframes and no shading
I got this by using the advice here...
How to display the edges of a mesh while in Object mode?
Basically, use object mode and check "wire" and "display edges". Then I adjust materials until I can ...
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Edges of the model are visible in Object Mode [duplicate]
I'm not in Edit Mode, but the Edges of the model are visible. How can I hide them in Object Mode?
In Blender, I'm not in Edit Mode, but the edges of the model are visible.
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Is there a way to render a wireframe independent of its topology?
Lets say I have an object and I want to render it in squarish wireframe in orthographic view. Here is what I mean -
I am not looking for a specific topology in the 3d view, but what ever the ...
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How can i feed the output of the Dynamic Paint into the input of the Wireframe Node?
How can i feed the output of the Dynamic Paint into the input of the Wireframe Node (or any other Node)? So that the red areas show a bigger wireframe effect than the the blue areas.
The effect ...
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Freestyle Wireframe SVG Export Workaround?
Little disclaimer: I don't have much experience with Blender or 3D modelling at all, just downloaded the program last week.
My goal is to create polyhedra, then render out the wireframe as a SVG.
I ...
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How to make a wireframe render?
I am selling my model in turbosquid. They told me that you must publish a wireframe render of the scene. But the best I could do was to switch from solid view to wireframe mode and take a screen shot ...
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have i toggled wireframe? [duplicate]
Hi I seem to have toggled wireframe and I can't get out of it or is this wireframe at all? I hit Z and nothing changes
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See background image through solid shading in edit mode
I am modeling a person's head and face using front and side reference images. I have set the reference images as Background Images for the "Front Ortho" and "Right Ortho" views, respectively. For the ...
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How to render Wireframe for the entire scene not just one object?
Sorry if this is a daft question but in all the tutorials I've watched it just shows how to do a wireframe for one object not an entire scene and I don't really fancy having to select every single ...
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What is the setting that changes wire frame thickness?
Hi definition display makes my wire frame very very thin, is there a setting in blender that increases the visibility for wire frame?
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How to create a 'ribbon wrapped' sphere?
I am trying to turn the below 2D image of a "ribbon wrapped around a sphere" into a 3D model in Blender.
So far, adding wire frame does not give the results I need. I can break the image into a "...
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Solid Wireframe, F4 shortcut
I'm new to Blender - and to any 3D modelling software, really - so I started following tutorials on Youtube. In this particular case, the OP says to toggle the wireframe on the solid interface by ...
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How to render surface divisions for subsurface modifier? [duplicate]
I want to render the outline of faces as shown in the below image to show the divisions of panels. How to do this in Blender?
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How to build a Low Poly on a High Poly while being able to see both?
All the view options I can find make it hard to see the low poly mesh and the high poly mesh at the same time. (This is for baking a high poly onto a low poly) Is there something I'm missing?
This ...
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How to fill the surface of a "wireframe"-sphere in Blender
I have half a sphere together with a full sphere as separate objects in a blender file. I load them from a X3D file I generate externally. I get them as something, which seems to be something like a ...
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RGB lighting on a wireframe in Cycles
I'm trying to make a wire frame around a box have RGB colors emitting from it, well they don't have to emit, just 'glow' with the colors Red Green and Blue, RGB. it's for a small project, I wan't a ...
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How to bake wireframe to texture? no i'm not referring to export uv
i'm modeling an hard surface with subdivision, bevels and so on.
I would like to bake the final wireframe to texture, with all the subsurf, bevels, bools etc.
Is it possible?
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Convert scene to wireframe (texture glitch)
I have a large scene with ~500 objects and I want to turn it into wireframe so I can assign blue emission shader and have sci-fi looking scene like this ground here:
How can I achieve that if I have ~...
