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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Armature display can't be set in solid or textured mode : is this a bug of blender 2.8?
I'm trying to display the armature in solid or textured mode by activating the option that's under the Object/Viewport display/display as,but it does not work. Infact the armature is visibile only in ...
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make a object see through to reference image behind
I was working on a subway from a tutorial and when I try to go into wireframe mode the image disappears anyway for me to fix this?
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What is the best way to make these wire wraps around a mesh?
i'm trying to re-create this type of effect on a body mesh i have modeled
basically lots of metal curves wrapped around the mesh, most of them starting from the chest area (the center, core in the ...
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Blender 2.8 - Wireframed objects not rendering
Must have accidentally gotten into some kind of ghost mode for 2 out of hundreds of objects. They show as black wireframes, are editable, but only show as wireframe in every shading mode, and don't ...
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Can I bake a wireframe to a texture map?
I applied subdivide smooth three times(via specials menu) to a body mesh I'm working on, back to object mode, switch to wireframe display (with display all edges disabled), then Blender shows the mesh ...
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Rendering as wireframe only
I need a simple wireframe only render with a white background.
Any tips on how I could get it?
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Why does my object dissapear when i press 'only render'?
I'm making an scene with some trees that are a particle system, i have plenty of planes with that particle system, but the last three planes i created for the scene, using the same particle system, ...
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How do I get rid of this wireframe on my object? [duplicate]
My low poly log cabin has a strange wireframe showing through the solid view making it difficult to select certain faces without selecting ones behind it.
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Where is the "Virtual Pixel Mode" option?
I'm searching for an option to make shown wireframe thicker. I found one solution there What is the setting that changes wire frame thickness?, but I can't find that Virtual Pixel Mode switch in my ...
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I pressed c in editing mode and can't get back
can somebody help me? I'm on my Mac Book Pro (without Numpad - I KNOW) and I need a shortcut or something to untag the object. I can't press any other button and I don't know when I saved it the last ...
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wireframe in 2.8
In 2.8 Wireframe mode is so horrible. Is there a way to get that old wireframe mode?
It is now so difficult to distinguish two overlapped meshes in wireframe mode. Because in 2.8 it's like a half ...
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GreasePencil goes trough a mesh in wireframe mode 2.79
Good day. I'm trying to use GP to trace some details on the mesh from the background image, which means I need to work in the wireframe mode. But it seems GP won't snap to surface properly:
A. Detail ...
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crazy spikes when adding wireframe modifier
I'm working with this model:
https://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/1005602
Totally groovy, right?
So I am trying to add a wireframe modifier for use in some game experiments with ...
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Render a wireframe animation where only half of the mesh has wireframe
How can i render a wireframe on an animated rotating mesh, where only
the right side of the camera view is shown in wireframe, but the other half shows the mesh withouth it.
Only the parts of the ...
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Any way to temporary hide wire frame in edit mode (2.80)?
I would like to be able to toggle wire frame visibility off and on without exiting edit mode, to be able to see the surface better, but without changing the camera's rotation origin (using rotate ...
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I have two separate objects that I'd like to use either to refer & align with, except when I enter wireframe this hides the shape I wish to refer to
I have two objects that are in different collections or layers idk (point is they dont merge with each other must access layout mode to work on either.
see title:
"I have two separate objects that I'...
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How To Render a Wireframe of a model in Blender 2.8
I’m trying to render the wireframes of a model for a turntable animation in Blender 2.8 to show in my portfolio. The turntable renders the mesh perfectly, but the Freestyle Line Set renders only the ...
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How can I bind viewport display display as wireframe (wire) to a hotkey?
I'm trying to hotkey Blender's function of a mesh object in the viewport to be displayed as a wireframe (the one that can be found in the Object --> Viewport Display tab --> Display as wire). I ...
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Why are there dotted lines in wireframe in 2.8?
I am testing 2.8 and I stumbled over the wireframe.
As you can see the I put a cylinder in between two objects.
The lines being hidden by the other objects are more dotted than solid lines
In the top-...
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What does it mean if my wireframe looks like this? (Discontinuous lines) [duplicate]
I'm trying to make a tent, but I just noticed that when I see the wireframe of my object it looks like a messy mesh
However in edit mode things are better
Why is that the wireframe looks like that? ...
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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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edit mode (wire) renders different than object wire frame mode in blender 2.7.9 [duplicate]
Someone else must have asked this but I'm not searching the right phrase or words to get at it/them.
I'm extruding plane edges from a 4 point plane to create a mesh, and I extrude one or more edges ...
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Slow performance in viewport even in wireframe mode
This is my first question here. I have been looking but haven't found a proper answer. Hope someone can put me on the right track.
I have painfully built a scene, with a lot of problems because I ...
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Is it possible to change the opacity of wires in version 2.8?
I just downloaded Blender 2.8 and I really like the new interface and many of the new features, but I have run into an issue where I can't really see a reference image behind my mesh, even with ...
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can't get out of wireframe mode [duplicate]
for some reason my mesh is only visible as a wireframe. I would like to get it back to a solid or textured view. Any suggestions?
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How to import 2D/3D CAD drawing into Blender and how to convert wireframes to faces?
I'm trying to import CAD drawings into Blender. I have read and looked at some tutorials about this, but it's not working! I can use DraftSight to transform a .dwg file to .svg, but to transform a ....
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Weird wireframe display on viewport when in camera (or certain angle maybe) [duplicate]
Weird wireframe display on viewport when in camera (or certain angle maybe)
It happens with a certain camera, but it is not like this in perspective view, and I do not think this is overlapping ...
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Get outside wireframe
I am a begginer and have to make something like that:
With plane geometry I can easily make, but with curves the triangulation gets in the way...
How to make a wireframe only for external edges, ...
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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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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 ~...
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Faces won't appear regardless of it being in wireframe or solid [duplicate]
So as you can see the faces are there, but the object is not in wireframe. It is in solid. How do I make it so the faces appear? I have tried alt+H and pressing z too many times to count.
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Let wireframe node only show edges where normal changes
I am mixing a diffuse shader and a transparent shader in a cycles matrial. As factor input for the mix shader node I use the output of a wireframe node.
So the wireframe node will output 1 where an ...
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how to make current obj solid and other obj as wireframe?
when in edit mode, i want the current obj as solid shaded while all other object displayed as wireframe . How can i do this ?
Also how if i want other obj to be hidden , so everytime i go to edit ...
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Render simple lines in cycles
Here is the obj that I'm trying to render (they represent charged particles)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/e3w87d38pqizjzr/event000000000-tracks.obj?dl=0
Edit: just to be clear, these aren't arbitrary ...
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Seeing through high-res wireframes
Sometimes when working with high density meshes (like sculpting in multires, which is my case) in wireframe mode, there are so many edges that I can barely see through the model, making it very hard ...
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Object material/color not visible - Only wireframe
I'm a total beginner in Blender and I can't get this object to show any color/material. Once I merged the bottom circle with the plane, the plane lost it's color and now only a wireframe is visible. 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.
Blender Internal ...
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How to show wireframe on shaded object in 3D View?
Is it possible to show wireframe on shaded objects in the 3D View?
I'm looking for something like below:
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How can I render a material with wireframe and keep the faces showing, in the BGE?
OK so I know how to render a material with just wireframe only, but when the game engine is on, the material becomes completely transparent and only displays the wireframe with the color i gave it in ...
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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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How to remove lines from wireframe...?
I made a surface and added a wireframe modifier on top of that. I want to remove just horizontal lines from the mesh. How can I do that..? Please help. I have highlighted it in the picture below.
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How do I created a solid model from an imported wireframe?
I have imported a CSV file to give me vertices and edges using the addon CSV mesh Importer, but none of the edges connect. I have trying to model a ship from a video game so I can export and 3D print ...
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Is there anyway to make a constellation by only lighting up vertices of an object
I am trying to make a constellation of an outline I made, but I can't find a way to only have the vertices glow.
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Faces in solid mode suddely seem to be weidly bugged
My problem seems to be simple yet I can't really countinue this project without a solution.
I've been modeling a building. Then once I switched back from wireframe mode to solid mode and my whole ...
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Beginner videos [closed]
I downloaded Blender about a week ago and I still can't get past "import the picture". I've watched every video I can find, but it doesn't work. Probably something really simple but I'm stumped. Tried ...
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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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I cant use the Z command for wireframe
I was doing some 3d modeling from a tutorial then when I added a circle I pressed f8 instead of f6 then after that z won't toggle wireframe. What did f8 do? Ctrl z works but didn't undo what ever f8 ...
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Any methods to show wires in texture paint WHILE face selection masking is enabled?
Strangely, wires are not drawn on the masked selection (yes, the very selection you've masked off and are trying to paint). Does anyone have a reasonable workaround for this behavior?
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Possible bug when when using empty as image?
I'm using empty as image for set up of blueprints for car modeling. When I toggle between solid and wireframe in the viewport the images strange things happens with the images! Please look at the ...
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How to create a wireframe / outline
The user in the screenshot below has used blender to make the wireframe and effect. Can you tell me which tools and plugins he used?
