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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Hide wireframe in edit mode
I am editing a very dense mesh. It looks great when viewed as solid faces, but it's just a black blob when viewed as wireframe because there are so many vertices.
When I switch to edit mode to select ...
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Wireframe thickness like sketchup and color without rendering
Is there a way to change wireframe color and thicknes on 3d objects without rendering them?
The default wireframe appear is only one pixel, so I would like to increase it and also change color. If ...
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How to display all mesh wire in flats faces?
I want to display all wire in a mesh, but if the edges are in a flat face that are not shown... Here's a little example:
Do you know how to do that?
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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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Wireframe only when rendered
When I render my model I get this:
But I want it to look like a rendered version of this:
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How can I make a 3D wireframe object hollow?
For instance, if I want to make a wireframe snowman out of three spheres, I would like to trim the spheres so that only the outermost surfaces are shown. That is, if sphere 1 and sphere 2 overlap, I'd ...
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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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Can the 3D viewport be set to draw smooth (anti-aliased) wireframe?
When I create mesh etc the wireframe looks so jagged. Coming from other applications I've used, most of them seem to have smooth wireframe (Maya to name one).
Are smooth wireframes possible in ...
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Change objects to soild view [duplicate]
When I download some files from blendswap they look like this.
I want the silver/gray solid view.
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Set wireframe only view
In this tutorial, the author says to set the view to wireframe at 10:08.
In blender 2.7, the menu looks slightly different. When I set to 'wireframe' I do not see the same results.
How can I ...
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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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Is there a way to display the geometry of the Subd. surf. modifier together with the original geometry?
Is there a way to display the geometry of the Subdivision surface modifier together with the original geometry in solid view in edit mode? Lets assume that the image below is a screenshot from that ...
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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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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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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 to create a material that is part solid, part transparent wireframe? [duplicate]
For a 3D rendering of an organ, I would like to make part of it a transparent wireframe so the contents become visible (similar to this image, only I would like to have a much smaller area as the ...
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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 to make a render with a curved along with straight wireframe in cycles? [closed]
How to make a render with a curved along with a straight wireframe in cycles?
Curved - The original geometry;
Straight - The wires the are created by the subdivision surface;
I figured how to do ...
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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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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 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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Draw type stuck on wireframe and no model when rendered
My draw type is not on wireframe but all I see is this:
What can I do to fix this?
Version 2.49b
edit: Link as requested
https://www.mediafire.com/?u93956gqgss45pk
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Displaying the wireframe of a beveled Bezier curve [duplicate]
I'm following a tutorial in which a Bezier curve is supposed to represent a vine. The vine is a collection of control points with their bevel depth and bevel resolution set appropriately:
However, ...
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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?
Maybe with ...
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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.
You ...
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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 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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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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