I bet this is easier then I think

[cyphre]

I need to render out high quality wireframes. Theres got to be a way. I probably sound studip but this has never come up for me before. So my question is how do I render out high quality wireframes of my models? Oh yeah and is there a way to render out not only the wireframes but also if I need to render out just the surface Isoparms? Probably the same way but just incase it isn't I thought I should know that one too. Thanks
Cyphre

[warpcat]

Maybe there's a more obvious way, but if they're NURBS objects you could simply make a 2D grid texture and apply that to your object. Just tweak the values and colors so it looks like the wireframe. Make sure "fix texture warp" is turned off in the objects attribute editor so the texture will assume a closer proximity to the parametrazation of the object. Maybe work, maybe not?

[carmine-1]

easier than a grid texture...
hardware render it...it will be antialiased and motionblurred if you desire.

[warpcat]

Hey goooooood idea

[cyphre]

Yeah I had thought about that but I was hoping for the exact mesh on it. I know I can do a playblast and save the images. that would give me a exact detail of the nubs isoparms. but then again the quality wouldn't be the best. ANyways, the nurb one isn't as imoprtant as finding out a way to be able to render out just the mesh of the object. Any clues on that?
Cyphre

[maos52]

Playblast computes according to your screenres so the one way I can think of to get high res images of the wires is setting your screenres to 1600*1200 if you can (display colors and hertz (16bit/60hz) wouldn't matter right?).
Hope this helps, Maos.

[warpcat]

Actually, you can get Playblast to use the exact rez of your render globals. Turn on Resolution gate for your camera, open the camrea properites in the Attribute editor and turn the overscan from 2 (the default) to 1. Then change the Gate from horizontal to vertical aspect if you need to so the entire Gate box appears in your perspective view (sometimes if the wrong aspect is set, you won't be able to see the entire gate). Make sure in your playblast options the resolution is set to "render globals". Now you can specify exactly what rez you want your playblasts to be.

[yuanyuan]

Hold on a sec... Why won't Hardware rendering work like mentioned before. If you turn Wireframe on for Drawing Style under The Hardware rendering attributes it will render beautiful, perfect replications of your Nurb Isoparms or your tesselated Polys. Set your resolution for however much you want (also under Hardware Render Attributes). Turn on Line Smoothing and Full Image Resolution. Try it.

[warpcat]

I wasn't saying Hardware rendering won't work, I think it's a good idea. I was just stating how you can get a playblast to render at the rez you want (which I realize wasn't the point of this thread). FYI, I found this mel script on Dirk Bialluch's home page (great page by the way), looks like another good option for rendering a wireframe in software:
http://dirk-bialluch.mayaring.com/mel/html...reateWire.shtml