# Rendering wire frame on shaded?
**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/rendering-wire-frame-on-shaded/49252
**Category:** Maya
**Tags:** rendering-lighting
**Created:** [May 13, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/rendering-wire-frame-on-shaded/49252 "2010-05-13T16:13:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@johngriz](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/johngriz)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/rendering-wire-frame-on-shaded/49252/1 "2010-05-13T16:13:03Z")
I'm putting together a modeling reel in Maya 2008 and I would like to be able to show my wireframe outlines ( shading\>wire frame on shaded ). I have wire -frame -on- shaded selected in the viewing port but the lines aren't there when I render it out.
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### Author:  [@joojaa](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/joojaa)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/rendering-wire-frame-on-shaded/49252/2 "2010-05-13T18:52:16Z")
Enable outline rendering in mentalray
1. ssign yoru material sg a outline by chekkinge enable contour rendering
2. render globals set the contour rendering and draw by property difference to to finding to, around shiluette, around poly faces, and front vs backfaces. Dsable all contrasts.
Render. Pretty basic stuff really its even in the manual
> > lines aren't there when I render it out
Maya is not a wysiwyg software. Maya is WYCGTSSISNNWYCG (What You Can Get To See See Is Nowhere Near What You Could Get) softwate, which by the way is even better.