3DS Max Render Wireframe and other Questions

PhantomCrash

Hello everyone, I have been using Max for almost a year now and have been able to do most of my trouble shooting through Google, however now I think I have reached the limit of what Google search can do for me. I would like to use this thread to ask general questions about Max that, when answered, will hopefully help other members in the community.

That being said, what is the best method for rendering a wire frame animation in Max? I only want to see the wires on the camera facing surfaces of the model. The only solution I have found for this is to duplicate your model and offset it back in space to hide the back faces. However for a turntable render this is useless and for a large scene it is beyond tedious. Surely there is a better way. Can anyone help?

SimonT

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBH_KJ8kXJ4"]3ds max Wireframe rendering - YouTube[/ame]

PhantomCrash

Wow this looks perfect, I will have to try this out in a bit and let you know how it works. In the meantime, does anyone know any good tuts for batch rendering multiple custom passes? I really like the render layers in Maya but so far in Max I just end up using multiple files and manually rendering.

Thanks again for the great tut Simon!

PhantomCrash

Yea I was wondering if that would be the best bet for a Max pipeline. Do you know where I could find some good documentation that will get me going on that fast?

PhantomCrash

Hey everyone got a quick Maya question. I am working on rendering a hi resolution steel cable and I am wanting to use a Displacement to create the smaller strands on each chord of the cable. My question is if there are any other Materials that are compatible with displacement maps other than Maya Shaders? Are there any work arounds for this like using a layered shaded?

If anyone can point me to some better information on this I would really appreciate it. I will be seeing what I can come up with until then.