Rendering good blueprint out of your models ?

another caveman

Hey there guys !

Do you know a way to get clear - good blue prints out of your models, without rendering a wireframe and painting the frames you need over it in photoshop I mean.

This is my example as an expected result. -- same strokes, ability to choose perspective etc.

Thank you,

Adrian

kodde

I'm a Maya user so naturally I'm thinking Maya ways. I'd probably go with Maya Vector renderer and use Silhouette + Hard/Soft edges to define inner strokes. The exploded layout I would probably have to do myself manually I guess. Unless someone made a fancy script for this.

musashidan

This would obviously depend on the renderer you are using. Many renderers now have good solutions for engineering/schematic output. As Kodde said, manually arranging the elements would give you the greatest control for the exploded view, or you could use  the Xpose function in Zbrush to get a starting point.(But again, you havn't stated what software you're using)

another caveman

Forgot to mention it, I am going to move the elements myself, I doubt any script can do it and yes I need the control

About the software, I work with both maya and 3ds max so I'll prolly try your Maya way, vector renderer or the Silhouette thing

kodde

I played around a bit with the Toon Outline as well. Works pretty good. Has more settings than the old Maya Vector renderer.
Also there's outline shaders for Mental Ray as well.

kodde

another caveman

Thanks dude, that's exactly what I was looking for.

oglu

vray toon...

Prime8

If you don't shy from an additional program and some export/import pain, you can try Blender freestyle as well.

Panupat

Can vray toon do line arts now? Last I used it only do cell shaded without lines

oglu

its doing outlined since ever.... vray toon is not a shader... its separat global option...