How do you render wireframe on shaded in max9?

foreverendering

Does anyone know how to do this? For Default Scanline Render


In Maya it was something like Vector Render... Been a long time since I've done that though. There has to be an equivalent for Max... Right?

pior

There might be better techniques now ... But duplicating the object, giving the duplicate some more volume using the 'push' modifer and giving it that one material still works :



Good luck for the final rush!

Mark Dygert

I prefer using the same method pior outline, however there is another method someone posted a few weeks ago.

http://www.jeffpatton.net/Tips/Wire-gradient.jpg

MoP

I usually just do the duplicate + push with wire material method (for lowpoly anyway) but that one Vig linked to seems pretty good too, although it will have the result that larger faces get a "thicker" wire effect.

foreverendering

This is exactly what I was looking for - thanks guys!

Jesse Moody

yeah another duplicate + push and wire frame material here...

seems like the easiest way to do it.

Mark Dygert

They both kind of have their place depending on what point in the project you are.

The box gradient material works nicely while making changes to geometry before it has UV's. Since it doesn't require you to "clone/push/assign wire" each time you make a change. I guess you could easily script the "clone/push/assign wire" but having a material assigned seems to be less of a fuss.

But once UV's have been created, the box gradient material becomes a bit of a nightmare to work with because it requires your UV's be set to box.

I think its worth having the box gradient material in the default max material library.

MoP

Vig: Why not just have a UVW Map modifier sitting on top of your stack with the UV channel on 99 or something, then it doesn't matter what other modelling/UV changes you make below it.

Eric Chadwick

Yet another option, the ColorEdge map.
http://www.itoosoft.com/english/menu.php?id=coloredge