Problems with C4D's isometric output:
polycounter lvl 19
OK I've been doing some tests with Sketch and Toon for Cinema 4D R10 and how well it outputs to Illustrator and Flash, checking for the following; Intersect, hiddenline, crease, fold, border, outline.
Here is the base scene file where we have one object intersecting, some creases, some folds. There are 3 materials; 2px thick out line, 1px intersect and fold, 1px dotted for crease. Giving us a standard technical drawing palette.
The following image is a parallel view technique with the camera adjusted to an isometric angle:
As you can see, hidden line and intersect are behaving badly.
The following is a standard parallel shot, Intersect & Outline are not working:
Isometric camera. As you can see, intersect isn't working:
Perspective telephoto, objects miniaturized, iso camera view angle:
And finally Perspective with everything working fine:
So understanding the standard viewport render limitations, I move on to exporting to vectors (invaluable to illustrators and architects), or web animation formats like flash. Exported using export to illustrator and Flash Ex2 render built into C4D:
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Here is the base scene file where we have one object intersecting, some creases, some folds. There are 3 materials; 2px thick out line, 1px intersect and fold, 1px dotted for crease. Giving us a standard technical drawing palette.
The following image is a parallel view technique with the camera adjusted to an isometric angle:
As you can see, hidden line and intersect are behaving badly.
The following is a standard parallel shot, Intersect & Outline are not working:
Isometric camera. As you can see, intersect isn't working:
Perspective telephoto, objects miniaturized, iso camera view angle:
And finally Perspective with everything working fine:
So understanding the standard viewport render limitations, I move on to exporting to vectors (invaluable to illustrators and architects), or web animation formats like flash. Exported using export to illustrator and Flash Ex2 render built into C4D:
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Replies
Illustrator / flash:
Parallel:
Isometric:
telephoto perspective:
Persepctive:
perhaps not exactly related but I wanted to create once pixel perfect e-boy style renderings in 3dsmax and got issues as well:
anyway those tests brought me eventually to finalToon
http://cebas.com/products/products.php?UD=10-7888-33-788&PID=37
though I haven´t tested it out myself the features are impressive - way more advanced than RAVIX (swift3d), illustrate or the other more common toon renders.
esspecially this particular gallery item:
http://cebas.com/products/link.php?TID=:Virgin%20Lands&LID=/products/images/finaltoon/gallery/hermle-airbrushoptik.jpg
implies that orthographic projection is no problem.