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.
![2453083151_d81cf1946b.jpg](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2058/2453083151_d81cf1946b.jpg)
The following image is a parallel view technique with the camera adjusted to an isometric angle:
![2453083113_7df8c8b875.jpg](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3032/2453083113_7df8c8b875.jpg)
As you can see, hidden line and intersect are behaving badly.
The following is a standard parallel shot, Intersect & Outline are not working:
![2453083195_492f6e5294.jpg](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2453083195_492f6e5294.jpg)
Isometric camera. As you can see, intersect isn't working:
![2453910584_78756f83ca.jpg](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3152/2453910584_78756f83ca.jpg)
Perspective telephoto, objects miniaturized, iso camera view angle:
![2455642457_3e0e0bdfe4.jpg](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3127/2455642457_3e0e0bdfe4.jpg)
And finally Perspective with everything working fine:
![2453910648_ccf84aa522.jpg](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2001/2453910648_ccf84aa522.jpg)
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.