Comments on: Video Tutorial/Script: Rendering Wireframe Overlays

By: radialronnie

radialronnie — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:33:54 +0000

all three links are dead :(

By: Kernon

Kernon — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:36:12 +0000

@tommy5:
I was going to say you were wrong but, I checked the file and you're right about the audio. Ooop! This is an "older" video and I was still learning (still am) about that. More recent videos use the mp3 audio format with tweaked bitrates, etc.

When I get a chance, I'll re-render this one with a better audio format. I'll check the others as well. Thanks for pointing that out!

By: tommy5

tommy5 — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:31:27 +0000

Tnx for the tutorial!

It would be great if u compress audio data in tutorials, it will be much smaller size and more people would see it.
This one - 90MB/36MB zip - u can compress in few minutes using virtualdub/lame to 30MB/22MB zip.

Size does matter:)

By: Alex Fraser

Alex Fraser — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:53:18 +0000

Cool, I've wondered about Z offsets too.

It'd be nice if the Wire option was moved out of the Render Pipeline section and into the Material. That way you could mix a solid material with a wireframe one in the node editor. I imagine it can still be done with composite nodes, but that would be more complicated.

By: Rob W

Rob W — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:45:17 +0000

I've tried the script and it works well, except that it looks like it creates a lot of extra geometry just for the sake of the overlay. Maybe a feature like this with a simple toggle switch (wireframe on/off) should be added in a future Blender version? (But without having to add geometry?) The Blender Newbies article mentions that this tutorial is inspired by such a feature in other 3D apps. Thanks to the devs, Blender is on par with most of them for more advanced features, so I would think adding this feature would be fairly trivial.

By: Albrecht Jacobs (LayBack)

Albrecht Jacobs (LayBack) — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:41:14 +0000

Great tutorial! I always wondered what the ZOffset was good for -:)

A minor improvement: link the 'solid' material to the object, not the mesh. When you copy the object use 'duplicate linked' (ALT D) instead of 'duplicate' (SHIFT D). Link the 'wire' material to the new object. Now you can edit the 'solid' object and don't have to worry about the 'wire' object — it's always the same!

By: SephirothTBM

SephirothTBM — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 03:48:24 +0000

Hey thanks for the script.

jaime: si te refieres a blender te recomiendo que visites http://blender.guanajuato.net es una comunidad de blender en español.

By: Kernon

Kernon — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:53:30 +0000

Hey, that's an awesome script! It's an automated version of what my video shows.

Also, after creating the wireframe overlay, you can adjust the thickness of the lines by selecting the wireframe object and adjusting the shader's Alpha value.

By: criss

criss — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:42:24 +0000

Thanks a lot, a VERY useful tutorial!

By: jaime

jaime — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:27:22 +0000

quiero saber mas de este programa