Python Script: Set Up a Wire Render

Bart · December 15, 2011

This Python script will help you make clay and wire renders.

liero writes:

A script to setup and apply materials for a wire render… It will replace your own with a clay and a wire materials, as seen here and here.
You can apply settings to all visible or just selected MESHES. Anyway, it’s very easy to use.

works in BI on meshes only

by default it will run over all visible objects, but you can restrict to a selection

script looks for materials by name: rename or make single user to get different wire colors

‘mat_wire’ has a z-offset option than can be used to fine tune wires display

enable ambient occlusion or ‘shadeless’ option to do a fast render without setting up lights

if it fails in default mode try selecting objects and enabling ‘selected meshes’
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BlenderArtists Thread

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

26 responses

StanP

15 December 2011 at 22:43

oh my ! Finally, thanks liero !

Lorembolo Bolo

15 December 2011 at 23:13

many thanks, I was waiting for this for a long time !

Anonymous

15 December 2011 at 23:23

Thanks for that !
In the future, another way which don’t use z offset could be better, but this add-on is great.
Thanks again !

Anonymous

16 December 2011 at 01:13

Yay! I have been waiting for something like this!

Lactose

16 December 2011 at 01:17

Very Useful. Thanks!

MacroManJr

16 December 2011 at 01:31

I was just thinking about this feature yesterday. Thanks!

Lucas Romero Di Benedetto

16 December 2011 at 01:48

Gracias Liero!! buen aporte!

Comeinandburn

16 December 2011 at 02:19

this should be included in trunk! I’ve been waiting for this forever.

Anonymous

16 December 2011 at 02:56

Very cool! Love this :)

Max

16 December 2011 at 03:07

this is really cool script.

thankyou!

double u

16 December 2011 at 05:19

Since this is a very commonly used rendering style… wouldn’t it be useful to have it as a basic render option? I. e. a “render as clay” or “render as wireframe” button, that leaves your scene as is.

MoXX

16 December 2011 at 09:22

This should be in the trunk!

Charly

16 December 2011 at 12:04

Really cool and really smart script. Thanks for that :-)

Seba

16 December 2011 at 16:36

Could you add the links to the pics here in the quote that the original message has? (when it says “as seen here and here”

Kirill Poltavets

16 December 2011 at 17:16

Thanks a lot, Liero!

erick parra

16 December 2011 at 20:46

Thank you !!!! :D

Oscurart

17 December 2011 at 03:27

Grande Liero!

Mick Cruz

17 December 2011 at 10:49

definitely must be in the trunk

Lawrence D’Oliveiro

17 December 2011 at 11:45

I notice you attach your custom properties to Blender’s WindowManager class. I don’t think you should do that; attach them to your own class instead. See my TreadTiler code for an example:

https://github.com/ldo/treadtiler