huntch3 Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 Hey I recently came across this plugin render called Finaltoon R2, which is used for rendering just lines...it looks amazing..but is really expensive ofcourse..has anyone used this or heard of it...I think it would be a useful tool to produce some interesting arch. diagrams/perspectives.... http://www.finalrender.com/products/products.php?UD=10-7888-35-788&PID=37 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dollus Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 It has been around for quite some time but, honestly, most main rendering packages have incorporated much of the same functionality by now. For instance, the engine, greyscale robot and lego truck they show in the link you included are easily achieved with both MentalRay and Vray at this point. on the other hand, the color image of the android cutaway is a more stylized approach, a perfect example of where FR shines and would be pretty tough to do without some additional compositing software using the other programs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntch3 Posted March 13, 2009 Author Share Posted March 13, 2009 I see ....well, I was trying to get some perspectives of my 3dsmax model, just showing clean black and white lines...I was able to acheive close to what i want with mental ray, but the outlines are not shown for some of the geometry unfortunately...any suggestions>>? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dollus Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 Can you post an image? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntch3 Posted March 13, 2009 Author Share Posted March 13, 2009 Ok..here are 3 images of what I'm trying to do...the first are 2 screen caps of the scene...and the second is a vray rendering...Im just trying to get clean black and white line perspectives from this model...thanks for your help... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dollus Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 okay, in vray - 1. turn off camera exposure 2. create a vrayLightMtl in the material editor and drag this into your Material Overide in the vray render settings 3. under rendering pulldown, open up environment and effects and add a VrayToon Effect. 4. render PS make sure your image sampling is set to a min of positive 1 or you will get gaps in lines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntch3 Posted March 14, 2009 Author Share Posted March 14, 2009 Thanks for your help! unfortunately I don't have vray yet..but I can get it soon.........Is there any chance that something like this (the attachment) can be acheived with mental ray??? thanks again.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dollus Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 sure - took it from your post you had vray. in Mental Ray, try this - in the material editor, use a plain jane MR material type, under the advanced shaders section, add a Simple (contour) map type in the Contour slot (see contour material.jpg attached) in the render settings, under renderer tab, enable Contours and add the following: contour contrast ->contour contrast function levels contour store -> contour store function Contour output ->contour only That should do it - make sure to turn off exposure control Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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