Edge lines

I thought it should have its own thread since its a question on its own different of the other 2 i've asked.

I was wondering if you were going to get out an update on your edge line fonction giving us a choise of colors when rendering our model with edge lines on.

What i'm experiencing on my renders is having a great image but the black of edges lines having just a tad too much of an impact on the final result.

I know just getting a bigger size does help but since we don't actually have the dpi option (or didn't see it anyway) I actually have to make the render 5 times bigger just so closer edge lines don't make a larger line on the result and then convert it on a smaller size with higher dpi.

Its just an ides I had thinking up on the last week or so.

Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Simon Loisel-Goudreau on March 23, 2011 at 11:51am

I Actually found out what the problem was just by coincidence and by looking at the foreground line images.

The problem was the bos formed by 1 type of foliage (which I don't know where it comes from since it was originally not my file) that blocks the lines made by the foreground rendering.

Added the 3 images supporting my point

- rendered image

- foreground lines

- rendered scene

I was wondering, I will get new foliage for the model but any ideas why it actually did this?

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on March 23, 2011 at 12:10pm

No. Do we have that model, with that foliage?

Or could you post, or send us, a small sample model with some of that foliage in it?

Simon Loisel-Goudreau said:

I Actually found out what the problem was just by coincidence and by looking at the foreground line images.

The problem was the bos formed by 1 type of foliage (which I don't know where it comes from since it was originally not my file) that blocks the lines made by the foreground rendering.

Added the 3 images supporting my point

- rendered image

- foreground lines

- rendered scene

I was wondering, I will get new foliage for the model but any ideas why it actually did this?

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Permalink Reply by Simon Loisel-Goudreau on March 23, 2011 at 1:02pm

No, its actually not your model.

I had the .skp file from the technician that was working for us from another compagny.

I don't think he was working with Irender NXT.

And so, didn't know about his foliage problem.

And I did sent you the file with the upload tab. You tried it and didn't get the same problem so it might be just a checked option I have misclicked but i'll try with another one.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on March 23, 2011 at 2:57pm

It turned out that the plant material is one that just doesn't work well with the SketchUp Hidden Line display.

We can fix the problem by one of several things. Once we saved and reloaded the texture image for that material and that fixed it. Once we just clicked on Reset Color for the material and that fixed it.

I didn't see any particular pattern to it on a couple of different machines.