Questions tagged [freestyle]
An edge and line-based non-photorealistic (NPR) rendering engine. Available in Blender since version 2.67. Use this tag for all of your Freestyle related questions.
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Scientific Illustration: Non-photorealistic rendering of sparse wireframe with dashed/dotted lines for backfacing areas - Blender 2.80
I'm interested in creating a material that gives this end result:
I'm studying the possibility to use Blender as a tool for scientific education in pure mathematics.
The idea is that the material ...
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How to exclude an object from Freestyle render?
The question is how can I exclude an object from the freestyle render?
What I need to do is create a Clay render with the wire only on the airplane.
My scene is simple I only have two objects the "...
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How can I improve the realism of my pencil texture lines in freestyle?
I'm using a charcoal image texture to make my cycles freestyle lines look as though they were drawn by hand with a pencil. My inspiration (and the source of the charcoal image texture) was the teapot ...
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Why do freestyle outlines occasionally have gaps?
Sometimes freestyle renders will have gaps in the lines:
Closer up:
What causes this and how can I prevent it?
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Freestyle Lines on Wrong Frames [duplicate]
Basically the character is posed and rendered with various props. At random, suddenly, the lines are "sticking" among multiple frames despite the fact that the object has been moved.
What could be ...
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How to draw line between intersecting meshes in Freestyle?
Is it possible to draw a line between intersecting objects? With my current setup, it won't draw anything between them.
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How to render a pixelated, occluded wireframe with freestyle?
I'd like to combine these features:
The pixelated look of a wire material with anti-aliasing disabled.
Proper occlusion of hidden lines.
A wireframe material produces the first feature, freestyle ...
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Freestyle depth of field
I am using Freestyle on a Cycles scene with some depth of field. The Freestyle doesn't get affected by the depth of field, and so pops out too much on objects that aren't in focus. I am looking for ...
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How can I start using Freestyle?
Blender 2.67 is out, and one of its main features is the long-awaited Freestyle integration.
I'd like to try out Freestyle, but it doesn't appear in the "Render Engine" dropdown. I assume some ...
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How to make freestyle lines stay the same size?
Is it possible to make freestyle lines stay the same width relative to the distance from the camera?
The way free style lines behave by default, they stay the same width in pixels, but vary relative ...
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How to have freestyle render change to outline only at a distance
I've been playing with making coloring pages from some low-poly models of mine. To give my coloring pages variety without too much work on my part, I created a scene, populated it with all the models, ...
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Adjusting Freestyle in the Blender compositor
Can anyone tell me if it's possible to adjust freestyle in the compositor?
I'm using it in my short film and its a drag to actually render the whole thing every time to see the changes I made.
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How do you add a thin outline?
I am new at this. I am extracting files from a game. In the game they have thin black outlines, but they aren't part of a model. I am having trouble finding anything about this. What is the simplest ...
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How can I speed up Freestyle rendering?
I'm rendering shapes in Freestyle. Nothing fancy (think flowerpots). I want a white object and white background, and of course black Freestyle outlines. No textures.
It's working fine, but I ...
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How to set distance of Freestyle line rendering?
I would like to have thicker lines near camera and a lot of thinner in some range of distance from camera.
How can I achive this?
I tried 'Distance from camera' modifier (I tested all settings. ...