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Getting an outline render using 3dlight script

gibrril_fa945a6ceegibrril_fa945a6cee Posts: 550
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Hi all,

I'm trying to figure out (again) how to get a png render with nothing but outlines out of DAZ studio... I asked before, tried to find the old post, but since the forums got updated, I guess that post was long lost...

Thanks a lot,

Me

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  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,085
    edited September 2015

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/21273/free-geometry-shell-toon-outline-gso-shader-updated-may-19th-2013-additional-bugfix

    My one complaint is that it can make stuff seen edge on filled in black.

    Also I'll point out that the DZ Toon shader (which I believe is part of the basic install) also outlines things. It might be easier to simply use that and, if you don't want the filled parts, erase it in post.

     

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  • gibrril_fa945a6ceegibrril_fa945a6cee Posts: 550

    Thanks for the reply!

    Yet I remember there was a way using scripted 3D Delight to get only the outline and nothing else...

    How was that done again?

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,085

    I think you are right, but I can't remember how it went. Frankly, the geo shell thing is easier, I think.

     

    Here are two examples. The first uses the geoshell shader, the second uses cartoon shader, both with some tweaking of levels.

     

    Wasp Geo.jpg
    2000 x 2000 - 2M
    Wasp Gray.jpg
    2000 x 2000 - 321K
  • gibrril_fa945a6ceegibrril_fa945a6cee Posts: 550

    The thing is, I want that outline png as a layer to put on top of another render of the same pic...

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,085

    Photoshop or Paint.net or whatever should do that fine. Put it as a layer and set it to Multiply... I do that a lot with the more illustrated look I'm going for nowadays.

     

     

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,085

    And here's an example again:

     

    Wasp Draw.jpg
    2000 x 2000 - 816K
  • gibrril_fa945a6ceegibrril_fa945a6cee Posts: 550

    But how do I get the outline pic to render the outline only? And no surfaces? The scripted render did that for me does this geometry shell thing do that to?

     

    Thanks a lot for the help

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,085

    To get just outlines, like my first image, I used the Geo Shell shader and made the underlying surface a simple surface with 100% ambient light (IE: the underlying figure renders as flat white).

     

  • gibrril_fa945a6ceegibrril_fa945a6cee Posts: 550

    Hi,

     

    sorry for the delay in reply... The shader is no longer available... The dropbox link does not work...

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,085

    I'm a goof, sorry, got wrong link from the wrong thread. Try:
    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12960659/Daz3DWork/Freebies/TNP_GeoShellOutline_FreebieShader.zip

     

  • ScavengerScavenger Posts: 2,674
    timmins.william said:

    To get just outlines, like my first image, I used the Geo Shell shader and made the underlying surface a simple surface with 100% ambient light (IE: the underlying figure renders as flat white).

     

    Could you expand this description a bit (maybe with screen shots?) It sounds very interesting...

  • ScavengerScavenger Posts: 2,674

    Ah.. so this is where the mysterious file I just found on my commputer is from....and I see m question was not answered :(

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,085

    Oh, sorry, lost track of the thread last year. ;)

    Basically make all surfaces ambient white 100%. This means everything looks white and the only thing that's going to appear is the geoshell outline thing. However, having experimented a lot since then, I think a much easier approach is simply to add an Ambient light, turn off ambient occlusion, and just amp it up until everything is white. I don't even think you need to do anything to the surfaces, they'll all flood white. I think.

     

     

     

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