En:Wireframe rendering

Aus CINEMA 4D Wiki

What is a Wireframe?

Wireframe displays a mesh with fine lines at the edges instead of solid surfaces.

How to render Wireframe

By default it is NOT possible to render any mesh in wireframe. There are a few external shaders able to generate a wireframe-texture but not on the original lines of the mesh, it is just approximate.

If you want your mesh displayed and rendered in Wireframe you have to use a workaround. With your mesh selected press the "Alt"-button, got to the Menu "Object->Modeling->Atom Array" or click on the Atom-Array-symbol. Pressing the "Alt"-button while creating the Atom Array will drop your mesh as child of the Atom Array. Next you have to reduce the Atom Arrays "Sphere Radius" to a value less or equal "1" for best efforts. As you can see, your mesh turns into a wireframed mesh. Hit the renderbutton and you will see finelined edges.

If you want you can give the Atom Array a pastel-colored material.

If you want the wireframe "shading" your mesh's surface, you have to "CTRL"-Drag your mesh out of the Atom Array and you will get a smooth-shaded mesh with wireframes on top.

Additional Links

A 2D shader plug-in for Cinema 6.103 an up can be found here at Plugin Café