[mikhael]

That took over an hour and a half to render just the one frame.  20k polys + fresnel effects == TEH LOES.

[Alikchi]

YOU AM WIN.

I like.

[vadar_1]

... and sometimes you can

LIUFE AS SUPAR!

errr... i mean...

That is a very nice ... whatever it is.

[Knight Templar]

Its a Borg Wireframed Mjolnir silly.

[Stryke 9]

Dudealicious. That Mjolnir rocks, and wireframes always rock.

Originally posted by mikhael
That took over an hour and a half to render just the one frame.  20k polys + fresnel effects == TEH LOES.

Now this, I don't get. Wireframes are supposed to take LESS time.

[HeX]

Not nessessarily as you are rendering all the verticies that you would normally not have to render as they normally would be hidden out of sight.

[Stryke 9]

But you're not rendering textures, effects, complex light setups, or anything else, which between them free up more than enough space to compensate several times over. I guess he's got some kinda special light thing in there, but STILL...

[Galemp]

Where's the Fresnel lens? Everybody likes Fresnel lenses.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
But you're not rendering textures, effects, complex light setups, or anything else, which between them free up more than enough space to compensate several times over. I guess he's got some kinda special light thing in there, but STILL...

Well its not really wireframe. Its a fresnel shader.

You're looking at a solid mesh with a shader effect that highlights edges. It gives a great glowing wireframe effect, but all the transparency slows it down immensely. The material I used for the normal display shots I did in the other thread only took 45s each to render with the exact same lighting setup. As HeX pointed out, with a transparency shader, you can't do any poly culling prior to rendering.

[mikhael]

I've updated this image to reflect the latest geoemtry. 222k of fresnel shader love.

[Kamikaze]

Wow..... <--- best word to describe

What program(s) did you use to construct/render that?

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Kamikaze
Wow..... <--- best word to describe

What program(s) did you use to construct/render that?

Pure Lightwave 6

[HeX]

I...want....LIGHTWAVE

[mikhael]

Originally posted by HeX
I...want....LIGHTWAVE

You can do this effect in pretty much every professional 3d package on the planet. Even if you don't have a fresnel shader, you can use careful gradients on your transparency, translucency, reflection and refraction channels to do the same thing.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Where the hell is that dropjaw smilie when you need it? Anyway, this will have to do.

[Stealth]

that's very nice... now let's see a real model

i like it a lot though
very nice!

[Warlock]

Originally posted by Stealth
that's very nice... now let's see a real model

i like it a lot though
very nice!

It's right here

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Warlock


It's right here

i knew that

thanks

[Anaz]

Originally posted by mikhael


You can do this effect in pretty much every professional 3d package on the planet. Even if you don't have a fresnel shader, you can use careful gradients on your transparency, translucency, reflection and refraction channels to do the same thing.

I still wanna know how to do wireframe renders with truespace....

[Warlock]

It's in the rendering options...been so long since I've used truespace I can't recall where exactly,...but i know you can.