Style help

[marked001]

This may exist or it may be impossible, but anyone know if its possible to make a style that fades out the materials, but preserves the linework?? I made this one with just a white watermark but it also fades out the lines. Thanks.

[Dave R]

You can't really do that in a single style. Instead export and image with the faded style or whatever you want to do without the lines displayed. Then do a simple Hidden Line export with white background and no shadows. Combine them in an image editor. Put the lines image on a layer above the other and set that layer to Multiply. I do similar things very frequently.

Here's an example in which I made the faces only export with fog turned on but the Hidden Line export without fog.

[marked001]

Thanks Dave, that's my go to method as well. I'm trying to learn layout and having issues layering viewports. I think I might just update the textures and fade them manually. Thanks for the input!

[Dave R]

You're welcome. What sort of difficulty are you having with layering viewports?

[marked001]

Trying to overlay line work over top of a textured viewport, i have to make it a vector, right? When I do this on my elevations there seems to be an issue and 90% of the lines disappear.

[Dave R]

That's weird. I wonder what's going on with the lines disappearing.

Yes, in order to see the textures underneath you would need to render the Hidden Line viewport as Vector.

[marked001]

Thanks for confirming that.

I've come across a few people with similar problems. There's a lot of lines so I'm guessing its information overload. Thanks for chiming in. I'm going to edit the textures, might end up simpler anyway. Less viewports.

[Dave R]

Good luck with it.