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[pilou]

You give up your favorite render(s) ?

[Dave R]

Not yet.

[Glenn at home]

Very nice Dave. Are the dashed lines done in post production (photoshop)?

[Dave R]

Thank you sir. The dashed lines were created in SketchUp and an image export was laid over the rendered image in the image editor.

[Glenn at home]

Ah, clever solution sir

[Dave R]

Thank you. It's actually quite simple and quick to do. In this case, because I wanted the dashed lines to be white due to the dark background, I inverted the colors in the image (only black and white for this) and then set the layer blend mode to Additive. Most often when I want to use linework from SU with a render the line work image has a white background and I use Multiply for the blend mode.

[Bryan K]

Very nice!

[ntxdave]

DaveR, Could you also use the dashed line tool in TIG's 2D Tools and set the color to white which would save some steps (maybe). Just a thought.......

[Dave R]

I suppose you could do that however I don't know that the rendered 2D faces would look that good. It's really such a simple thing to combine images that it is easy enough to do what I do. And if I don't want to show certain lines, I can deal with them more easily that trying to paint something out in a rendered image.

[ntxdave]

Understand, as I aid, just a thought. I have used it in images that I rendered and it worked well even though other edges did not show,

BTW; your render looks great to me.

[Dave R]

Thank you.