Render effect – can u help? Moved from Maya and struggling.

[Matthew Cooper]

Here’s a pic (if I get the link to work!)

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[Matthew Cooper]

K, so it’s the X-ray effect in the viewport. I guess the question is, how can I replicate this in the render?

Ill be quiet now… 🙂

Thanks
Matt.

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[Adam Trachtenberg]

I don’t think that there’s any way to do it directly in Cinema, without a plugin. Arndt, one of the forum leaders here, had a shader plugin that did exactly what you want, but I don’t see it listed on his site. You could contact him about it.

Otherwise you could do it by rendering the object separately and doing the transparency in post.

[Lennart Wåhlin]

Add a Compositing Tag to the object.
In the “Exclusion” tab drag the object itself into it.
Then check the first “arrow thru line” symbol in there
and it’s all fine 🙂

Cheers
Lennart

aka tcastudios

[Matthew Cooper]

Thanks Lennart, it almost works!

If the background is black it works very well. However, as this is a medical animation the scene is white.

When I render it out it shows nothing (unless I put an object behind the brain and then it’s visible.

pics attached should hopefully make sense. Any further suggestions?

Im currently looking into the ‘Environment Object’ as on option to replace my large white sphere with 100 illumination (this forms my scenery in which my models are placed) and may be causing the problem?

Many thanks, Matt.

pic #2

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[Adam Trachtenberg]

Strange — it works fine here.

[Matthew Cooper]

Hi Lennart,

Thanks for the info. After some more tinkering with exclusion of various objects (and changing the luminosity settings of my backdrop) I finally achieved the effect I was looking for (pic below). Many Thanks!

Thanks Adam for confirming it works too, that kept me from straying off the path!

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