Ah this is brilliant. Thankyou so much!

Andy

Ditto. Great looking renders. Thanks for the patch. I have modo 501 so have installed the patch.

Cheers
Nigel / 3DKiwi

Wow! Really cool models and rendering!

Another bit of information for those wanting to render the countours in Lightwave. In modeler there is a parts to surface command. If you run this on the model, you can then turn on surface borders in Layout and it will render nice edges along those borders.

They look like "MoI' renders after a little ground shadow and reflection additions... !!!! :o

Just had to try it myself. :) Certainly better then the previous workflow I had for rendering curves in Modo.

Looks great Andy!

Did you also generate the image at a larger initial size and then downscale it?

- Michael

No I didn't, this was the actual size of the render. I did increase the edge width from 1 px to 2px, and I wonder if that helps smooth out the antialiasing on the lines.

Very cool stuff in this thread, well done guys.

Cheers

Thanks for the new functionality Michael, and thanks to Paq for testing, (and I suspect suggesting).

I did some experimenting with this and found that if you have a solid object the whole object will be
outlined, as in the background object. If you want all parts outlined as in the foreground object then
you just need to use Edit - Separate in Moi before exporting to LWO.

Hi danperk - actually you're supposed to be able to keep it together as a solid when you export.

Do you notice any difference if you export with welding turned on or off?

Are you doing this in Modo or LightWave?

Also do you have the contour mode set to "segment boundaries" and not the other "surfaces" option for it?

- Michael

Hi Michael,

I tried with welding on & off.(normally on)

This is done in Modo.

I'm using segment boundaries.

The 3DM file is attached.

Hi danperk, hmmm well the part labels seem to be generated ok when your object is exported as a solid - it generates 49 different part labels and there are 49 different surfaces in your model...

Do the part assignments seem to be correct when exported as a solid? I mean if you go into the Statistics pane in Modo you should see a "Part" category with 49 different entries under it. If you select some of those does a small portion of the mesh corresponding to one of the original surfaces get selected?

- Michael

Remember you have to convert the modo mesh to static mesh before this will work.

I tried your file and it worked perfectly exported as a welded mesh and converted to static mesh in Modo.

Very strange.

>>Do the part assignments seem to be correct when exported as a solid? I mean if you go into the Statistics pane in Modo you should see a "Part" category with 49 different entries under it. If you select some of those does a small portion of the mesh corresponding to one of the original surfaces get selected?<<

I see 1 object in Modo, unless I use separate in Moi. Attached image of my export settings.





SteveMacc said: >>Remember you have to convert the modo mesh to static mesh before this will work.<<

Yes, it's a static mesh, not in the image capture, but I do that step.

Here's my LWO I/O settings in Modo:

Hi danperk,

Parts should be visible in the statistic, under POLYGON > PART

If parts are visible, then every should work fine :

Turn the mesh into static mesh (seems that's what you have allready done)
Turn the contours on, using the Segment Boundaries method (and not Surfaces Boundaries).

If it still dont work, could you post the .lxo scene ?

Hi PaQ,

Nothing in statistics. Even though the mesh is converted to a static mesh it still
shows as an ordinary mesh. (maybe 501 bug!?)




Attached Zip file contains the exported LWO file and a LXO file.


The only thing I have done with my Moi set-up that my be non-standard is that I'm running my Moi.ini file from previous Moi beta 2 versions.

Hi danperk,

Well there is something wrong with the MoI export, the .lwo you provide do not contain the part slicing.

So either the patch didn't work, or the moi.ini dont contain the :

[LWO]
WritePartTags=y

We have to wait Michael advice on this one.

FYI here a .lwo export from the .3dm you provided.

You should be able to render contour from this file in 501.

Thanks for checking the file PaQ!
Your file works fine for me, I can see the parts list and it looks fine
and the file you exported renders correctly.

Well the entry is in the Moi.ini file:



When I ran the update.cmd file I didn't see any error messages.

Michael, does the update.cmd create a log file?