Hi, those are raster screenshots straight from Moi under the vector lines!

I take them at Hi-res (removing the edges visibility) and crop a transparent background in photoshop

The lightning tweaks in Moi are often enough to get the effect I need.

Marc

This is a long thread. I don't know if anyone has mentioned Swift3D. It's for 3D to Flash conversion but I has EPS/AI export too.

Hello,

I tried Swift3D a while ago. It seems the output is not too exact and does segmenting on curves, although it looks pretty good if you want to do Flash animations.

To translate subdivision models to vector curves is surprisingly hard to do.
I've spend some time searching for a software that would do this, but did'nt find anything either, all vector outputs are segmented polygons.

Maybe I haven't dig enough though, there must be something...

That's one of the reasons I like Nurbs so much!


I found two workaround solutions,

-Convert the Sudb model nurbs and extract curve data (with T-spline for example).
-Using a cel material, then trace the bitmap render output to vector (with vectormagic or something similar).


Marc

Hi Marc, yeah it's pretty common for polygon sub-d modeling programs to kind of treat sub-d surfaces as just a way to take some polygons and generate more polygons, rather than actually focusing on dealing on the actual smooth "limit surface" itself...

- Michael

I've done a quick copy of your plug and a video of how to get better results with ViaCAD v7 for this task. It's not perfect, but it might help you along a bit if you can't find something better at a reasonable price.
I've attached an Illustrator and a DXF file of the plug for you to look at.

Martin.

http://screencast.com/t/VmxGbV6lVI

To get this so called two-line-weight renderings I currently use Cinema4D and Sketch & Toon. To get the thick outline rendered properly all individual objects of the plug must be connected in C4D. I attached a sample rendering. If I somehow could download the plug model I could post this too.

Although C4D + S&T works very well I would prefer a direct workflow from MoI to Adobe Illustrator that would give me the same result without much work. Especially because the illustration would remain in vector format. It would help a lot if MoI (optionally) didn't export hidden lines to the .ai format.