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Re: My attempts to get a vector line drawing
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Tue, 24 May 2011 01:32:59 GMT
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The “Show Edges Only” feature in LDView is intended to be used with Wireframe disabled. I believe it does exactly what you want in combination with “Black Edges”:



Note that the image above was saved with the “Transparent Background” check box checked (only available for PNG snapshots). The actual background color underneath the transparency is actually a blue color, since that’s what I had set at the time I saved the snapshot. However, you can set the background color to any color, and it will work. This can create artifacts if antialiasing (either of lines or FSAA) is enabled in LDView, in which case you want to set the background color to one that closely matches whatever you’re going to lay the image over.

--Travis



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  Re: My attempts to get a vector line drawing
 
(...) Hey, this is interesting. Is it actually just drawing the visible lines in some final rendering stage? Or is there more going on there with the Stencil and/or Depth buffer? (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

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  Re: My attempts to get a vector line drawing
 
(...) Wow do I feel stupid. No, I hadn't tried that, and it works perfectly. It's still not a vector image, but at least it gets me to a good raster image in one step instead of five. It is a bit counter-intuitive to me that the way to get a good (...) (14 years ago, 24-May-11, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

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