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mrZ

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  1. In RW 2009 / 2010, I used to use the Artistic - Cartoon style of rendering with a thin line width to present concepts to clients. These had good coloration with edge definition to assist quick concept understanding. With the switch to the new rendering engine in 2011, the Artistic - Cartoon style was woefully inadequate for concept presentation. I stumbled upon a technique useful in RW 2011 to generate these concept sketches with good edge definition. While looking at the viewport rendering settings, I noticed the background & foreground rendering options -- I started to experiment. Using a high level of detail for either the openGL (w/o edges on) or Custom RW options for the background render & a hidden line option for the foreground render yields the result I was looking for -- good shading with excellent edge detail w/o a big rendering penalty. WARNING: This technique is only available for viewports on sheet layers & not on the design layers. ~mrZ miniCAD/VectorWorks user since miniCAD 0.9 VectorWorks/RenderWorks Designer 2011 SP3 SL 10.6.7 macPro 3.33GHz 6-core Xeon, 16GB/1TB, Radeon HD 5870
  2. to Bob-H: I would suggest getting an 8Gb or larger USB flash drive, creating an .dmg file of the DVD (assume it's a dual layer), mounting the .dmg file & copying the mounted "disk" onto the flash drive. Since most modern macs will boot from USB (if you hold down the option key while you boot - then choose the appropriate boot volume), this will let you recover from a USB drive. Then, you won't be locked in to the DVD drive process. When Lion comes out, do the same "install to USB" procedure with the downloaded image file. ~mrZ miniCAD/VectorWorks user since miniCAD 0.9 VectorWorks/RenderWorks Designer 2011 SP3 SL 10.6.7 macPro 3.33GHz 6-core Xeon, 16GB/1TB, Radeon HD 5870
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