railing has lines when rendered?

[michelle l]

Hello

How do I get rid of the outlined lines on my railings. They take a texture but show up rendered with an outline of lines that make it cartoonish.

Thanks!

[Benson Shaw]

Try different render modes in Menu/View/Rendering/??? . To cut down on render time, paste some of your railing into a new drawing and render with several of the options available to see what you like best. It would be easier to help you if your post lists software and hardware you are using, and the render mode causing your angst.

If you have Renderworks, it usually defeats lines in Final mode. Or, you might be defaulting to one of the Renderworks "Artistic" modes, some of which render with edge and fill lines. One is even called "Cartoon".

Some of the Polygon rendering modes also have lines.

Are you working with viewports? It is possible, and sometimes desirable to have a rendered viewport stacked below an unrendered one (emphasizes edges). You would see lots of lines in this situation.

Add more info to your post for better responses on this.

Good luck!

-B

[Dave Donley]

Hello Michelle:

Are you editing a symbol or group when you rendering? There is a known bug that a wireframe copy draws on top of the rendered copy for plugins when you're editing them inside a group or symbol.

[michelle l]

Dave: I am in fact doing this in a group! Thanks for saving me the madness. It worked!!!!

Benson: Thank you for letting me know my info was not showing up. I use XP, VW12, Renderworks and do not use viewports.

Thanks to you both for your time and answers!