How to add shades to sketches

[bji]

Hello,

I cant seem to add any colour to my sketch renderings. Is this possible and if so how is this done?

Thanks

[Vectorlogic]

One way is to make a view port and duplicate it in place, set the frontmost viewport to hidden line render(sketch mode or not) and set the other viewport to an other style of render, ie. artistic render cartoon or watercolor has a nice effect

[Pat Stanford]

If you have VW2008, set the Foreground Render Mode to Hidden Line and set the Render Options to Sketch Result. Set the Background Render Mode to any of the solid render modes (Open GL, Renderworks, Radiosity, Artistic RenderWorks).

In VW 12, you had to do the stacked viewport thing.

Pat

[Tom G.]

The rendering choices on the Object Info palette really should be simpler.

Hidden Line as a background render makes sense. And the foreground render offers Sketch, which also makes sense (along with another Hidden Line choice). But in fact, there is yet another Sketch option that is available, not through the choice of Sketch, but rather through the choice of Hidden Line, as Pat says above.

If I have a background render set as a Hidden Line and the foreground set as Sketch, shouldn't that be the end of it? Hidden Line below Sketch. Apparently not. Set your render to read Hidden Line-below-Hidden Line, check the next radio button and THEN set that choice to Sketch. Is this awfully unintuitive or is it just me?

Thanks, Pat, for showing the process. I've been running around a tree all night trying to get a simple extruded rectangle to render correctly.