"Ghosted" Rendering

[Kevin McAllister]

I would like VW to add a "ghosted" render mode like Rhino both for editing the model and for presentation in sheet layer viewports. Its incredibly useful because objects feel solid but you can see a faint outline of things inside or behind them. It makes many modelling tasks much easier without having the information overload of wireframe.

Kevin

[mike m oz]

That and / or an X-ray mode like Sketchup has would be very useful.

[VincentCuclair]

Don't greyed layers already do that? (Sorry never used Rhino)

Or perhaps Layer opacity?

Edited March 30, 2014 by Vincent C

[AndiACD]

Sounds good . . .

[Kevin McAllister]

Don't greyed layers already do that? (Sorry never used Rhino)

Or perhaps Layer opacity?

Not really. The "ghosted" rendering looks through single objects. For what you're suggesting to work the objects would need to be separated by layer or class.

Here's a comparison of Rhino's ghosted mode (its OpenGL in the editor I believe) and VW OpenGL. Rhino is much nicer to look at / work with for all sorts of reasons.

Kevin

Edited March 30, 2014 by Kevin McAllister

[AndiACD]

Looks even better . . .

[VincentCuclair]

Kevin, the VWs image doesn't look like it's greyed, try setting all classes to greyed and see what happens......

[Kevin McAllister]

Vincent, I gave it a try. The problem is in VW the current layer or class is always solid. Also Open GL doesn't draw edges on grayed layers / classes.

KM

Edited March 30, 2014 by Kevin McAllister

[VincentCuclair]

Yeah I tried it too, your wish still stands and shouldn't be hard to implement seeing that the different techniques are already in place in one form or another.....

[PVA - Admin]

I find myself wanting a similar view in 3D often. The Xray tool is fine for quick moments but a full view mode would be quicker and more useful for modelling a complex 3D figure without having to flip back and forth between wireframe and OpenGL.

Submitting request now.

[Kevin McAllister]

Thanks Jim. Do you know why the edges in OpenGL in VW are so much more pixel-ly than in Rhino and other programs? My two screen shots really show it well. Is it because VW doesn't properly support my retina display?

Kevin

[PVA - Admin]

Retina displays are still going to show jaggedness all over the place in VW until that is addressed, so that COULD be a lot of what you are seeing currently.

The other answer is most likely that OpenGL is intended to be a fast, modelling mode, not a final presentation mode and they keep things lower quality by default (that can not be increased to presentation quality by the user) to keep up speed instead.

I feel that the recent OpenGL improvements have been such that it should be usable both as a presentation view at reasonable speed with decent hardware. I'll put in for more control over this quality.

Edited March 31, 2014 by JimW