Just as a note I set the environment colour to black to give the black background. What this does is use whatever material you put in the slot on all objects at render time, including windows, this is usfull when first building and placing objects in a scene.Īnd all you have to do now is set you camera and lights and your favourite render settings and you should get something like the preceding images. Now you can just drag and drop your new material to the override mtl slot. Select the V-Ray tab, open the Vray:Global switches and put a check next to the Override mtl. Ok now we have the material made we need to go to your render setup in the Rendering menu or (F10).

This texture is only for drawing a line along the polygon edges in a certain colour and thikness, generaly I use black with a thickness of 0.5 pixels. Once you have the basic material up click the little box next to the diffuse colour and a slightly amended list will come up, select VrayEdgesTex from this new list. The standard vray material defaults to 50% grey in the colour slot, if you want the base colour to be different then you can change it if you want. Rename the material to something like 'clay wire-frame'Īnd click the standard slot to change the material and select VRayMtl from the list. To do this we use a material with VrayEdgesTex in the diffuse slot of a standard vray material with all other settings as standard.įor the all the newbies here press (M) to get the Material Editor up and select an empty slot. The above pictures are of a clay render, this is generaly used to show a wireframe of a model or scene, to render this we make a material that draws line along all the polygon edges.

Just incase you don’t know how to do a normal clay rendering I will go through that first and then go through the slight changes you have to make to render a transparent wire-frame. After a bit of fiddling about and a few renders it turns out to be very simple and obvious, so without delay here is how you do it. So I went back to Studio Max and set about working it out.

I have rendered a normal clay wire-frame before but not a transparent one as above, so I did a quick search on Google and could not find any reference for doing this using vray in 3D Studio Max which surprised me. Recently I was looking for a way to render a transparent wire-frame.

3ds max wireframe render