A npr renderer for Wings?

[Dimitri]

Hello Micheus... my idea is not so much about having a fully fledged 'toon' renderer... it is just about having a very simple line art renderer which could depict in a clear cut way the hard edges of an object plus its silhouette. Such a renderer may have two options: one for depicting only the lines (a black and white line rendering) and one depicting the lines with a simple scanline shading rendering.

I know there is the already existent export to 'cartoon edges' (eps) choice... but if you want to represent the object in lines and shadows you have to obtain another shaded rendering and synthesize it with the lines image in an image editing app... something that will produce a difficulty as to layering the two images so that they may fit each other accurately.

The best way is to have a very simple internal renderer that will make the work inside Wings... this will make very accessible to re-pose the objects immediately and render them directly, in a very easy way.

Below there is a page with a lot of links to npr related locations, hope that it can be of some help... I am totally illiterate in programming matters, but I suppose someone who has some idea may find many things in it:

http://www.red3d.com/cwr/npr/#toon