How to render Wireframe for the entire scene not just one object?

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Sorry if this is a daft question but in all the tutorials I've watched it just shows how to do a wireframe for one object not an entire scene and I don't really fancy having to select every single object and apply the wireframe mod to it. I know about the wireframe material that I could apply to the scene but that displays it in triangles and I want it in Quads.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 09 '18 at 23:12

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Here how would I do this task.

Get 2.8x version
Set up overlays like this:

When setup matcap and cavity as you want:

If the result is not bad, click View -> Viewport render.
If you want wireframe on top of Cycles (or outer) Render Setup viewport like this:

In color management set View transform to default

When click View -> Viewport render and compose resulted image over render using multiply.

answered Dec 09 '18 at 23:12

Crantisz

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 09 '18 at 23:53

Quick script nothing fancy just uncomment set or removed at bottom and run for 2.79. Note that removing the wireframe modifier will not discriminate if there were some you wanted to leave in place.

import bpy

objects = bpy.context.scene.objects


def set_wired():
    for ob in objects:
        if ob.type == 'MESH':
            objects.active = ob
            bpy.ops.object.modifier_add(type='WIREFRAME')


def rem_wired():
    for ob in objects:
        if ob.type == 'MESH':
            objects.active = ob
            try:
                bpy.ops.object.modifier_remove(modifier="Wireframe")
            except:
                print('no wireframe modifier on %s' % ob.name)

set_wired()
#rem_wired()

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 09 '18 at 22:47

I could be wrong, but I don't think there is a way to do that normally in Blender, but if you program Python (unless someone might be willing to whip up a quick script for you), I think you should be able to modify this script to do exactly what you're looking for...

https://en.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Render/Clay_Render

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 10 '18 at 11:15

Once you have your wireframe material created just set in in the Materials box

This is how I created all the clay/wire videos here https://youtu.be/Q6FS9sRJcDQ?t=48

and the Python if you need to automate it.

bpy.context.scene.render.layers["RenderLayer"].material_override = bpy.data.materials["MYMATERIALNAME"]

How to render Wireframe for the entire scene not just one object?

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