I’ve been meaning to comment on this but didn’t make a screen grab before now… Once in a while, when shifting between applications and coming back to Rhino, the display is more like an illustration than a rendering - i.e. more like a Penguin output than what is possible with a current display mode. …

[image] wim: No high hopes for getting this as a display mode in the short term then Ha, how wrong can one be? [image] jeff: There is a little backdoor Easter egg How appropriate - seasons greetings to you too! :hatching_chick: And this is just great - instant NPR on demand. [image…

[image] jeff: NPR shading algorithm Nice, could we have this hidden feature in rendered mode too? It only works in shaded mode for me.

@Holo It does work in Rendered mode… but it only works with standard light sources… the skylight has no direction to it… The NPR algorithm requires a source and direction in order to compute the highlighted sections. I could force a light (i.e. A headlamp), but where’s the fun in that?

Voila! Rendered mode… [image]

@wim @Holo I should also point out that if you hold down the TAB during a view capture, it will also work… even for larger than screen captures (i.e. Scale > 1). -J

Or even better…(This one takes a bit more work though…) With just the Skylight ON… Use TestShowShadowMap to get the Skylight shadows showing… Capture the shadow map. Turn OFF the shadow map by running TestShowShadowMap again Turn OFF the Skylight Capture the frame again holding the TAB key dow…

that is awesome! can you make a .ini and publish this? adding silhouette on top would be awesome too!

Hi Jeff, [image] jeff: Use TestShowShadowMap to get the Skylight shadows showing any more gems like that come to your mind you can share ? :wink:

@Jarek Well there’s this one…but unfortunately it sounds like it doesn’t work for you (yet) due to the z-buffer issue :(… But if you grab large view captures of both the shadow map and depth map (z-buffer)…and multiply those together…you can get some pretty interesting results. [image] [image] …

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jeff (Jeff LaSor) March 26, 2018, 3:46pm 13

@Holo

If you turn the Sun on (or just add a directional light)…Then you can continue to use the Skylight as well…but you’ll most likely need to crank the intensity way down on the skylight…

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