Creating high-quality wireframe renderings of both, smoothed polygonal meshes and NURBS geometry, is finally possible using mental ray for Maya and the ticket01′s Contours plug-in and its accompanying shaders. With its easy setup you’re just a few clicks away from creating the most beautiful wireframe renderings done ever.
Polygon meshes – smooth wireframe rendering*
Contours is the only shader available that allows you to render high-quality wireframe images of polygonal meshes created with Maya’s Smooth Mesh Preview that totally resemble the viewport preview.
* works with mental ray for Maya and mental ray Standalone
NURBS surfaces – smooth isoline rendering**
The shader supports trimmed NURBS surfaces. Also the span count can be overridden to create more isolines in U and V direction wiithout changing the object itself. Contours allows for simple contour shading as well as using it in conjunction with every other more complex contour shader, e.g. contour_shader_depthfade, mental ray offers.
** works with mental ray for Maya
