As I knonw, in Max, user can show object all in wireframe mode after pressing key ‘F3’. But in my work, I encountered one requirement that users want to show one special geometry node in wireframe node always. How can I make it?
Thanks a lot!
I don’t think you can set a wireframe display mode per-node as a node property (there’s a ‘display as box’.
You could exploit a Standard material’s Wireframe property, which does force the node it’s applied to to be displayed as wireframe… using a Shell material you can easily have this apply only to the viewport, and keep the original material for rendering:
$.material = shell_material originalmaterial:$.material bakedMaterial:(standard wire:true) viewportMtlIndex:1
bit kludgy, but should do the trick
Another way to sort of fake it is the lattice modifier.
so the lattice modifier would actually fake nodal wireframe mode in the viewport, never thought about that, definitely will try it. But how would the performance be if it were in a large scene, would it have an impact on memory?..
Layers perhaps :
$.displayByLayer = true
(layermanager.getlayer 1).display = #wireframe
Like Ruramuq said create a special wireframe layer and move objects in and out of it based on what you want displayed as wireframe compared to the default display mode. NOTE: display overrides work in all display modes, except bounding box. Also, here is a fix to Ruramuq’s code to properly change the layer display of the selected object:
$.displayByLayer = true
(layermanager.getlayerfromname ($.layer.name)).display = #wireframe
-Eric
It seems it is not an easy function to support in max script. I would like to try your suggestions first. But I am busy today. Maybe I can try out tomorrow.
Thank all of your guys.
Thanks for the help! Both of the two ways work. I do not know which one has less side effect. But material one is very simple to do.