{"id":1809,"date":"2020-03-06T22:24:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T02:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vertexture.org\/?page_id=1809"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:11:37","slug":"ziwireframeviewport","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vertexture.org\/?page_id=1809","title":{"rendered":"ziWireframeViewport"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ziWireframeViewport <\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Compatible from Maya 2019 through 2025<\/em><\/p>\n
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T<\/span><\/span>his plugin will display the selected mesh wireframe with specific parameters in the maya\u2019s viewport.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Installation<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Put the plugin file in your maya plug-in path. To retrieve the path, just type in the melscript console editor:<\/span><\/p>\n
getenv MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH<\/em><\/p>\n
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C:\/Users\/user\/Documents\/maya\/mayaversion\/plug-ins <\/em><\/p>\n
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Put the .py files in your maya script path,<\/span><\/p>\n
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Load it with the plug-in manager then:<\/span><\/p>\n
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import zi_wireframe<\/span><\/p>\n
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The display features will be applied to the selected mesh<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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Surface Color <\/span><\/strong>\u2013 <\/span><\/span>Please pick the desired geometry displayed rgb color (<\/span>rgb<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span>a)<\/span><\/li>\n
Line color<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/strong>\u2013 This stands for wireframe color itself.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
Surface Alpha<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/span>\u2013 so you can specify the alpha component of the Surface Alpha (rgb.<\/span>a<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/li>\n
Depth Priority <\/span><\/strong>\u2013 Actually the Zdeph test for the wireframe display. Increasing this value would draw the wireframe ontop of the rest of scene.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
Line Width<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 The thickness of the wireframe<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
Split Threshold<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 A convenient attribute for ziCut. The resulting vertices will be merged with the existing ones depending of this distance value.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
Backface Culling<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 The wireframe polygons facing away the camera won\u2019t be display if the value is low. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
Source Backface <\/span><\/strong>\u2013 If ticked on, the DAG mesh geometry will be set as backface culled.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
Override Shading<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 if on, the DAG mesh geometry will display its polygon surface.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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