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    Wire Frame View

    Jonathan Delorenzo(BirdOfWar )
    posted to: Blocking the Frame

    I can't figure out why Jonathan's wire frame view no longer has lines on the front faces.  My model still has all the wire framing outlines of each vertex connection showing whereas Jonathan's has just the framing outlines of all the overall object shapes we just filled.

    I have the faces filled and everything appears to be fine and look fine.

    Why is this?

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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      That is probably because you are in Edit Mode on both Objects (or maybe they are still one Object...did you P > Seperate them ?)

      After seperating them, go into Object Mode and then both Objects are still selected....you need to select the new Object, so that becomes the only selected Object. Then you can go into Edit Mode.

      In the Blender Version you are using, you can go into Edit Mode on more than one Object at the same time! I think that is what happened to you.

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      Jonathan Delorenzo(BirdOfWar ) replied
      Hey Martin!

      They are all separated (I'm pretty sure I was very careful about that because I was not sure about the ramifications, but is there a way I can check to ensure they have in fact been separated by selection?)

      When I try to go to each object tab into edit mode >> select all >> separate by selection is creates a duplicate of the same object I don't want (at least now, when first drawing the shape we did)


      They are all in object mode I just doubled checked.

    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Could it be that you have All Edges enabled? (Highly unlikely, I guess, but possible and if so, the next solution wouldn't work.)

      These two Objects are the same, but the right one has All Edges checked:

      AllEdges.png

      Or simply reduce the Wireframe Overlay anything less than 1 should work).

      Honestly, I had to play around a bit..I never noticed this...definitely not something that would keep me awake at night...goes to show that all people are different/

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      Jonathan Delorenzo(BirdOfWar ) replied
      All edges seems to be disabled, so we are good there.

      That was something I checked before asking you my question. Sorry I forgot to mention that. My apologiesss

      Where do I access wire frame overlay?

      Is there any negative impacts of these all of these wire frame edges showing?
    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Oh, and a good way to see if things are seperate Objects, is to look at the Outliner; you can also see if the Objects are in Edit Mode or not:

      Edit.png

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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      That Wireframe option lives here (forgot to add the image before):

      Wire.png

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      Jonathan Delorenzo(BirdOfWar ) replied


      So if each object has a one to one edit"icon" next to it, this would indicate it's a separate object?

    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      If they have different names, they are seperate Objects. So, each line is a seperate Object.


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      Jonathan Delorenzo(BirdOfWar ) replied

      I have attached two images:

      One image with wire frame set to 1

      One image with wire frame set to 0

      When set to 0 it still does not get rid of most of the lines, but some. I will read about wire frames, but this seems like such a odd thing to get stuck on lol. Not sure what could be causing it.





    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      The only thing I can think of at this moment is, that that 'face' of that Object isn't flat, as it is supposed to be.

      Select that part of the Mesh in Edit Mode and then S, X, 0   to make it flat.

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      Jonathan Delorenzo(BirdOfWar ) replied
      Yeah that didn't do it either. I'm not sure. Must have messed up something. At this point because that object has 3 parts extruded at different depths I think anything I do to flatten it will break it.

      Is there anything inherently wrong with showing all of the edges (I think that's they are referred to as)?
    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Probably not, but if you can post a link to your .blend file here (via Googledrive, Dropbox, or so), I can have a look and see what is causing it.

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      Jonathan Delorenzo(BirdOfWar ) replied

      Link to file

    • Martin Bergwerf replied
      Solution

      Ok, thanks!

      There is absolutely nothing wrong with your model! It's looking great!

      The thing that makes it look different is due to the older Version used in the video.

      This is what that piece looks like in 2.79:

      Version.png

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    • Omar Domenech replied

      I think I know what is happening. That tutorial is from old Blender and wireframes in old Blender used to look very very different than after the whole thing changed. So the behavior of the wireframe you are seeing on the video no longer exists.

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      Jonathan Delorenzo(BirdOfWar ) replied

      I see.

      Thank you Mark and Omar.

      Sorry it's tricky as I don't know what's an error due to inexperience vs different implementations of different components in newer versions.

    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      You're welcome Jonathan!

      It's always a good idea to ask if you're unsure!

      And I learned something along the way 😊

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