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An edge and line-based non-photorealistic (NPR) rendering engine. Available in Blender since version 2.67. Use this tag for all of your Freestyle related questions.

Freestyle is an edge/line-based non-photorealistic (NPR) rendering engine. It relies on mesh data and Z-depth information to draw lines on selected edge types. Various line styles can be added to produce artistic (“hand drawn”, “painted”, etc.) or technical (hard line) looks.

Freestyle at the Blender Manual

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How to make freestyle lines stay the same size?

Is it possible to make freestyle lines stay the same width relative to the distance from the camera? The way free style lines behave by default, they stay the same width in pixels, but vary relative to the size of rendered objects. How can I make…
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How to have freestyle render change to outline only at a distance

I've been playing with making coloring pages from some low-poly models of mine. To give my coloring pages variety without too much work on my part, I created a scene, populated it with all the models, and created cameras looking at it from…
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How to set distance of Freestyle line rendering?

I would like to have thicker lines near camera and a lot of thinner in some range of distance from camera. How can I achive this? I tried 'Distance from camera' modifier (I tested all settings. Including "Invert" checkbox) and the only results I'm…
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What is Freestyle chaining?

In the Freestyle render settings under the Freestyle Line Style rollout there are a group of settings having to do with chaining. I have played around with these settings in a number of ways and haven't really found any noticeable impact on the…
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Freestyle, render some objects with dashed lines and others with solid lines?

I have two objects in my scene. I'm using Freestyle. I can't figure out how to make it so that Object 1 renders with a dashed (or dotted) outline, while Object 2 simultaneously renders with a solid outline. I tried a lot of different settings -…
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How to move freestyle line sets to another layer?

How do you move blender line sets from the initial layer they were created on to another layer?
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Blender Freestyle : Vertical lines

On Blender Freestyle documentation, a picture is shown with two Suzannes made of vertical/horizontal lines. Click to enlarge How to reproduce this effect with Blender Freestyle? Using modifiers? Custom shaders?
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How can I freestyle render outlines but remove the object itself?

I am working on a project that requires the freestyle lines render set. I am creating a 3D floor plan and would like to overlay dotted lines as the "walls" of the building. How can I render the outline of a certain object, but neglect the…
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How can I solve a far away stacking Freestyle line

Im a beginner to use blender for comic i try a way to make line on faraway object to be small but it still have a result like this. their are the way or some easy method to make a stacking line look doesn't black like this?
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How to make all edges in the scene rendered by freestyle?

Is there a way to mark all edges to be rendered with freestyle, without marking all edges as freestyle lines in each individual object one by one?
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Freestyle multi-color per object?

New Blender user-- Can you mark edges for a single object to different linesets in order to assign different colors (in line style)? Many thanks I'm adding this drawing-- solid geometric object with selected edges marked for freestyle render-- but…
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Freestyle line is not showing

Im following this tutorial on YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiqrCRqyLzE. But freestyle line does not appears. Freestyle checkbox is ticked, add-ons are ticked (LoopTools, PieMenu Official). I tried it with new fresh blender project, but…
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How can I use pencil style strokes in frestyle?

How do I render in pencil strokes like in Freestyle? I have Img 1 and I want it to render like Img 2. Here is another image.
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Random lines popping up with Freestile when Sketchy

When I render a simple animation with Freestyle (all default settings, except sketchy at 3 and the Bezier modifier at 50) I get this result on some frames: There are some lines appearing out of nowhere. The model has a simple diffuse material (not…
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Render an object with a freestyle outline, ignoring objects made invisible by holdout

I have a view layer. A few collections have holdout enabled, as I wish to mask out the area they occupy. However, freestyle outlines sections that shouldn't be visible Essentially, if I have the setup with the two cubes, with one with holdout…
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