White background for Non-Photorealistic rendering mode

[christos.saplachidis]

We are interested to create a series of technical images/guides using the Non-Photorealistic mode. Changing the background color from preferences or using a white backplate has no effect on background colour which is always black for Non-Photorealistic rendering mode. Is there a way to change to a white background without rendering using alpha channels? 

[seiferp · Accepted solution]

You can either disable/hide the environment node in the scene and tick the export alpha channel checkbox in the render settings, when rendering to png. The alpha is than rendered into the image directly. Or you assign a new plastic material to the dome and change the NPR colors, if you really want to render a specific color into the image.

[christos.saplachidis]

NPR tab in material editor stands for Non-Photorealistic rendering...of course!

Instead of the rendering to png and using alpha it is much quicker to create a draft version by snipping the viewport. Very helpfull for setting up draft presentations with many images.

Thank you P.

[seiferp]

Yeah, both is possible. You can render NPR with just 4 or 8 samples which is pretty quick. I intend to render with alpha included, as I never know for which ppt template background it will good for 😁.