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How to get freestyle

Freestyle is currently beeing integrated into blender and not in the official release (trunk) from blender.org.

There are two ways to get a recent build of Freestyle. You can either get a ready-made build from graphicall.org:

  1. Do a graphicall.org search for freestyle.
  2. Take the newest build for your operating system.
  3. Unzip it, and you are good to go.

Or you compile it yourself:

  1. Get the latest revision via SVN: svn checkout https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/branches/soc-2008-mxcurioni/
  2. Then build it like you would with the trunk version. See Building Blender for more information.

Basic Use in Blender

Freestyle Checkbox in the post processing tab
Basic Freestyle Settings in Python Scripting Mode

Once ready, open blender in the location you have unzipped your premade build or where you compiled it.

  1. Check 'Freestyle' in the post processing tab. You can find this in the render options. If you don't do this freestyle will do nothing.
  2. Next, we'll need to set the actual line drawing up. Copy the settings shown in the image to the right.
  3. Now click Add Freestyle Module and choose 'uniform_pruning_zsort.py'.
  4. Give the default cube a nice color and press render. Congratulations, you've just made your first freestyle render.
And this is the result