# About 3dtile rendering mode

**URL:** <https://community.cesium.com/t/about-3dtile-rendering-mode/8245>\
**Category:** CesiumJS\
**Created:** [May 8, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/about-3dtile-rendering-mode/8245 "2019-05-08T01:52:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![ZhouHai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/zhouhai/32/2163_2.png) [@ZhouHai](https://community.cesium.com/u/ZhouHai)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/about-3dtile-rendering-mode/8245/1 "2019-05-08T01:52:28Z")

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Hi，  
Whether cesium 3dtile supports the rendering effect shown in Figure 2, Figure 1 is the original display effect.  
thanks,

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**Author:** ![ZhouHai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/zhouhai/32/2163_2.png) [@ZhouHai](https://community.cesium.com/u/ZhouHai)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 1:54am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/about-3dtile-rendering-mode/8245/2 "2019-05-08T01:54:01Z")

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The order of the two pictures has been changed.

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**Author:** ![omar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/omar/32/1999_2.png) [@omar](https://community.cesium.com/u/omar)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 11:23am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/about-3dtile-rendering-mode/8245/3 "2019-05-17T11:23:47Z")

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I think having a wireframe mode like that would be useful. There is a wireframe debug option in the inspector:

[https://cesiumjs.org/Cesium/Build/Apps/Sandcastle/?src=3D%20Tiles%20Inspector.html](https://cesiumjs.org/Cesium/Build/Apps/Sandcastle/?src=3D%20Tiles%20Inspector.html)

Click on “Display” and then “Wireframe”. Can you post a screenshot of what your tileset looks like with this view? I expect this would display every line in the mesh, whereas it looks like you’re hoping to render just the edges of the shapes?

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**Author:** ![ZhouHai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/zhouhai/32/2163_2.png) [@ZhouHai](https://community.cesium.com/u/ZhouHai)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 5:49am UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/about-3dtile-rendering-mode/8245/4 "2019-05-23T05:49:57Z")

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yes, I hoping to render just the edges of the shapes!

 ![WeChat041bf3164ece3b8cacddb9fe1496b960.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/original/2X/4/4991c48a6753069591fb5911199e9b4bf0161f19.png)

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**Author:** ![omar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/omar/32/1999_2.png) [@omar](https://community.cesium.com/u/omar)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/about-3dtile-rendering-mode/8245/5 "2019-06-12T17:37:39Z")

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Yeah I think the closest thing is the silhouette post process, which is more of an outline than edge rendering. You can see it in these two code examples:

[https://cesiumjs.org/Cesium/Build/Apps/Sandcastle/?src=3D%20Tiles%20Feature%20Picking.html](https://cesiumjs.org/Cesium/Build/Apps/Sandcastle/?src=3D%20Tiles%20Feature%20Picking.html)

[https://cesiumjs.org/Cesium/Build/Apps/Sandcastle/?src=3D%20Models%20Coloring.html](https://cesiumjs.org/Cesium/Build/Apps/Sandcastle/?src=3D%20Models%20Coloring.html)

Your best bet may be to create a version of the model that is only edges, and then tile that to 3D Tiles. I know for example Blender has a way of generating these edges (see [https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/196](https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/196)) and perhaps you can export that.

It might be nice to be able to render this as a post process effect on the model itself in CesiumJS in the future.
