Ideas of Elite

[Canardia]

I always wanted to reproduce the hidden line effect like in Elite.
Using textures leads to a stretching anomaly.
Currently my approach is to bevel edges in Blender and paint them full white.
I'm a n00b in shaders, so I don't know if that path would be feasible.
The idea is this:

[Thirsty Panther]

Try this.

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/wtVSDh

[Canardia]

That is wireframe, not hidden lines.
I think a shader could not do the job, as it would need to know which edges to highlight, the artist doesn't want all edges that way.

I just realized that Elite is 40 years old and it still reminds me of a very playable game.
Now I came up with a quite stupid idea, but it might actually bring some bonus features:
I could just draw the lines on top of a black model using white bars (streched cubes), or perhaps toblerone sticks.
Upon collision the white bars would detach and float into space.

[Josh]

You could make a wireframe version of the mesh and display it in addition to the polygon version:
https://www.ultraengine.com/learn/CreateMesh?lang=cpp