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Subject: Trying to setup Toon Render


kkrawal ( ) posted Thu, 04 March 2010 at 8:35 AM · edited Wed, 05 February 2025 at 12:48 AM

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Using P7. Trying to setup Toon Render as I read in the tutorials in this forum. Its not looking so nice, how to make it more better.

This settings
Only One Light
Diffuse LBL,
Depth Map
Shadow Blur Radius 9
Min Bias 0.786
Ambient Occlusion Strength 0.7
Parameter: Intensity: 91%

 


bagginsbill ( ) posted Thu, 04 March 2010 at 9:58 AM

Hmm. Toon rendering isn't so much about lighting as it is about the shaders (materials).

Toon styles vary, but generally involve an intentional over-simplification of how materials react to light. Instead of smooth variations with angle of incidence, you want basically only 2 or 3 solid colors to represent highlights, strong light, and shadow. Depending on the exact style, the transition between these colors may be gradual or abrupt. The Toon node does this. But there are many different styles within that category of style, and the Toon node can't do them all.

Tooning is just one of many non-photorealistic styles or illustrative styles. An is example is air-brushing, like Vargas illustrations. I've posted materials for that in the past. There is also news-print or old comic book style, with stippling instead of colors with shades and varying luminance. I've posted things like that as well.

Perhaps you could link to or show an example of the style you desire, and then we could talk about how to make that style.


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bevans84 ( ) posted Thu, 04 March 2010 at 12:13 PM

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I usually use D3d's Toon! python script, along with Ockham's z-flatten script set at around 15 to 25% z-depth. Typically, no shadows with a single distant light. This example is a bit blurry, but kind of gives the idea. A lot of personal preference involved.



bagginsbill ( ) posted Thu, 04 March 2010 at 1:11 PM · edited Thu, 04 March 2010 at 1:12 PM

VSS can do it, too.

Check out Vestmann's work with tooning in VSS.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2737823&page=80


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kkrawal ( ) posted Thu, 04 March 2010 at 8:11 PM

Quote - I usually use D3d's Toon! python script, along with Ockham's z-flatten script set at around 15 to 25% z-depth. Typically, no shadows with a single distant light.
This example is a bit blurry, but kind of gives the idea. A lot of personal preference involved.

Your image is tooooooo good, please post your settings.....


kkrawal ( ) posted Thu, 04 March 2010 at 8:33 PM

@bagginsbill
Great work.
I have gone thrugh your freebee and  extracted vssPR1A and pasted the directed runtime in my Poser7 Installation Directory
Now what to do?


hborre ( ) posted Thu, 04 March 2010 at 9:08 PM

Read the manual and VSS related posts in the forum. 


Tashar59 ( ) posted Thu, 04 March 2010 at 10:11 PM

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I just set mine up in material room.

The skin is my own creation with toon settings. All the other materials are just normal textures with toon setup.


Miss Nancy ( ) posted Sat, 06 March 2010 at 5:42 PM

angelina img above is my fav.
this question gets asked approx every 3-6 mos. here.
the thread usu. dies before OP posts example of toon which OP wishes to emulate.
there are svl styles and methods avail. in poser.
snowsultan's z-toon was devel. fr P4 and gives amusing results for action poses, esp.
models w/ clothes and body part projections in poser z-axis, but works well for
full frontal static poses, hence not suitable for animation IMVHO.



bagginsbill ( ) posted Sat, 06 March 2010 at 11:48 PM

Quote - angelina img above is my fav.
this question gets asked approx every 3-6 mos. here.
the thread usu. dies before OP posts example of toon which OP wishes to emulate.

You are so right about that. I never really thought about it, but that is totally true.

I wonder why? Maybe it's mostly kids wanting to make toons and then they get in over their head and find it isn't so easy, and so they wander off because there is so much else new when one is a kid? i don't know.


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