Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Script to Easily Cel-shade/Toon-shade Everything in Scene via LLAnime/LLToon

digitani opened this issue on Feb 19, 2015 · 28 posts


digitani posted Fri, 20 February 2015 at 2:10 PM

Hey estherau!  Long time no see!  It does outlines by angle of incidence, if you know what I mean.  Its not the post-render outline filter.  That's just the way that LLToon works.  I'll post some renders when I get some more time.

Hey Boni, thanks for your response!  dlfurman is right that a lot of people don't have PP2014, including myself, so I don't know about its special features.  Will it toon shade the entire scene without you having to run a Wacro on each figure/prop?  That's exactly what I was trying to achieve, because you can't do that with Poser 10 or Poser Pro 2010.  In the versions of Poser I have, all you get is a Wacro that can be applied to only one figure at a time.

The other thing that is not obvious from my post is that I consider LLToon/LLAnime to be a better cel-shader than the built in Toon Shader Node that comes with Poser.  Bagginsbill created LLToon and could probably give you several reasons why its an improvement over the native Toon Shader Node, however, the main reason I care is that it allows you to adjust the "Toon Midpoint."  This is the point at which it switches from the light tone to the dark tone (in a two tone scenario).  The default Toon Shader Node does not allow you to adjust this, so if your character is in a dark scene, you get a flat, single shade to your character.  LLToon/LLAnime allows you to change that midpoint for darker scenes so that you can still achieve two tone shading.  That may sound like a super technical detail, but I think it matters a lot.  I was really stoked when Bagginsbill posted his shader here in the forums, and I recommend it to anyone that is into cel-shading.

Thanks for posting those renders.  They look great, but it is a very comic book style, which is not really what I'm into right now.  Can PP2014 also do a more anime look?

dlfurman, you're welcome!  Remember my caveats, though.  I already identified another problem that I need to fix.  Apparently, I'm blowing away transparency.  Easy fix, but its not done yet.

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