Here's a quick render of the toon puppy using daz's color map hooked into the light and dark colors of the toon shader. One light. Anisotropic highlights on the corneas, glossy on the nose.

And the shader.

This is awesome! I love the puppy!!! *8^D

Interesting effect. Thanks for the tip :o)

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I'm allergic to cute, but that is a nice-looking effect!

I am usually allergic to cute, too, but I enjoy playing with the material room. Some people get massages. Others go to spas. Still others read or listen to music. I play with the Poser 5 material room to relax. :)

On more photorealitic textures, it works well for deepening the shadows a bit.

Modified Crescent's Toon Shaders
Plugging textures into the Toon node works with these as well as giving you an outline effect you may/may not want. To kill the outline, just eliminate the top "Edge Blend" node.

-Yggdrasil- what effect does the Blinn node have when plugged into the Alternate_Specular? Thanks!

Can somebody please tell me what I'm doing wrong in trying to reproduce Kiera's shader? All I can seem to find in nodes to apply a map is the Image_Map node. I don't have a Color_Texture node.

The normal diffuse channel (the one at the top) should be set to zero.

Ah, yes that did it. Thanks! But I still don't understand why I have an Image_Map node and Kiera has a Color_Texture node. Where do you find the Color_Texture node? Was it named differently in a previous service release or something?

What seems to happen with the mat room is that when you first go into it, with a mat pose applied, the node connected to diffuse_color will be called "Color Texture". If you then remove that and add a new image map, it will be called just Image_Map. Add some more and you'll have Image_map_2, etc. You can also see this with trans maps. When you first enter the room, they're called, um, "Transparency_Map" I think, but again if you remove the original and add a new one, it'll become "Image_Map".

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Yep, that's it. I had been bringing in an untextured model. Once I tried it with the puppy I got the Color_Texture too :) Well, I've only had P5 for just over two weeks so I'm still fumbling - thanks for the help everyone!

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