P7 user here. I was curious if there were any new features in Poser Pro 2012 in the toon shading department that are absent from previous versions. Thanks

I'm not aware of any but perhaps you aren't using P7 to its full potential.

I posted a pretty flexible toon shader that does a lot of different styles here:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2801137

These are straight out of Poser.

Am I to take it that one would apply the shader to every material in the scene?

Yes. The shader is VSS compatible so it can be a one-click.

Very nice BB...

Particularly like the black and white one as a comic book style.

Is it possible to do a retro halftone sort of effect (for color fills) with a Poser shader??

This sort of thing I guess:

Since that is a uniform pattern in the 2D page, it would be difficult to do in shaders on the subject. I would even say impossible, but I've learned over the years that few people are qualified to say what is not at all possible, except for mathematicians.

However, I think my artistic lens could do it rather credibly, as that is a 2D rectangle and shader suspended between the 3D scene objects and the camera.

Another idea for a product, perhaps? grin

Quote - Another idea for a product, perhaps? grin

He he... could well be...

I guess, really, the halftone effect is just an artifact, of sorts, from the printing process, for old comics...

...so the actual model / figure shader would just be equivalent to one of your above examples... eg. the black and white one... and yeah, then "screened" I guess using a kind of "camera lens filter" prop might do it, as you say?

I guess something like that could maybe do other 2d effects too, as well as the pseudo half-tone... e.g. colouring pencil-like strokes, watercolor blotches... that sort of thing?

Certainly sounds like a fun idea to me... it could maybe do other 2d photo filters too... sepia, polaroid, etc?

My wife now seems to make pretty much all her hdr grade, digital SLR photos look like they came out of an old-school instamatic, LOL :lol:

Quote - I'm not aware of any but perhaps you aren't using P7 to its full potential.

I posted a pretty flexible toon shader that does a lot of different styles here:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2801137

These are straight out of Poser.

Okay thanks.