Did you hear the good news that vue is doing non photorealistic rendering in 2015 version?  This is extremely good news for anyone making pictures like comics, graphic novels, greating cards etc.

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Yes, I did read see that as well. Don't want to get excited yet, first want to see it in action before getting all exitced about it. Sure sounds like an interesting addition, but so did the whole photo realistic addition in Vue 2014. At first I was really excited about it, until I started using it. Then the shadow issues came and the horrible long rendering times and I was left with an addition that I never use and will only be really improved in Vue 2015. So on paper the new rendering sounds great, but I need to see it working before I can start jumping up and down for joy :)

I can't help it. I'm all excited!

I've tried it now, and actually I'm wondering if it is real NPR or just a postwork filter?  anybody know?

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I've tried it now, and actually I'm wondering if it is real NPR or just a postwork filter?  anybody know?

Love esther

As far as I can tell it is a mix. You need to activate it before starting a render and then Vue collects additional info with the render (similar to G-buffer/layers). This information is then used in post processing to apply the effects. So without activating the NPR render you cannot use it, but it is not applying the effects directly during rendering. This has the advantage that you are not locked into one style, but can also be limiting especially when one tries to use it with animation. What I found is that it is best to replace all materials with simple ones for NPR. That gives very fast render times and most detail doesn't matter if you use the NPR styles. So, it is more than "just" postwork, but less than a NPR that works at the shader level. Which one is better will depend on what you want to accomplish.
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TD

Hmm, I was wondering if any rendering was involved. I was hoping for a sort of angle of incidence cartoon line render.

Love esther

Here is a sample of various animation render Vue 2015 modes to compare, HDR, Photo, NPR and Vue Multi-Pass with G-Buffer layering to see fx effects and alpha quality).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyBDfAfbUIQ  The scene is 8M+ Polys and oodles of textures run on a 16gb amdfx.  900 frames, rendered in Ultra on a 10 rendercow farm takes less than 10 hours.  Before AVX this would have taken well over 20+ hours,

Oh... and pardon the crappy pig animation.  It was tossed in to test the Poser import.

Oh I wanted to see the pig.  The link doesn't work.

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Thanks for your interest.  The link to the Pacific Pig video:  https://youtu.be/WyBDfAfbUIQ  .  The scene further inspired me to make it a video game... so I made this teaser for "P-40 Killzone, Gauntlet of Boom" and am preparing the game which should be ready for the the 4th of July. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iYjA8pj22U