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crgquest

03-04-2002, 11:55 PM

Hello fellow artist, I was wondering if in fact there might be a toon shader/toon renderer plugin for 3d max 4 that anyone may know about. There is noway I could aford to get "wavefront" or "softimage". I'm a starving atrist like the rest of you guys & girls. I found a link where there was a download for a max toon shader (?) but when I tried to download, It said it no longer exist.
So if anyone knows about a plugin or a cheap software that has a toon renderer/shader, please let me know. Thank you in advance for your help.

Fellow artist,
crgquest

Leonard

03-05-2002, 12:11 AM

Our buddy David Gould (who is now working at Exluna) has arguably the best toon shader for 3ds max - Illustrate!

http://www.davidgould.com

Best regards,

Leo

xzevlin

03-05-2002, 01:56 AM

Here's a little trick I use to get a quick and decent toon shader effect:

Grab your lights (this only works if you have 2 or 3 in the scene), and turn the contrast between 75 and 100%, and your Soften Diffuse edge between 0 and 25%.

Render that with a Catmull-Rom anti-aliasing effect, and it turns out pretty good.

zkydz

03-05-2002, 06:52 AM

Go to www.neilblevins.com for an excellent tut on making the textures that'll do this without messing witht he lights. For the best results, Il;lustrate as mentioned above, but, this'll give you a great start.

zkydz

xynaria

03-05-2002, 08:25 AM

Although it might be expensive, Brazil when it finally comes out has from what I've seen a very capable and versatile set of toon shaders. Final Render also has toon shaders which are perhaps not as versatile.Rumour has it that Vecta 3D is .. er ..*pants*. :)

03-07-2002, 10:35 PM

There's also cartoon-reyes. Haven't worked with it yet but the images seem interesting. I missed an easy funtion in illustrate to change the strenght within one line. It's impressive how the lines in cartoon-reyes fade in and out.

http://www.reyes-infografica.net/cartoon.php

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