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Toon Shader - Toon Shader, cartoon, anime,
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Plugins + Scripts Toon Shader
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Hello, i would like to know if this is a issue on my end or is the shader not compatible with the vam light shadows, when i use a light that cast shadows it seems to apply to the debug t-pose model thing instead the character. Also it seems that the transparency problem apply to skin textures overlays as well, unfortunately making the shader incompatible with plugins like decalmaker.
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Wow, I had not realized just how many issues this resource solves over the old alternative. You're a god.
The two shots here differentiate on the outline thickness mostly. As you mentioned in the outline resource page, intensifying the effect beyond what looks nice in-game/realtime will get it to show up prominently via SuperShot (although I just slightly overdid it still).
I hadn't realized there was some mess going around on the right stocking but whatever; it's proof of concept. I love these options and with some more time to mess around I'd love to see just how usable they are in a variety of lighting situations (a huge weakness of the HS offering, among others).
The two shots here differentiate on the outline thickness mostly. As you mentioned in the outline resource page, intensifying the effect beyond what looks nice in-game/realtime will get it to show up prominently via SuperShot (although I just slightly overdid it still).
I hadn't realized there was some mess going around on the right stocking but whatever; it's proof of concept. I love these options and with some more time to mess around I'd love to see just how usable they are in a variety of lighting situations (a huge weakness of the HS offering, among others).
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I had this issue too in a different B. Jenet scene with different lighting; in the Jessica scene I had an issue where I had to disable a directional light as its shadows were creating a transparent effect on Jessica's body. I didn't see the t-pose shadow but that always spawns at the default atom position and stays there, so maybe I had the model substantially repositioned and it was out of sight.
This was also an issue in one or two of the early versions of Hunting-Succubus's AnimeCelEffect plugin, at least for me. I'm not sure what causes it either but with this resource you CAN make it go away by messing around with various render queue values; it's just that then the rest of the scene might not be displaying/interacting with lighting correctly.
I’ve resolved the shadow issue, and the clothing save issue is fixed as well. I’m now waiting for the resource to be approved.
and I’ve also posted the CUA toon shader.
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great job man, i just checked using some light setups and the character is receiving shadows properly, the menacing t-pose shadow is no longer. We are this close to the perfect anime shader, there's just one issue with the outline plugin that id like to report(sorry if it was supposed to post in the other page).
It seems that whenever there's a body party in front of another it creates a transparency in the outline making it invisible.
I did some other tests and it seems that the atom skin color have a direct correlation to how the outline will behave regardless of what outline color you choose. If the character have white/fair skin and the background is dark, the outline will be more visible and if the background is less dark it will be less visible/transparent(which is the inverse of what should happen with a dark outline).
Alternatively if your character have a dark skin and the background is white the outline will behave like it should and be visible, and almost invisible in a dark background. But no matter what skin or outline color you choose it will never appear if it's in front of the character itself. I dunno if this info helps or not, just disregard if it's stuff you already knew.
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Right now, the most challenging task is improving the outline plugin.
The way the outline works is that when the asset bundle loads, a large cube appears.
I made the shader so that any object inside the cube gets outlined.
Since the cube is huge, the characters, assets, and even the camera view all exist inside it.
The outline appears based on distance, and thickness or spread can be adjusted with sliders.
But making it more precisely controllable—that’s honestly beyond me. As I’ve said many times, I don’t actually know how to code.
Just a few months ago, I thought of a desktop as nothing more than a game console, and I’m still not much different, haha.
I just reference plugins from the Hub, come up with slightly different concepts, and work with ChatGPT to test whether the ideas or improvements are feasible.
So, if I ever improve the outline plugin, I’d probably have to rebuild it from scratch—rewrite both the shader and the script, and rethink the entire system.
And right now, I need to focus on scene production.
I’ve spent too much time on plugin development.
My supporters are not here for plugins—they want scenes.
