topic Re: Arnold Toon Shader in 3ds Max Shading, Lighting and Rendering Forum

Arnold Toon Shader

CreativeFRV — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 05:02:59 GMT

Help, scanline stopped working for me in the middle of a simple project so I've had to switch to Arnold for this outline effect.

The problem is I have the toon shader looking just the way I want in Active Shade... but the outlines do not render when I do a full render.

I don't get it... please have a look at the samples to see what I'm referring to, any help is greatly appreciated.

ps. I think Arnold is taking years off my life. Every time I've a new project I have to beg borrow and steal to get what I need and it's almost always something super simple. Why cant there just be a default setting that works out of the box? Its maddening.

Frank

Re: Arnold Toon Shader

CreativeFRV — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 05:14:12 GMT

Here is a screen shot showing my shader and render

Re: Arnold Toon Shader

CreativeFRV — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 05:18:45 GMT

Well, I may have figured it out. I did indeed have Filtering set to Contour... only on checking it, it was back to Gaussian... fingers crossed it holds and that was it.

Re: Arnold Toon Shader

CreativeFRV — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 05:20:43 GMT

And the thickness is strictly controlled in render settings? Is that right? Seems odd.

Re: Arnold Toon Shader

CreativeFRV — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 05:27:38 GMT

And it came out completely transparent, so no white, no red... just the contour lines (SMH) this is just silly now, really? it defaults to invisible? I've no words.

Re: Arnold Toon Shader

CiroCardoso3v — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 09:45:53 GMT

Hope this can help you. Is like a 30 minute intro to Toon Shader

https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Exploring-Stylized-Looks-Arnold-Toon-Shader-3ds-Max-and-OSL-2021

Also, if you share that asset, I can quickly setup for you.

Re: Arnold Toon Shader

CreativeFRV — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:18:23 GMT

Thank you very much for the offer Ciro! I can post the max file here a bit later today... your insight would be great to have! - Frank