Скачать или смотреть "Dance of the Spheres" - Inspired by Mœbius... :-)

After diving deep into Unreal Engine for two weeks, I took what I learned there about toonshaders and implemented it in Tooll3.

In Unreal, you have the postprocess material where you have access to all the render passes and information on the rendered image.
In Tooll, you get a depth pass by default from the RenderTarget node, but no normal pass and for good outlines and surface detail, both are needed.

So I first implemented a very simple render node that outputs the world normals and render it in a parallel pass.
Then I feed the rendered image, the depth- and the normal pass to my outline shader and apply a variable Laplacian kernel to depth and normals to find the sharp changes in direction and distance and then (optionally) combine the two results with the rendered image.


The start of the video shows the depth based outlines only, then I blend to the fully combined image. I always loved NPR rendering and already created a cellshader some time ago, so that is where the colours come from....

All the other effects are placed on top for a fun little exercise in toonshading :-)

Sound in Bitwig with #Synthmaster3 and some others.

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