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Some FilaToon Questions

COMIXIANTCOMIXIANT Posts: 128
edited April 29 in Daz Studio Discussion

Believe it or not I tried FilaToon for the first time today.  I've gotten my head around the shader for the most part, but the Rim controls don't appear to do anything, and I'm assuming those are how you control the black inking lines.  I also have no idea how to change the thickness of the main outline.

One final thing is the render settings.  I don't see any render settings for Filament, so I'm wondering how to increase the resolution of the shadows.

Any help much appreciated.

 

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 25,190

    No, Rim is not the outline, The outlines are created by using a Geoshell. There are render settings for filament. Shadows can be adjusted in the Filament Render Settings node, but are sometimes difficult to control. There are several threads in the forum dedicated to FilaToon. Please take a look at those, so we don't have to repeat everything here. Also, Jay Versluis has a video. Daz3D has a video tutorial. There are a couple useful product in the store for converting objects with Iray shaders to Filatoon.  V3D FilaToon Converter, Manager and Tools and Easy FilaToon. Each of those products has a forum thread to help uses with it, too.

  • COMIXIANTCOMIXIANT Posts: 128

    Cheers barbult.  I was intentionally avoiding the plugin threads since I didn't want to disrupt them with my noob questions.

    Yesterday was the first time I ever used FilaToon, so at the moment I'm just trying to get the very basics understood.  I did search for "Rim" on here, but the results are nothing but a bunch of random non-related threads where the letters "rim" have been pulled from the middle of other words, so searching was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

    To be honest I never even bothered searching for video tutorials, but I'll take a look today.  I would rather see some official documentation on it though, so if you have a link to a FilaToon thread (that is not plugin related), that woud be great and very much appreciated.

     

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 12,149
    edited April 30

    I suggest checking the first posts of this thread, as there's a description of the shader presets and the shader components: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/704951/anime-toons-and-filatoon-shader-q-a/p1

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  • COMIXIANTCOMIXIANT Posts: 128

    I've visited the first and second links you gave (and am currently around ten minutes in on the second one), but just wanted to let you know that both have answered the stuff that was puzzling me and I'm much better equipped to start tinkering now.

    Much appreciated, although I would still appreciate the link to the general (non plugin) FilaToon thread, because I can't find it anywhere.

     

  • COMIXIANTCOMIXIANT Posts: 128
    edited April 30

    Sorry Leana, seems we crossposted.  I'll check it out after completing the video, much appreciated.

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  • COMIXIANTCOMIXIANT Posts: 128

    Yes, that's the sort of thread I needed so I'll continue there, cheers!

     

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