I want to make 3d look like 2d.

I am a beginner Unity user, but I would like to have information on how to create or find a system to use for my current goal. Ive always disliked the 3d look of anime games, and I would really like a system or shader that would take your cameras current view of an object and its texture, and "illustrate" it to make it look and feel less 3d. Thanks.

 

Do you have any screenshots of an example? I'm not sure what you mean.

 

maybe somekind of toon shader effect?
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/search/toon shader

 

The shader would take a screenshot and pull various filters and other parameters to illustrate it and present htat view to the player.

For instance I would like something like this:



to go through the system and become this:


(Sorry for the potato quality, made this myself. It would have color and features, and would resemble a typical anime screenshot, like this: )

 

As I understand you're trying to get rid of the perspective.
Try to set the camera to orthographic mode.

Is that what you're looking for?


Edit:
One of the pictures didn't load... sorry.
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/12465
Check this one.

 

hi @greymanz
I am a technical artist who create shaders and rendering solutions.
For your question, I have an anime graphics experiment in the past that is very similar to your question.
here is the result.(please do not share it, because the background image is not our artwork!)

the shader of the character have 3 main "effect" which focus on making it looks like anime.
1.edge line
2.cel shading
3.special solution for face

if anyone is interested, I will post more detail here.

 

@colin299 please do. Also, was this based on anything the guilty gear xrd guys talked about?

 

Woah, thats exactly what I wanted! Please do work more on this!

 

@DaDarkDragon
Yes, i started this experiment after reading this post
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121144&page=10

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@greymanz
The model was rendered with 3 pass using 2 material
Material A - pass 1 (body color):

first pass = cel shading * texture color
cel shading means "normalVector dot directionLightVector"
while the result is larger than threshold, return the original texture color
while the result is smaller than threshold, return the original texture color * shadow color
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Material A - pass 2 (edge line):

second pass = render the mesh again using an additional pass
but cull front instead of cull back
enlarge it a little using normalVector's direction
return original texture color * edge color
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Material B -only pass (face):
render a transparent face mesh with linear world space depth offset for ZTest
that face mesh is placed inside the char's head, but render outside because of that ZTest depth offset

thats all about it, not some new technology but imo it renders very fast(we can have many char on mobile) with acceptable graphic result.

 

This presentation from GDC 2015 goes through some of the techniques that Arc System Works used to create the 2D style in Guilty Gear Xrd. It is a different method but it got some strong benefits and it can be expanded on.