RealToon (An AAA Toon/Anime Shader and Stylized)

Thanks for the reply and recommendation. I just noticed the new Sequence support in a blog so trying to give that a go.

I worked out why everything was so white. Somehow all the light sources in the scene got set to 1000 intensity. I don't *think" I did anything that should result in that, but I did run some of the scripts that came with the instructions etc. I am wondering if something in the project got the script confused. Not sure. Will see if I can repeat (hopefully not!)

But the project has some strange unrelated behavior, so I am in the painful process of trying to drag all the assets from an old project to a new clear project. Tedious. (The lights in the scene flicker on and off as I point the camera around in the scene, making it painful to adjust things like lighting. I fear I "half converted" to HDRP, and its got itself in a knot.

But I have got things basically working, with shadows etc. I am checking out the latest blog to see if I should change my project around to follow its standards before doing a bulk move of all my VRoid characters over to the new shader. I previously had problems with using HDRP as some of the old assets from the asset store (everything turned pink!). We will see how it goes with a smaller test.

Backed vs realtime... still learning. I would rather do everything real time, but again assets I have purchased were baked. I am trying to work out still can I make them all real time so I can get the lighting correct in scenes without having to rebake.

But, I am making progress, I have created some scenes with much better shadows from tree leaves falling on the character. But I am still working out how to do lighting to get the effects I want. I just hit so many road bumps I end up spending a lot of time on them instead of getting on with the real project (sigh).

 

Hi, in HDRP there is a global override.
The cause of the white is when the object is too dark and low intensity light it will try to increase exposure.

This is the cause of the Exposure post processing in auto mode.

See the video tutorial i made on how to get the lighting right.

That's for HDRP.

 

Thanks. I am just using the standard rendering pipeline in my case. Last time I tried to upgrade the project to HDRP, most of the assets (many are old) I had purchased form the Asset Store turned pink. If I understand, its because the shaders on the objects don't support HDRP (or something like that). So I gave up and decided to stick with the standard render pipeline.

In my case, when I brought up the lighting window, I found all the lights in the scene had their intensity set to 1000. I have no idea why. But when I set them all back to 1 the scene came good again. Well, sort of "good". In scene mode (not play mode), as I move around the scene it looks like it is flickering between using the lights and not using the lights. Very annoying. (Hopefully the animated gif I attached works.)

 

Is there any errors on the console?
Send it to me if there is.

Try to create a new hdrp project just for testing purpose.

Sometimes updating the project from standard to urp or hdrp causes some unwanted behaviour because of some assets that might not be compatible and may cause to stop compiling the shaders and script.

Reinstalling the HDRP Package files after updating your project to HDRP might fix it.

 

I found a bug with De Nor Sob Outline works:


As you can see that when the two geometries are close to each other then instead of their outlines adding up, they instead disappear(Maybe not clearly visible here, but it certainly does disappear in that region)

It certainly isn't a big issue though, but I thought I should point it out if a bug fix is possible

(I'm not using material outline, The material on the left is standard Lit(HDRP), on the right its using a Real toon shader without outline)

 

One more thing is there a reason we can't use Depth/Normal based outline and Sobel outline together,
Once I enable Sobel and configure it, I lose depth-based outline(At least it seems so):
Before:

After:

 

Also, it would be helpful to have an offset value to sobel outline as you can see that it doesn't look that great with normal shading, it would be helpful to decide the cut-off point where the effect starts considering the shading as dark

 

Hi Ruchir,
You can mix the two, there is an option under "Settings"
Enable "Mix Depth-Normal And Sobel Outline".

 

You can adjust it,
Just adjust the "Threshold".
For more control adjust the "White Threshold" and "Black Threshold".

 

Is the material on RealToon is transparent?
Besure the ZWrite is On.

 

It's not transparent.
Where do I modify the ZWrite property?

 

At the very bottom of the realtoon inspector.

 

It's turned on
(Btw it's a post process effect, so it should really matter if it was transparent in this case )

 

I encountered a few more problems with the outline system.

1) Post-Process outline isn't affected by Fog

2) Traditional outline has a lot of blending artifacts:



Hardly visible inside cloud or Fog :

 

Also, please create a discord community, it would be good to have few people that know about toon shading and can help others get started with it, share tips and tricks, etc.

 

One last feature request will be to have a layer mask to filter which objects are affected.
(For my example tree leaves look a bit overwhelming when outline is enabled in some cases)





Although after decreasing the outline width, it does look amazing but would love to have some kind of filtering option:

 

Hi,

For DeNorSob Outline post processing:
For depth-normal outline it does not affect the fog and clouds and it only affect objects but for Sobel Outline it does all because it affects all the screen.

About the Traditional,
I explained it on an included HDRP text file about the traditional outline on the fog + clouds.
The file name is "Please read before you unpack or import.txt", i recommend you to read it.

I'm sure you forgot to read it.

 

You can use unity layer masking.
Which layer you want the Post Processing to affect.

You can try to use the on shader "Screen Space Outline",
It will only affect the object it self.

 

I already planned to create a discord and it will be available soon.

 

I tried to replicate yours and this is the result.
It is working fine.

 

For that artifact to happen, try having both the geometries not touch each other and have them on the same depth
So position should be somewhat like this: (0, 0, 0) and (1.1, 0, 0)
For example my values were ( 1.970388, 0, 0) and (3, 0, 0) and outline width of 17.02 in the post process

 

Hi, i followed yours and now i see.
I found what caused it, it is actually the Traditional Outline.
if you switch to Screen Space Outline or Remove Outline (On Shader).
It will not cause that gap.

This might be the depth problem on the Outline Pass (Custom Pass).
The same problem as the far fog and clouds.
Take note, custom pass can't be batch.

It is recommend to use RealToon's Screen Space Outline, DeNorSob Outline or 3rd party outline or script based outline.

 

Hello,

I have encountered some problems when swapping the texture for vroid model.
I have used the swap tool.
Some of the shaders can properly swapped successfully to RealToon.
But the eye parts on the face can't be changed properly.
I am using URP 11.

Also for the pants, the shader can be swapped properly, but it has no transparent function. (The transparent parts become black color)
Do I miss anythings?

Please help, thanks a lot.

 

Hi,
If the tool/script does not properly swapped it.
Just select all the materials of your vroid model then change the shader to RealToon Shader.
for transparent materials just enable "Transparent Mode".

 

quick question, I am looking to animate the eyes to make the puples change size.
to do this I am going to change the diffuse texture. how can I access that in a script ?
renderer.materail.texture_color= image[1] is a basic example to what I am doing I just need exact syntax .

 

Hi, here's the line you need:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Material.SetTexture.html

The variable for main texture is "_MainTex".

 

Hello,

Is there any tutorial about realtoon on vroid?
I searched for a long time and wouldn't find one.....
I tried to do it in unity and never make the vroid model as nice as you show in the those demo video....

 

thanks

 

Hi,
May i know what render pipeline is your project is?
Built-in/BiRP? URP? Or HDRP?

Have you tried to watch the RealToon tutorials?

 

I used URP.
I have watched those videos, but it seems like that those video may not match my needs as I can't find a tutorial video about vroid model with realtoon shader.

 

Hi, thanks for the info.
All of those tutorials can also be applied to VRoid.
Send me an email support at mjqstudioworks@gmail.com and send some screenshot of your model so that i can help you to achieve it.

 

there is one strange shadow when using realtoon on environment(other shaders didn't have it), it seems like the shadow of whole scene, and it exist even i closed every objs except the ground. how to remove it ?

 

Hi, wechat_os_Qy012wT1Zl8HVKPhkD9tPKRps

That might be the RealTime shadow.
Try to adjust the 'Reduce Shadow',
This option will reduce realtime shadow artifacts.

What render pipeline is your project using?
Built-in/BiRP? URP? Or HDRP?

Take note that RealToon shader receives and cast shadow.
If your object dont need use RealTime shadow, just enable 'Disable Cast Shadow' and hide shadow.

 

I recently purchased this shader and any object that uses it is unselectable in scene view. I see there is a statement that this is a known bug that was "fixed" but it is not fixed for me. Is there a way to fix this?

 

Hi cantgetno197,

It only occurrs on a plane object or quad face.

This is the current problem on URP and HDRP when a custom pass is culled front.
The outline on the shader is custom pass and culled front.
This will cause, can't select front, only the back.

If you use "Screen Space Outline" or "Remove Outline" you can select the front of the plane object, if you use the "Traditional Outline" the front of the plane object can't be selected and you can select it on the opposite side or back side.

 

Hi everyone, Reminder.
Next RealToon update is 5.0.9
Staytuned for the announcement/info about it.

 

Hi everyone,
RealToon HDRP version is working properly on HDRP 12 (Unity 2021.2)
RealToon HDRP and DLSS as an alternative AA,
looks clean.

(Image: Unity 2021.2.b1 - DXR/RayTracing)

 

Hi! I'm new to using this asset. I'm really interested in how this image was created:



Specifically the left half - how did you get the balls of light so look like this? And how does the floor almost look like water? Perhaps these parts of the image weren't done with the RealToon asset? If so, what was used - it looks really cool and I want to recreate something similar.

Any help is very much appreciated! Thanks

 

Hi, pkamat95
On that image it uses RealToon HDRP (DXR/RayTracing mode).

About the balls, it uses the RealToon's SelfLit (Emission) with masking.

The floor uses Screen Space Reflection (Raytracing)

There is also a Screen Space Global Illumination(Raytracing) present on the scene, so the emission of the balls bounce to any near surfaces.

 

Hi, is it possible to also use vertex color alpha for transparency opacity?
I use this for particle system and it'd be great if it do this

Cheers

 

Hi Crouching-Tuna,
Currently it is not possble and vertex color is used for coloring the object, adjusting the outline width, self shadow threshold and smooth object normal.

You can try to use Mask Transparency.

 

Has anyone had any luck with Realtoon on URP 12? I just attempted it this morning and everything is showing up black. I haven't had much time to experiment beyond flipping the culling settings. I'll keep experimenting, but may just hang at URP 11 since I've got it working for now.

 

Hi oik976,
About URP 12 support, i already fixed it and complete and i will be available on the upcoming patch #2, this also includes HDRP 12 support.
Staytuned for the release.

 

Thanks for the great news, and your hard work. I really appreciate it.

 

Hi,

How do I make your shader work for single pass rendering(XR VR)?

Usually I can set some codes from the link below and it will work for custom shaders, but I couldn't find where to put those in your shader file.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SinglePassInstancing.html

Many thanks,
Gabriel.

 

Hi,
May i know what rendering pipeline is your project.

 

Hi everyone,
Here's another RealToon HDRP demo but with DLSS.
Download and try it, [PC Only].
https://bit.ly/3rl5OX1

*AMD FSR will be added soon once unity add it to the next unity 2021.2.0 beta.

 

Hi MJQStudioWorks,

Looking forward to 5.0.9 that will introduce a lite mode for URP. Assuming this is geared more towards mobile? Is it mainly for performance increases for mobile?

Thanks!

 

Yes, and for lower end PC/Device.
There might be some features that will not be available on the lite mode.

 

Hello,

Sorry maybe I missed something but is there somewhere a simple guide how I can install and set the shaders in the project?

Thanks in advance!