RealToon (An AAA Toon/Anime Shader and Stylized)

Hi, if you are using URP,
URP 14, Supports Forward+ and it allows you to use more lights and fast.

About Deferred support, I'm still doing some experiments or test about it.

 

I was apparently wrong about this. I was doing some stuff under-the-hood that I forgot about completely and that's what was causing this false result to show up in my testing. I should've done my tests in an empty project.

There's only the issue of it going through the terrain, the rest with the simple quads was on me, sorry if I led you down the wrong road or wasted your time.

 

Hello, we have a strange problem with an M1 device:

What could it be?

Thank you

 

Code (CSharp):

1. Unity: 2023.1.0a25.2386.4619
2. TVE: 8.1
3. RP: URP 15.0.3

Upon installing in a brand new project (well, the URP sample scene template), and importing the package for URP 14+ support, the following occurs:

 

lilToon

 

Is there a URP Lite version? or are there settings that make URP more mobile performant? Not having any particular issues I just want to know if it exists or not.

 

Hi ! I'm trying to setup a Realtoon material in a DOTS project but I've encountered two errors after changing the target compilation to 4.5 :

- Shader error in 'Universal Render Pipeline/RealToon/Version 5/Default/Default': syntax error: unexpected token ',' at Core/URP/RT_URP_Core.hlsl(105) (on d3d11)
- Shader error in 'Universal Render Pipeline/RealToon/Version 5/Default/Default': undeclared identifier 'UNITY_ACCESS_DOTS_INSTANCED_PROP_FROM_MACRO' at Core/URP/RT_URP_Core.hlsl(105) (on d3d11)

The material works fine on a gameobject but it turns to pink when used on an entity.
Do you have any suggestion that could help ?
Thank you !

Here's
the project settings just in case :
Unity : 2022.2.4f1
URP : 14.0.5
Realtoon : v5.0.8p7
Entities : 1.0.0-pre.15
Entites Graphics : 1.0.0-pre.15

 

Hi, We're currently using Real Toon on a project, primarily the DeNorSob Outline. I saw an earlier post asking about masking outlines and you had replied that the "DeNorSob Outline can't be mask and it is fullscreen".

We're having an issue where vegetation (tree leaves, etc) doesn't match the look we'd like with the outlines and were hoping there may be a way to mask out certain materials from the DeNorSob Outline effect. I'm just writing to see if there has been any more recent thought about this, or if anyone else has come up with a way to address it?
Thanks

 

2021.3.19f1 / HDRP / 5.0.8p7
Compilation error occurs

 

Hi Sorry for the late reply.
This error caused by the DeNorSob,
I'm still fixing this error for URP 14.
For now, delete the "DeNorSob" folder.

 

Hi,
RealToon URP can be use on mobile.
A lite version of RealToon URP is still on the works.

 

Hi, sorry for the late reply.
thank you for reporting this
and sending the info's.
I'll check this out.

 

Hi sorry for the late reply.
about the problem and question.
this only happens on Transparent materials.
As of now I'm still finding ways to Mask it or at least not include the transparent.

 

Hi sorry for the late reply.
This is currently a problem on M1.
I'm still figuring it out what caused that.
It might be the Outline.Feature, you can try to disable the outline feature and use a Screen Space Outline.

 

I think you missed the message...
Is it known issue?

 

Hi, I'm not sure if you sent an email.

 

Hi, i already fixed this and it will be available on the next patch 8
If you need the fix now, here's what you do:

Open the RT_HDRP_RT_ForwPas.hlsl
Then find _RaytracingRayBias and change it to _RayTracingRayBias

Open the file RT_HDRP_Core.hlsl
Then find INDIRECTDIFFUSEMODE_RAYTRACE and change it to INDIRECTDIFFUSEMODE_RAY_TRACED

(RealToon HDRP)

 

Any rough estimate yet when this will be worked on? And would a potential solution still be compatible with 2020.3 and URP 10.9? The see-through terrain bug is a problem, and are there any plans to support cut-out transparency?

(Any info on what's happening next with the DeNorSob Outline would be welcome)

 

Hi there,

I have trouble getting the correct lighting/shadow on my character. When moving from a bright area under the directional sun light into a shadowed area the brightness of the character doesn't seem to change whatsoever.



Values on the hair for example is similar in both cases. I'm using HDRP and RTX (SSGI + SSR + Raytraced shadow).

Thanks in advance.

 

I found the problem is that RealToon only considers 1 directional light for lighting. And the one RealToon picks is not necessarily the brightest, main light.

I have 1 directional sun light that casts shadow and 1 weak, fill directional light that does not cast shadow to add atmosphere to the scene. RealToon is always using the weak fill light to compute the values. So the brightness does not change when I move from bright sunlight into the shadow.

 

Hi, sorry for the late reply, DeNorSob is still on improving stage until now and fixing some errors on the newer URP version.

Yes the see through is the problem on a Transparent object.
Cutout is already supported.

Have you tried to use the Sobel Outline feature?
On the DeNorSob.

The default used outline is Depth-Normal Outline Feature.

 

Hi eliphat,
It looks like that because the realtime shadow on the Character is not enabled or the character does not recieved shadows.

 

Currently only 1 directional light supported and will use the brightest directional light.
Is it possible for you to send a video recorded?
Send by message here or email.

 

Hello, I've been trying to extend RealToon (URP 12, Unity 2021.3.16f1) to handle dissolve. I've implemented dissolve for all the passes, but unfortunately it only works when the Render Queue is AlphaTest+1 and above (2501 and above). It also seems that outline isn't working properly for a value of AlphaTest and below in the Render Queue.


Dissolve when Render Queue = Geometry (2000) - No outline is shown.
Dissolve when Render Queue = AlphaTest+1(2501) - Outline is shown.

I'm just using a simple dissolve and calling clip on the values I calculate. I do it in every pass. Would you happen to know if I'm perhaps missing something?

 

I thought you told me before that cutout doesn't work with the Depth Normals feature? This is what I meant by cutout:

I'm using Sobel as well for outlines, but I still need to use the Depth Normals feature on some objects, in particular behind cutout objects that are creating squares around them.

See the square lines around the ivy leaves in this test screenshot:


If I turn off the Depth Normals feature everything works fine, but then I lose all of the nice lines drawn on the rock wall behind it (except those created by Sobel). Is there anything I could do to the ivy/other shaders that would avoid this problem?

For the grass and tree leaves I simply render them on a layer the Depth Normals feature doesn't use and the square outlines go away, but that means any lines created behind them go right through them as if they aren't there (see the bottom right of the wall). I can work around this problem for most objects, but for things like the ivy I cannot:

 

Hi,

Here is a minimal reproducer, project Assets, Packages and Settings in

bug-repro-realtoon-lighting.zip

. The video is in the zip named by date-time.

Setup:
100K lux directional sun light, shadow map on.
5K lux directional fill light, shadow map off.
Both lights are cast in straight -Y direction.
A plane (shadow caster) with HDRP default material at Y = 5.
The target is a cube with RealToon material at (0, 0, 0).

In the attached video:
1. Move the plane (shadow caster) in and out, nothing changes.
2. With the plane active, toggle the fill light. See that the cube goes dark with the fill light off (expected, as the sun light is blocked by the plane).
3. Disable the plane. Toggle the fill light. The cube goes brighter with the fill light off. This strongly indicates that RealToon is only catching the weak fill light instead of the main sun light. When the fill light is turned off, RealToon catches the sun light, which makes the object brighter.
4. With the fill light on, toggle the sun light. Nothing changes.

Preview of the setup:


Thank you for taking the time.

 

Hi thanks for sharing a project sample and video,
I got the project but i request you to remove the bug-repro-realtoon-lighting.zip it includes the asset.
I'll look into the project you gave and check it/troubleshoot it.

 

Sorry as I did not notice the licensing problem. I have edited the post and removed the attachment.

 

Hi sorry for the late reply, you can do a dissolve using the Cutout feature.
Just enable the Transparent Mode the enable Cutout under the Enable/Disable Feature
then enable Use Secondary Cutout Only Assign a Texture in the Secondary Cutout.
For glow edge, enable Enable Glow Edge.

 

Hi sorry for the late reply,

- For example this one:
This uses the DeNorSob and the material object is Cutout enabled.
But it only uses the Depth not with Normals it is zero out.
The normals can't be cutout.


- To prevent see through on transparent objects, change the "When To Insert" to "Before Rendering Transparent"
Take note Transparent will not have Outlines, only the Cutouts and Opaque.

 

Thank you, thank you for reporting this one, it should use the highest value light, as check it now it uses the lowest it is weird and why it is like that.
Have you tried to use light layers?

I'll look into this and fix it and improve it more.

 

I wasn't using light layers before this problem. Now I used light layers to work around it -- I excluded the fill light from RealToon characters and push the 'highlight color power' and 'environmental lighting intensity' values up to compensate for the light.

 

Any updates on the DOTS compile issue?

 

Thanks for the advice, and pointing me in the right direction.

I knew about both of those options, but I wasn't happy with either. I would either lose the nice lines on rugged surfaces like the rock wall, or I'd have to put outlines directly onto the textures for things like ivy instead of using the nice outline renderer.

So I tried probably a dozen different solutions, and settled on a mix of two. I'll write them down here in case anyone runs into the same issue.

The simplest part was to use the URP Normals Texture instead of the "Hidden/Internal-DepthNormalsTexture" :

I commented out

Code (CSharp):

1. //drawSettings.overrideMaterial = depthNormalsMaterial;

in the DepthNormalsFeature and added

Code (CSharp):

1. #include "Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/ShaderLibrary/DeclareNormalsTexture.hlsl"

to the DeNorSobOutline shader. Then replaced these two sections:

Code (CSharp):

1.     //float3 DecodeNormal(float4 enc)
2.     float3 DecodeNormal(float3 enc)

Code (CSharp):

1.         /*float3 normalData0 = DecodeNormal(SAMPLE_TEXTURE2D(_CameraDepthNormalsTexture, sampler_CameraDepthNormalsTexture, bottomLeftUV));
2.         float3 normalData1 = DecodeNormal(SAMPLE_TEXTURE2D(_CameraDepthNormalsTexture, sampler_CameraDepthNormalsTexture, topRightUV));
3.         float3 normalData2 = DecodeNormal(SAMPLE_TEXTURE2D(_CameraDepthNormalsTexture, sampler_CameraDepthNormalsTexture, bottomRightUV));
4.         float3 normalData3 = DecodeNormal(SAMPLE_TEXTURE2D(_CameraDepthNormalsTexture, sampler_CameraDepthNormalsTexture, topLeftUV));*/
5.         float3 normalData0 = DecodeNormal(SampleSceneNormals(bottomLeftUV));
6.         float3 normalData1 = DecodeNormal(SampleSceneNormals(topRightUV));
7.         float3 normalData2 = DecodeNormal(SampleSceneNormals(bottomRightUV));
8.         float3 normalData3 = DecodeNormal(SampleSceneNormals(topLeftUV));

It's not quite as nice as the other DepthNormal shader (I think it's either missing depth information, or the DecodeNormal method needs to be adjusted?) BUT it uses the DepthNormals pass on every individual material, which means alpha cutouts work with it.

The second method I used was a bit trickier. I added a custom pass to every one of my shaders with the following flag:

Code (CSharp):

1. Tags { "LightMode" = "DepthThreshold" }

and then changed the shader tag in the feature:

Code (CSharp):

1.             //ShaderTagId m_ShaderTagId = new ShaderTagId("DepthOnly");
2.             ShaderTagId m_ShaderTagId = new ShaderTagId("DepthThreshold");

Every single material was given a _DepthThresholdRatio 0..1 property, and the pass returned that value to the red channel of a texture. Then in the DeNorSobOutline shader I can manipulate how strong the depth based outlines should be on an individual material basis:

Code (CSharp):

1.         float edgeDepth = sqrt(pow(depthDerivative0, 2.0) + pow(depthDerivative1, 2.0)) * 100;
2.         //edgeDepth = edgeDepth > (depth0 * (_DepthThreshold * 0.01)) ? 1 : 0;
3.  
4.         float depthThresholdRatio = SAMPLE_TEXTURE2D(_CameraDepthNormalsTexture, sampler_CameraDepthNormalsTexture, uv).r;
5.         edgeDepth = edgeDepth > (depth0 * (lerp(_DepthThreshold, _DepthThresholdMin, depthThresholdRatio) * 0.01)) ? 1 : 0;

This allows for an incredible amount of control over exactly how strong I want the outlines to be on every individual object, it was definitely worth the extra work.

There's still the problem with unity terrain not ever writing to the texture, and so outlines go through the ground, just like with the original Depth Normals feature, but I'm trying to work around that by changing the DepthThresholdRatio at the base of anything touching the terrain.

 

Hi Thank you for this,
I'll look into this and see what i can do more.

 

Hi, i'm still checking this,
It seems unity did some changes again on URP 14 DOTS.

 

Using 2021.3 with SRP and point lights. Anything that is a part of the environment, they all seem to flicker based on where the camera is looking. The issue still persists it seems. I want outlines in the static objects around the environment as well. Please advise.

This issue only occurs at runtime and not in the editor.

 

Hi, do you have any updates regarding support for deferred rendering path?

 

Hi, as of now none yet, but forward plus is already supported on RealToon URP.

 

Ok thanks. I was asking a "global snow" asset was released for URP which would have been perfect for my project but it only supports deferred.

 

Is there a way to adjust RealToon`s shader settings based on distance from the camera? Kind of like LOD, I want to be able to turn off the shader`s outline when the camera is further away to save on performance.

 

Hello, MJQStudioWorks.
I want to use two Self Lit by duplicating Self Lit. I am wondering if this is possible. I want to use this to recreate several decal effects.

 

Turn off 'Depth Priming' from Renderer Settings and It will do.

 

Hello.
Can you please update RealToon to support 'Perspective corrected' MatCap?

*It is equivalent to UTS(Unity toon shader)'s MatCap Camera Mode: Perspective.


Cheers.

 

I think on top of that, RealToon would be really cool if it had multiple Matcap color blending modes like UTS.

 

Wow, thanks! Why does it do that though when it is enabled?

 

Any update about texture layers?

 

Hello, really enjoying the asset. Thank you. I am running into compile errors when I enable Raytracing (RT GI or Reflection) using Unity 2020.3.34f1 and HDRP 10.10.1 that read:

d3d12: Couldn't bind a global Compute Buffer in a Ray Tracing Shader from "HDRP/RealToon/Version 5/Default". Compute Buffer "_EnvLightDatasRT" was not set.

Attached a screenshot. Any help with this? Thanks

 

Hi, sorry for the late reply,
What RealToon HDRP Package did you unpack?

 

Hi, sorry for the late reply,
About the texture layers, no update yet still on the process of experimenting it.