How to use pwToon?

cmagee

Hello,

Warning. Beginner here.

I just bought and installed pwToon but I can't figure out how to use it. I thought it would show up in the Render Style dropdown, but that still is just Default and Cartoon.

I can see pwToon in my Content Library but I'm totally stumped in how to use it. I double-click it and nothing happens.

I try to drag it onto parts of my body. Nothing.

Huh???

Thanks for any help,

Charlie Magee

Richard Haseltine

pwToon is a shader, and it comes with shader presets that will apply it to anything instead of the material presets you will be used to, which apply certain settings to particular surfaces. Because it isn't tied to a particular set of surfaces on a particular object you have to add an extra step of telling the shader where it should apply itself, which you can do by using the Surface selection tool (Tools menu) to click on the items in your scene or by selecting the figures and props you want to change and then selecting their surfaces in the Surface pane (Window>Panes(tabs)>Surfaces). Once you have everything you want to use pwToon on ctrl-double-click the main preset, then choose Ignore for maps; optionally, next select some surfaces you want to use a particular preset from the resources folder on and do the ctrl-double-click with that. You can adjust settings in the Surfaces pane. When rendering, use the normal option not the toon option - the toon effect is supplied by the shader.

cmagee

Thanks for helping Richard. But I'm still not getting anywhere.

I want everything in the scene to be Toon shaded.

Where, and what, is the main preset? The character, the pwToon?

If I'm in the Surfaces(Color) tab and click or, or click any single item, I could a really long list of things to edit, none of which is pwToon, and none of which seem to allow ctrl-dbl-click.

Basically, you lost me.

cmagee

The Content Library only lets me send it to Files or Products. But then they only show up in Smart Content. If I switch to Surfaces, they're gone.

cmagee

Okay, I'm not sure what I did, but it's rendering as Toon. But now I can't find where to edit the toon settings. The scene is rendering as if the is a very low ambient light, but nothing from my other lights. My character is extremely dark. I've yanked my light setting to full intensity and nothing changed.

Mattymanx

http://www.poseworks.com/shaders/pwtoon/

You make adjustments to the shader on each of the surfaces.

Joe Cotter

cmagee, from your posts it looks like you are missing some fundamental concepts of how DS works. I don't mean that as a criticism, but it is important. I looked at how to answer your questions and realized I would have to answer too many fundamental questions on what it appears you are misunderstanding of the basic program. If this is the case, I would suggest taking the time to go through some of the DS tutorials at YouTube as a start.