maya 8.5 toon shading problem

rooster

i've got a good few models (300k worth) in a scene that I want to render toon shaded, and I've got a toon shader applied to them (ramp material)

as soon as I put the viewport into hardware textured mode, maya dies on me. it's as if the toon shader is using a massive ammount of texture resources, even though there are no texture file nodes in the scene. can anyone explain that? why the scene would run perfectly fine either in smooth shaded, or in hardware textured without the toon shader applied. it seems definately connected to toon shader in hardware textured mode

any help much appreciated, cheers
roo

renderhjs

I am sorry as this wot help you with your problem,- but I wanted to share this related tutorial:
http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/maya/non_photo_realistic_shading/realistic_shading.asp
that uses a interesting approach in toon shading with maya

rooster

thanks, but I got the same problem with that shader setup.. it seems like maya is actually rendering a file texture for displaying the object in the viewport. and if it does that for every object in my scene then its no wonder things are going tits up..

the question is how to stop maya doing that, I don't get why it is

edit: like I open the uv window and right there is a baked texture- i've not done anything that should bake anything