Help: Cell Shading; Contour lines.

Kazakaza

I need some help, with a problem i got. For the following head model, i used falloff map, with a mental ray contour line. Now i have some unwated contour lines around the place. What i want is a generic manga/anime effect. with haveing a outling only on the sides. Can anyone tell me what is wrong?






Heres the wirefram of the head model.




Heres the render results


ps: not sure, if this is the right place to post on. Am new.

Eric Chadwick

3ds Max? Would help people to know the version too.

Have you tried the Ink 'n Paint material? Help file is, umm, helpful.

Kazakaza

3ds max 2010. Ye i tried Ink n paint, the results were worst. or maybe it just i dont know how to use it yet. but i guess i would have to try again later on.

Neox

did you try using onw smothinggroup for the whole thing? other than that... just make it rounder and see what happens then

cryrid

What i want is a generic manga/anime effect. with haveing a outling only on the sides.

I'm not sure how it handles in 3DS, but in SI Mental Ray's Ink/Toon shader gives two options for ink boundaries that are on by default: silhouette and interior. Checking the latter off gives a result that sounds like what you want. Perhaps the Ink 'n Paint material in Max has a similar option.

Edit: Looks like it does. Turn everything but Outline off?


Left: Rendering the outline only
http://www.3dmax-tutorials.com/Ink_n_Paint_Material.html

Kazakaza

Thank you . I will try the suggested later on.

Kazakaza

Yay sucess. Thank you so much