[The newest daily build of Corona]( https://forum.corona-renderer.com/ Chaos Corona 13 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Changelog #msg233420) comes with two new non-physical materials: Corona Toon Material - for giving objects a “posterized” look Corona Outline Material - for adding outlines around objec…

You are welcome, and in exchange thanks for such thorough testing with an aim toward real world usage! I can see the benefit of what you suggest regarding Ambient and Diffuse, and yes please if you could, do send that in via the Ideas Portal. I can’t think of a current magic trick to get around it o…

Hi, While there are definitely ways to control the toon and get results close to what you want, we have some ideas on how to improve the general control for toon. Stay tuned. [toon-control-example.jpg]

Ooooh, I like what Im seeing!! :smiley: So I should wait then to throw in some feature requests I suppose? Edit: Just mentioning wishes now that you teased me : when you are making some improvements, then I think it would be great if you can override any kind of colors made by shadows or shading s…

JoachimArt: Ooooh, I like what Im seeing!! :smiley: So I should wait then to throw in some feature requests I suppose? Glad to hear that! Yes please, we will try implementing some of the ideas first (like exclude GI, better ramp control for lit and unlit parts etc.) and then share (daily b…

Thank you thank you!!! I will definately keep an eye on the daily builds to participate in that! Just to explain what I meant with halftones, incase what I wrote is confuzing, here’s a mockup of one way to implement is which I think would have been awesome! [halftone_example.jpg]

[image] TomG: Just a quick note, to see if we are on the same page - the directionality for the Corona Light was to give hard shadows from a very large light that was intending to be like an “ambient” light to fill the scene in general. You can get hard banding and hard shadows from a e.g. a sph…

You’re welcome! Glad it helped :smiley:

FWIW, here’s a reddit post about an OSL hafltone shader in development (for Arnold) that I just stumbled upon, with some great examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/Maya/comments/1ltgj7y/spent_the_last_4_weeks_creating_a_halftone_osl/ I believe for this to work you need to access the renderer’s inter…

Those are some seriously cool example of OSL halftune usage. I think if the corona toon will first let you control ambience color, (meaning no forced ambience) and then also support OSL halftone, it could become an awesome toon render.

Don’t forget that for ideas like “halftone” etc. to add (or vote for) the suggestion on the Ideas Portal, https://chaoscorona.ideas.aha.io/ . Also, remember to keep suggestions separate - if you want halftone for Toon AND some other features, please post those as separate ideas, otherwise they can’t…

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On camera clipping, you mean this? https://forum.corona-renderer.com/ CoronaOutlineMtl + Camera Clipping Causes Black Areas #msg234804

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