Toon! Pro is a cel shader and line renderer for Carrara. High quality anti-aliased lines, a powerful cel shader, and the ability to combine cel with traditional and even GI rendering makes Toon! Pro a must have tool for the digital cel artist.

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Toon! Pro Cel shader

The Toon! Pro Cel shader provide the cel look for objects in your Carrara scenes. It's accessed by clicking the popup next to the Top Shader in the shader tree and selecting Toon! Pro cel.

  1. Shadow/Highlight specifies at what point the illumination is enough for an object to be considered in Shadow or Highlight.
  2. Levels controls the number of steps in the illumination between shadow and it's normal color.
  3. Shadow Brightness controls how dark the shadow areas are as a percentage of the base color.

Toon! Pro renderer

The Toon! Pro render provides the lines for the cel look.

  1. Line Size controls the thickness of the line. The value is the radius of the line in pixels.
  2. Line controls the color and blend with the underlying color.
  3. Overdraw sets how far out of bounds the lines goes.
  4. Use Depth Cueing to thin the lines as they fade into the distance. The value slider controls how many inches in distance required to reduce the Line Size by 50%.
  5. Edge in degrees looks for sharp edges in your mesh and draws lines at those points too.
  6. The Backfaces Optimization sets whether or not Toon! Pro will draw lines on backfacing polygons and if it will use backfacing polygons to eliminate hidden lines. For most scenes this can safely be left on. If the Toon! Pro renderer is not drawing lines where you expect them or not removing hidden lines you expect it to, try turning this option off.
  7. Toon! Pro does antialiasing on the lines it draws by default, but for even smoother lines you can select Line Oversampling to increase the quality even further. Be advised that this will also increase Toon! Pro's memory usage.

Toon! Pro Override effect

The Toon! Pro Override effect, available on the Effects tab of the properties panel let's you override Line Effect set on the renderer's UI. You would use this if you wanted an object in the scene to not have the Toon! Pro lines.

How do I...

Install Toon! Pro?

Extract and copy the files to the extension directory.

For Carrara 4.0

On the PC, it is the Carrara Studio 4.0\Extensions directory. If you installed Carrara to the default location, this is C:\Program Files\Eovia\Carrara Studio 4.0\Extensions.

On the Mac, OS X.

  1. Open the Carrara 4 folder.
  2. Ctrl-click on the Carrara application and select Show Package Contents.
  3. In the newly opened Finder window, navigate to Contents\MacOS\Extensions.
  4. Extract the contents of the SIT and copy them there.

Enter my serial number?

After purchasing Toon! Pro you will be given a serial number. If you open a scene with Toon! Pro or add Toon! Pro to the scene, the Enter Serial Number window will display. Enter your serial number in the field provided and click OK to continue.

Get starting using Toon! Pro?

  1. Select File|New.
  2. Select Insert|Sphere.
  3. With the Sphere selected, switch to the Texture room.
  4. In the Top Shader, click the pop up the defaults to Multi Channel and select Toon! Pro Cel.
  5. Return to the Assemble room and select the Scene. Change the Background to Color and set the color to white.
  6. Switch to the Render room and change the Renderer to Toon! Pro. Change the Line Oversampling to 4x.
  7. Click Render and you're finished.

Tips and Tricks

  1. Toon! Pro uses the edges in the mesh to create lines. If you want a line in your image, it must be modeled that way in the mesh.
  2. Duplicate with symmetry doesn't always leave the surface normals in the right direction. If Toon! Pro is not rendering lines on a duplicated with symmetry mesh, try turning off the Backfaces Optimization or reversing the normals on the duplicate mesh.
  3. To make Toon! Pro Cel work with a layers list, create a new master shader and select Toon! Pro for the top most shader. Drag the layers list to the child slot of Toon! Pro Cel, then drag Toon! Pro Cel back to the original shader.

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Evaluation Mode

Toon! Pro supports an evaluation mode which allows you to try out Toon! Pro before purchasing it. When the Toon! Pro Enter Serial Number window is displayed, just click Cancel to go into evaluation mode. During evaluation mode, the Toon! Pro cel shader will only work for a limited amount of time before you need to close and reopen Carrara and the Toon! Pro renderer will display every other block without the Toon! Pro lines.

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Pricing

$39.95 US dollars for a single user license. The single user license includes the right to use the product with up to 5 render nodes using Carrara 4.0 Pro or eovia Chain. Pricing is also available for a render node site license for use with eovia Grid.

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