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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / cartoon shading question

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Steverino
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2002 14:56
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The command goes:
SET CARTOON SHADING ON Object Number, Shade Image, Edge Image

The manual says, "The shading image and edge image require layout for the toon shading to work correctly." What does that mean exactly? What should those images look like? A small simple demo would be most welcome.
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Zero
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2002 15:50
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I think they are same as the textures, but edgemap with outlines bolded..
Shade image is a plain-color texture some dark and light parts highlighted.. I think.

In fact I have no idea.

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I'd really like the answer to this one as well.
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Steverino
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I was thinking the edgemap was probably something like what Zero describes, but think about the black outline of a cartoon character's cheek when he turns his head. The outline is always representing a different part of his face. I don't see how something that's basically a variation on a texture map could describe that.

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Zero
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Hmm.. good point. DBS should include some more information about cell shading and usage of this feature to the manual/help files.

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In fact I think that the manual needs more improvement than the software itself!!!

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Posted: 4th Oct 2002 16:55
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Hi guys,

The edge image file is used to give an almost "halo" like effect the object - it doesn't map to the actual mesh, just the outline of it (which is constantly changing) otherwise it'd look like chunky wireframe mode was on

The edge image really only needs to be a BMP file of 16x1 pixels in size and solid black.

For the shade image again create a similar size BMP and put 16 shades of a colour in it going across, these are the colours that will be used to "fill in" your cartoon. It doesn't have to be this size (or those colours) so experiement a bit with this one.

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Thanks, that should be enough to get us started.

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Posted: 6th Oct 2002 13:26
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Thanks rich

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