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Gnomes Games
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Posted: 25th Mar 2006 11:55
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I am making a game and i want to use cartoon shading but the problem is that my object is already textured and with differents textures ...

Why can i use this effect on a already textured object ??

Thanks

(sorry for my so bad english... )

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Gnomes Games
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Posted: 25th Mar 2006 20:15
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Nobody can answer ?

MY PC: Pentium II 400 Mhz/8 Mb 3d graphic card(only support 3d with 640*480 16Bit)/160 Mb Ram/6 GB HD/Win98
IT'S HORRIBLE
But ... DBPRO 5.9 !!!
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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 25th Mar 2006 20:16 Edited at: 25th Mar 2006 20:17
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Maybe if people could read your question, they would understand it.

PS. How did you get toon shading at all on that (by the sounds of it) pathetic computer?


At least farting ferrets are better than stinky stoats.
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Posted: 25th Mar 2006 20:51
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Agreed with NeX, if that's the system you want it to run on in your sig, the answer to how to use the effect is buy a different computer.
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GatorHex
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Posted: 25th Mar 2006 20:53 Edited at: 25th Mar 2006 20:59
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Its a hardware FX you graphics card needs to have it built in to its GPU chip.

SET CARTOON SHADING ON
This command will set the rendering method of the specified object. Otherwise known as toon shading, this
command will apply a carton style render to the object using a shading image and an edge image. The
shading image and edge image require layout for the toon shading to work correctly. Your video card must
have the ability to create this hardware effect.

SYNTAX
SET CARTOON SHADING ON Object Number, Shade Image, Edge Image

...but thinking about if you want to make a game like Parapa da Rappa you could just texture images to flat plains and set one of the colours to alpha invisible so it looks see through (assuming that old 3D card u got support alpha channel)
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Posted: 25th Mar 2006 21:16
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I am using an other computer now and cartoon shading run on it..

But does someone know how i can use this fabulous cartoon shading effect whith a pre-textured object ???

MY PC: Pentium II 400 Mhz/8 Mb 3d graphic card(only support 3d with 640*480 16Bit)/160 Mb Ram/6 GB HD/Win98
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You can't use it with a pre-textured object, since it takes it out of the usual fixed-function pipeline and runs it down the shader pipeline. Meaning that any textures or lighting that you had set up before will not work using a shader. You have to apply the texture through the shader. If you want a good shader for doing that, check out PrestonC's cel shader, it's in the ultimate shader thread. Near the end of that thread is a version I modified to add in control over stroke thickness, might help out. There's also plenty of info in there about how to use it.
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Posted: 21st Apr 2006 19:20 Edited at: 21st Apr 2006 19:22
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@Catalyst:
Ok i downloaded the .fx file and it run in a simple program:


but it bug in my program !


I load the same model,with the same code,on the same computer !!

Can you help me...

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if someone use the cartoon shading effect of catalyst,can you tell me what's kind of problem it could be ?

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Posted: 22nd Apr 2006 15:16
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ok that are 2 big gif files. Please use jpg's with a smaller resolution.
Maybe 800x600 or 640x480.


- Thanks

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Gnomes Games
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@jack
sorry...the next time i will use jpg's...
heu.. can someone answer to my question ?

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Post your code.

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Posted: 23rd Apr 2006 20:08 Edited at: 23rd Apr 2006 20:09
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ok here the code whitch doesn't run:


and here the code whitch run:


(it's the same code !!)

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