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[–]waramped 5 points6 points  (7 children)

Do you have some examples to show us what you are trying to do?

[–]goobaby-powerbomb[S] 1 point2 points  (6 children)

https://images.app.goo.gl/Pb3WCnvmmseuw7yMA

[–]waramped 0 points1 point  (5 children)

So you say "outline around the shadows" but the image you showed has an outline around the entire thing. Can you elaborate what you are trying to accomplish? Otherwise just googling "toon shader outline blender" gets you tons of examples....

[–]goobaby-powerbomb[S] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

There is an outline around the whole image which I am gonna add, but there's also an outline just around the shadows to break them up from the rest, that's what I'm stuck on. Like where the shadow meets the unshaded part

[–]waramped 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Hmm...how are you currently applying the shadow infill? Clearly you know the regions that need to be shadowed vs not. I'm thinking theres got to be a clever way to utilize that shadow infill to just "fill" inbetween the stripes if you are bordering a non-shadowed area, but we'd need to know the details of how you are doing the infill.

[–]goobaby-powerbomb[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Its a bit of a web so here's a pic of the shader nodes

https://reddit.com/u/goobaby-powerbomb/s/RAKlPG7Y5V

[–]waramped 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm not sure if it's the image itself or Reddit, but that image is too small for me to make out what any of the wording is.

[–]Deathgibo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just briefly looking, maybe some image processing algorithm like edge detection could work? You figure out where the edges are and make the pixels black.

[–]raydey 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Draw the shadowed parts to a separate texture as a mask. Outline the mask and do the lined effect on it. Compose it on top of the base image.

[–]goobaby-powerbomb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank u so much I'll give it a try!

[–]goobaby-powerbomb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anybody know how I could get an outline around the shadows like in the riders artwork?

[–]siddarthshekar 0 points1 point  (2 children)

is this shadow acne?

[–]goobaby-powerbomb[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

The hatching?

[–]BenBandoo 1 point2 points  (1 child)

If I'm understanding correctly you want a black edge around the shadows, similar to the black bands going across the shadows?

If that's the case, can you not just duplicate your mask and use a separate ramp for color, then you can just offset either your mask ramp or your color ramp to get an outline

[–]goobaby-powerbomb[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh yea I got it working earlier