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Why does the width scaling values under 0.4 (in aiToon Shader) affects opacity?

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jooheon
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Why does the width scaling values under 0.4 (in aiToon Shader) affects opacity?

I want to render my obj with a very thin line, but it seems that the edge width scaling value under 0.4 is rendered in gray color. Even on the Arnold website, where it explains how the edge width scaling works, shows that the color is faded out.


How do I render a thin black line with its full opacity in Arnold?6953-screenshot-5.png6952-screenshot-3.png


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alan.kingFCDLA
in reply to: jooheon

Hello John,

What I think is going on is that arnold is using a technique for very thin edges and contours that is similar to min_pixel_width on curves shapes (you can read about the technique here). The aiToon effect has a hard-coded minimum width of 0.5 pixels, which means that anything below that width will be clamped to a half pixel width, but become proportionally less visible as the width decreases. This was added to the toon shader to avoid aliasing artifacts like the dotted or jagged edges that you can see in the tips of the curves here:

6992-toon-packed-58sec-copy.png

In any case, as the width of the edge becomes thinner, it is expected that it would have less of an impact on the pixel's color. What would you rather expect to happen instead?

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madsd
in reply to: jooheon

You can inject a reverse distance to camera width and control the actual width in the distance so it "looks" like something, but you will be injecting thicker lines proportionally to the objects distance to camera.

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How can you do that?

what nodes should i use?

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lee_griggs
in reply to: jooheon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tQ9whQPQ_A

Lee Griggs
Arnold rendering specialist
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How to create a depth mask that scales directly depending on the distance from the camera. https://docs.arnoldrenderer.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=86806371 https://docs.arnoldrenderer.com/display/A5AFMUG/Shading+State https://docs.arnoldrenderer.com/display/A5AFMUG/Range #maya #arnoldrenderer

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