Which one gives the best Cel-Shaded look? It's very hard to see the examples that aren't images

why don't these work for Animatronics?

I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I followed the steps very carefully. And I still don't get any different textures on the model I'm working with.

hey can u make cellshade one or can u create customones?

it depends on the full mat setup

1. you gotta be using vertexlitgeneric (for the above examples that's what I used)
2. your material needs to use phong and have phong set to 1

im having issues with the textures. i have a map with ambient and im turning the model im using white, i add the $lightwarptexture and it doesnt work when i add it in, just stays white

As a sidenote, using the inverted texture as a cubemap helped me fix broken cubemaps.

Yay! I can now make a drug like state poster!

there's a bit of an added difficulty, and that's the fact that my preview images for these use the lightwarps on completely white textures, so you'd need to do something like mat_fullbright 2 as well

These could be great for different types of scenarios! Like let's say you want to make a scene where a character is using some sort of heat sensing deivce like a thermal imaging camera or the like. The spectrum lightwarp, with a tad bit of tweaking, could really help bring life into this type of scene. These just have so much potential!

incrediblt interesting

well this time i'm sure auto save will be more useful thank you :b

Good job

good plan

@Landy the key with these I'm finding, is to play with using map lights effectively with them to create effects. One of the reasons map lighting is very often neglected in SFM is because it's not dynamic without recompiles, and can cause pop ins with models. I'm experimenting myself with good ways to use both types of lighting together to use these effects

Man, I wish lightwarps worked with the SFM projected lights. Sadly at the moment they're restricted to the map's lighting.

These still look wonderful, very good job with them!

Thank you so much for sharing this! Can't wait to mess with it

Why textures?! I seem to have a curse with these things. As you know, there is a risk in retexturing a model. I somehow always find a way to mess it up, then breaking the model in the process, and then spending 3 hours trying to fix it...That's why I hate textures...

Reminds me of halo reach

Ohh, this is cool.

Hm...
Yeah agree with that

There's plenty of ways, Anthony. For example, Not only could you apply them to other models, but you could use these lightwarps as reference for other textures you're making yourself. Imagine the possibilities.

I don't really see how you can use this

Mom I'm scared.

O3O 👌

I can see how it could be useful.

hi Velikhi

1 - some of this is done on purpose, like the posterised one is a flat transition, and the closed one looks like a narrow doorway. Some others in the screenshots is image compression

2 - this probably isn't a good method of doing that. I don't know much about cubemaps at the moment. But yeah a silly comment really

3 - that's why I left scout's face normal. These materials aren't really that much, and are often completely unnoticable in SFM (because most people use darkmaps and darkvoid anyway)

A couple of things:
1) As great as this lightwarp looks, it seems that it has some gradient separation issues. May want to smoothen them out, if possible.
2) I am still testing it, but _rt_camera seems to dominate over all other textures for the material, usually works for flat surfaces. I am trying to figure out how to make an animated cubemap or rt camera, but so far, these knuckleheads on the forums are not giving it a chance to think about.
3) Mind displaying it on other models, or those that dont utilize white color. It would just be much more fair to judge. On top of that, can you try adding alpha to some and seeing how it behaves with it?

Another neat trick to try out:
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create an rt camera in your shot, and set the lightwarp texture to _rt_camera and you get a dynamic lightwarp! not sure how useful it is, but it works. Go try that out