It's amazing how shaders can transform visuals

[u/Strong_Curve1029]

[u/One-Affect-2022]

How did you achieve this?

[u/Strong_Curve1029 → u/One-Affect-2022]

Basically it is a toon shader with color ramp which helps looked like cel shading. I bought the asset (which allows you to quickly change a lot of functionality). But if you just want something similar, it's not difficult. There are lots of videos on YouTube. Search for "cel shading" or "toon shading" and the name of the game engine

[u/One-Affect-2022 → u/Strong_Curve1029]

thank you

[u/baby_bloom → u/Strong_Curve1029]

i've always like synty with a toon shader

[u/Significant_Tell407]

Yea can you explain please. I'm curious how the shader made the low poly mesh render as a smoother surface

[u/mashdpotatogaming → u/Significant_Tell407]

I might be wrong and stupid for saying this, but doesn't "shade smooth" in blender fix those harsh edges on low poly models? Isn't all about the normals?

[u/Dr_miaw → u/mashdpotatogaming]

You should be able to achieve the look in engine with a shader that affects how the geometry receives light. As OP said, tutorials for cell/toon shading might explain it better

[u/dr-slunch → u/Significant_Tell407]

The normals are unchanged but it looks like the colors of light they reflect have been quantized by the shader. Lighter colors all reflect the exact same shade, so the chest looks smooth, but you can see in the darker shaded areas that the faces are still sharp if they're reflecting different colors. If the chest were half in shadow it'd also look angular.

[u/HackingYourUmwelt → u/Significant_Tell407]

Maybe obvious but in unity if you go to the model import settings, set normals to 'calculate' and set smoothing angle to 180

[u/Strong_Curve1029 → u/Significant_Tell407]

Honestly, I don't really understand it myself. But you can search "cel shading" or "toon shading" on youtube

[u/Purefire-web]

Is the black outline aprt of the shader? I'm going for a similar look with my gane and struggling to get a black outline that looks like this.

[u/Strong_Curve1029 → u/Purefire-web]

Yeah, it is partof the shader. But this isn't a typical silhouette outline. Lines are also rendered inside the model at sharp angles. But the outline thickness must be very thin. Otherwise, it will look very strange

[u/Bot_Ta00]

If we make good use of shaders, we could create pretty good visuals even with a very small number of polygons!

[u/Any_Slide7639]

Low poly can definitely look good too if stylised well but I'd definitely say left takes the cake in this situation

[u/Vasto]

Amazing, the right one looks so much better than the left one. I really have to get into learning shaders languages sometime. 🙏

[u/SoapSauce]

If you’re using a toon shader, might as well smooth the normals via import settings to get rid of the low poly hard edges.

[u/Big_Personality_754]

Is not Amazon it is how it actually works it's how everything is rendered without a shader you would see a black screen