Motion Media

finalToon R3.5 is a full blown True Line Renderer (TLR), with unparalleled line quality and rendering speed.  Cartoon or line rendering scenes that take a long time to render within 3ds Max, are lightning fast in finalToon R3.5!  Suddenly, you can render really fat outlines of an object without the wait and inaccurate dirty look of a shader based solution.

finalToon R3.5, being a TLR (true line renderer) doesn't mean that finalToon has to replace your favorite renderer to do shading or other special effects.  finalToon R3.5 is implemented as a true 3ds Max "Render Effect", and so you can enjoy all the great benefits of such an implementation!  You may adjust line styles in realtime without the need to re-render the whole scene over and over again. This is what we call "The Choice of Quality".  All shading and rendering is done with the production proven 3ds Max scanline renderer.  When the scanline pass is done, the finalToon line renderer "pops in" and takes over to produce one of the best line renderings available of today.  And even better - finalToon R3.5 perfectly supports finalRender® with all the advanced options, including GI rendering for cartoon style objects!

What's new in R3 ?

finalToon R3.5 accelerates all line renderings and enables you to render many more outlines and objects than before.  The line rendering algorithms have been worked over in this R3 release to perform much better, with increasing image quality.

New Line-Styles have been added and hatching offers now a whole new level of quality and control!

Support for special camera types has also been added, by implementing the revolutionary new fT-Outline shader, with its unique way of rendering outlines as a shader.

Please note, this feature list does not represent the complete set of features!  There are hundreds of other features that come with finalToon.  The ones listed below are the most prominent features:
 

• Revolutionary new fT-Outline shader
• Real 3D Motion-Blur Support with finalRender R3
• Special Camera Support: Dome Projection, Fisheye etc.
• Increased Speed
• Better Image Quality
• Different kinds of technical line styles
• Accurate anti-aliasing for high quality output
• 2D Effects like: Extended lines, Opacity and Thickness Pressure, Slash Pen ...
• 3D Effects for Thinner lines and/or opacity lines depending on distance
• Hatching to get a hand drawn look of the image
• Canvas Effect to simulate structured background material (Paper, Linen . . .)
• Save all your different line-style settings to share with others!
• Shadow Lines to see contours in dark shadow areas
• Noise effects like noise opacity, thickness etc.
• Edge Map to use any map to control the bump, color, thickness etc. of the lines
• Connected lines to get a continuity in the dotted lines all over the image
• Reflection/Refraction see accurate line rendering through glass or in a mirror
• Flash (swf) and Adobe Illustrator (ai) output
• Cartoon Shader to get the typical cartoon look
• Color model based on warm/cold color temperatures
• Global/local line style settings for using infinite different line styles in one scene
• Material converter for quickly converting the materials into finalToon materials
• Render Elements support for different line types like hidden lines, visible lines, etc.