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Version 1.1 now available for Blender 5.x!
Cool Magic Shader is an addon for Blender that allows you to quickly setup materials, outlines and lights in your project to be able to seamlessly switch between realistic and toon render mode.
The addon package is composed of the addon file, a complete PDF documentation and a sample Blender project.
Cool Magic Shader is composed of 2 main resources:
- The addon itself is located in the "Cool Addons" tab of the N-Panel menu
- The magic shader can be accessed in the Shader when addind a new shader to your material
Main features
a/ Initialization
The Initialization feature allows you to import automatically in your project the toon lights setup and the magic shader node.
b/ Materials
Cool Magic Shader node is a fantastic material node available in the Shader editor.
It will allow you to create material that can be configured ad render in realistic and in toon style mode.
Available properties of the node are:
Common properties:
- Object base color
Toon material properties
- Shadow intensity
- Highlight color
- Highlight intensity
- Global light color
Realistic material properties
- Metallic intensity
- Roughness intensity
c/ Toggle between realistic and toon render mode
Yyou can switch between realistic render mode and toon render mode by clicking the "Toggle render mode" button.
d/ Manage Toon render mode properties
When in Toon render mode, the addon tab allows you to directly modify toon render properties:
- Global light color:
It allows to change the global light color (ambiance) of the scene
- Outline collection:
- Outline color will allow to modifiy the color of the outlines
- Outline thickness will allow to modifiy the thickness of the outlines
- Outline opacity will allow to modifiy the opacity of the outlines
- Outline noise factor and Outline noise seed will add a handdraw-like style to the outlines