Maya 6.0 Contour / Toon shading

[zeicon]

Hello

I am dissatisfied with the Maya 6 contour render. It seems very limited and I am not able to achieve the desired results. Either it strokes out too many edges or too few...

In Maya 5, I used this toon shader,
http://www.fenriz.org/projects/maya/maya_toon_shading_i.phphttp://www.fenriz.org/projects/maya/maya\_toon\_shading\_i.php

It rocked... however, in Maya 6 it tends to stroke out the wireframes also, which doesn't look good at all. I have also tried the final toon shader from this site, but it doesn't work either...

Have anyone here had any success with the Maya 6 build-in contour render? Or does anyone know where I can get a fully working shader network for creating decently cel-shaded animations with outlines?

HELP!

[joojaa]

Make 2 passes one for cotours usng the vector renderer fr the cotours and then layer that on top of your cell shader... This makes a good ultraclean look.

The prcess can then be refined ito something not soclean if need be. However more than ths would be to tell trade seecrets

[rodrez]

Hey
You are gonna have to ignore the contour rendering option in maya 6 (although tempting) and stick to custom MR contour nodes. Glad to say that all the contour nodes are working properly in maya 6 (I dont think they were in maya 5) and we can now go much further than the simple contour shading...check this example out, it was made with paint fx, some stock models (i forget who to credit) and a whole bunch of MR contour nodes. I was basically trying every type of contour node in this example, and it looks sick when animated...
if anyone has tips on a cell shader network, that is different from your standard network found in most shaders, please let me know (im looking for something similiar to XSI's super cell shader)
peace
jeff