Toon outline shader

[qwigs]

I have a toon shader that I did that works great. Except it doesn't work properly on flat angular objects. eg. a house; what winds up happening is when it sticks the 'outline' on the house it paints the side of it completely black. I'm assuming this is because of the nature of the shader. I tried out some toon shaders that other people made and they're all the same.
So I'm wondering, is there any way to make an 'ink' like outline for an object where the outline would appear outside the actual model, as opposed to the traditional toon shaders which put the outline inside the geometry.

That's it.

p.s. maya vector is a slow piece of crap so don't bother suggesting it.

[joojaa]

Use mental ray outlines.

p.s. maya vector is a slow piece of crap so don't bother suggesting it.

offcourse its slow because its a analaytic solution rather than a sampled one

[qwigs]

Hey thanks.
As it turns out I found toonshader.com and it filled all my toon shading needs. Their shaders are great.

->I don't quite follow your comment on vector render. Are you trying to act clever? Cause really, Vector render is a piece of crap.

[prodigie]

I believe all joojaa was trying to say is mental ray has a simple contour shader that will give you the outline ink effect you are looking for. It requires you to set up a couple of settings in render globals though but I think you should be able to find out what you need by the documentation. It'll save you some money buying the toonshader. That is if you want....it's up to you

[qwigs]

alright alright.
I looked into the mental ray outlines and it seems to work just as well as anything else I thought about. The free aspect is a bonus.

Thanks for the help