Soft tones Iray Shader?

PhoenixDeFalco

Hey, All! Its your friendly neighborhood supernoob, here with yet another question about Freebies. I'm trying to create a render in DS4.8, with soft, pastel-like tones. I have an Iray toon shader preset, and was wondering if anyone knew of, or was willing to create, a shader preset for DAZ to render an image in Pastel tones, similar to the image linked below. Please note, the image linked to is not my work, and doesn't belong to me, I'm merely using it as an example of what kind of tones I'm looking to reproduce with DAZ Iray. Thanks! ~* Phoenix DeFalco *~ Here's the example image: http://fav.me/d8hfy8x Note: I do have permission from the artist to post a link to her pic on this forum.

Richard Haseltine

Moved to Daz Studio Discussion as it's a question, not an offer of a freebie. I've also deleted the image - if you want to show anothr's work it's best to link to their site/gallery page.

To do something like that you need even lights - a largely monotone dome image, say - but it's not really the kind of thing Iray is designed for, looking at 3Delight may be better Alternatively you could render out to material IDs - each material gets a random or user specified colour - and then adjust those colours, perhgaps then using a low opacity overlay in luminance mode of a standard render to slightly tone the results.

j cade

Is something like this in my gallery close enough to the look you're after?  No outline obviously, but pretty pastel.

 

The main thing is to go into render settings>editor>>tonemapping and setting burn highlights and crush backs to 0, you can also up the saturation and gamma a hair.

 

If this looks good to you I can whip up a quick preset.

PhoenixDeFalco

It looks excellent, and very close to what I'm attempting to achieve. Is there any way to soften the image even more? Like to introduce almost a bloom effect, without the light effect? Softer lines, and less sharp detail, that sort of thing...? Nonetheless, I would very much like to have that preset, if you would be so amazingly kind...Thanks! ~* Phoenix DeFalco *~

j cade

Here are the settings (its an old image so I recreated it a bit) The Zip Contains 3 presets, the main one is the tone mapping settings, the other to combine (environment and a spotlight) to make the lighting setup in the render below

 

If you already have the lighting set up how you like, just use the render settings.

 

Also If the settings are making everything too bright go into the render settings and turn down the exposure a hair.

PhoenixDeFalco

Thank you! If anyone else knows of a shader or shader preset for soft, pastel tones, please let me know!

3dOutlaw

If you want light tone toon shaders like that pic, see visual style shaders here at daz, there is also a thread with lots of examples

PhoenixDeFalco

Any chance you could point out that thread with a link?

oomu

Thanks a lot too

I loved to use iray to make surrealist/toony pictures. That pastel setting is inspiring.