Non-photorealistic Rendering

XToon: an extended toon shader

From traditional toon shading to cel shading and beyond, this custom material affords new flexibility and greater control over your shading workflow.

Surface Flow

Surface Flow is a new way to change both NPR screen tiling parameters based on surface distance and angle, and the position of one or more texture locators.

Gradient channels

Gradient channels in the Toon Material lets you accurately control the level and band positions for specular highlights and mirror reflections.

More powerful re-shading

Most of the NPR Shaders now let you mix indirect illumination into the shading amount, delivering fine control of your lighting to take advantage of Modo’s powerful global illumination rendering.

Crayon or scratch rendering

Your shading can now be rendered with Crayon or Scratch mode. Crayon mode uses the surface diffuse color in place of the shader’s ink color. Scratch mode used the final rendered color of the surface as the ink color.

Enhanced specular highlights

The simple Specular Drawing toggle has been replaced with a mixing level to give you better control specular highlights, and a companion Reflection Amount control lets you mix in your scene reflections.