Cel_shade

[Squad_Sammaron]

i've been workin wid XSI and i'm workin on some cel-shaded hack and slashers. :D but i'm havin trouble exportin anims (i.e. i dont know how) any help would be appreciated, but i won't recognize you :D jk :D

[Squad_Sammaron]

hey, also, how can i export SM's with the cel shade? i make em in XSI but how do i get the tex's through to UE?

[DooFi]

You cant make Cell shaded objects with XSI and use them in RC. You'll have to use a trick like duplicating the object, move all faces along their own normals, invert the mesh and color it plain black.

[Squad_Sammaron]

O.o right...first off, why duplicate? what are normals? why faces? why invert mesh? how? that about covers it :D

[DooFi]

its like fake cell shading, 1 sec, I'm gonna throw something together for ya^^



it'll hardly look any good with many intersecting objects or too round objects imho. But it's worth a try. Be aware you double your polycount by using this "technique"

[Squad_Sammaron]

yea, but that would completely screw anims. i can't cel-shade anims, so drop taht idea. it was dumb idea from the begging Doofi! ;D jk

[DooFi]

I believe War$ow uses this fake cell-shading as well. I dunno whether they use it for animated characters though.

I don't think theres a different solution anyway. XIII uses Cell Shading with the UEngine, but you'd probably have to hardcode it into the engine..

[Squad_Sammaron]

all right. i think i'm gunna work a bit wid TribesEd