| Category | Score (out of 5) | |----------|------------------| | Visual quality (stylized) | ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ | | Visual quality (realistic) | ⭐☆☆☆☆ | | Ease for beginners | ⭐⭐☆☆☆ | | Flexibility | ⭐⭐⭐☆☆ | | Performance | ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ | | Community resources | ⭐⭐⭐☆☆ (older tutorials, but many presets) |
MMD-Raycast (based on Blender's Cycles but embedded via a plugin) treats Toon shaders as BSDF with a step function. The advantage is correct self-shadowing and contact shadows. However, the performance penalty makes it unsuitable for animation preview; it is mostly used for single-frame high-resolution renders. toon shader mmd
The legacy shader (from MMD 9.32) executes the following per-pixel steps: | Category | Score (out of 5) |