Released : V3D FilaToon Converter, Manager and Tools (Commercial)

barbult

Here's a quick conversion of today's freebie Grumpy Santa.

Uthgard

Whoa, this one is basically perfect.

V3Digitimes

Thank you all for sharing your images here!

I really love what I see so far!

Merry Christmas everyone!

barbult

V3Digitimes said:

Thank you all for sharing your images here!

I really love what I see so far!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas! You have made FilaToon so much more fun.

kyoto kid

V3Digitimes said:

@"kyoto kid" :

the converter "only" requires Daz Studio Default content (the free package coming with DS) to be installed, since it is where it picks the convenient shader for the convenient surfaces. I added a few optional LUT shaders and one optional "glass/water" shader. The conversion will (uncheckable option) load the filatoon draw option node required in the scene as well as a distant light to start with. If you want specific lights, you can set up your own spots/point lights as in Iray, or even use dedicated commercial light products, but the distant light included is enough to start with. If you want custom shaders, you can also use your own customized shaders or existing dedicated commercial shaders, but the "Daz Default Content" Filatoon shaders used by default by the converter are enough to start with.

Please note that Genesis 9 Starter essentials is also required for the checkable option to load the filatoon draw node to be loaded properly (otherwise you can load it via the main menu).

Oh and it also requires a version of Daz Studio compatible with Filatoon (4.22 min I think).

For now the only things which are really tempting for me in the store are hair or background images, because not all hair "geometry" is compatible with a good toon look, and background HDR (not working as HDR but used as backgrounds) are not "toony", but rather super realistic.

 

..thank you 

Ahh looks like I'll have to wait as I am still on 4.21.0.5 out of necessity as my system is on Win7 Pro 64 and that is the last version with an Nvida driver that supports the older OS.

I would need to update to 4.23.x, as that is the only version available, but that would also require harware upgrade to meet Win11 requirements, so it ill be a while.

 

barbult

4.23 runs fine on Windows 10. You don't need Windows 11.

Nath

barbult said:

4.23 runs fine on Windows 10. You don't need Windows 11.

It does, but Win10 will lose support in October next year. 

barbult

Nath said:

barbult said:

4.23 runs fine on Windows 10. You don't need Windows 11.

It does, but Win10 will lose support in October next year. 

Yes, but I was just saying that you don't need to update hardware to Windows 11 specs today to run DS 4.23. I have an older computer and I updated it (free) from Windows 7 to Windows 10 a long time ago, and I run 4.23 fine. Yes, eventually upgrades to 11 will be necessary, but not immediately in order to use DS 4.23.

Nath

barbult said:

Nath said:

barbult said:

4.23 runs fine on Windows 10. You don't need Windows 11.

It does, but Win10 will lose support in October next year. 

Yes, but I was just saying that you don't need to update hardware to Windows 11 specs today to run DS 4.23. I have an older computer and I updated it (free) from Windows 7 to Windows 10 a long time ago, and I run 4.23 fine. Yes, eventually upgrades to 11 will be necessary, but not immediately in order to use DS 4.23.

Of course, but - leaving aside budget strain - upgrading to just Win10 specs right now puts one in a similar position as with Win7 again within the year.

barbult

Nath said:

barbult said:

Nath said:

barbult said:

4.23 runs fine on Windows 10. You don't need Windows 11.

It does, but Win10 will lose support in October next year. 

Yes, but I was just saying that you don't need to update hardware to Windows 11 specs today to run DS 4.23. I have an older computer and I updated it (free) from Windows 7 to Windows 10 a long time ago, and I run 4.23 fine. Yes, eventually upgrades to 11 will be necessary, but not immediately in order to use DS 4.23.

Of course, but - leaving aside budget strain - upgrading to just Win10 specs right now puts one in a similar position as with Win7 again within the year.

I didn't have to update hardware to go from 7 to 10. I agree with you that if someone has a computer so weak that it can't run Windows 10, it would make little sense to upgrade to something that can run 10 but not 11.