[RELEASED] POTA-Toon - NEW Toon Shader for URP!

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We’re excited to introduce POTA-Toon!
:sparkles: An animation-style toon shading solution for URP Forward+ on PC/Console :video_game:

:light_bulb: Multi-lighting & Spotlight detection — perfect for stage or concert scenes
:black_heart: Realistic shadows, even on transparent meshes
:artist_palette: Character-focused post-processing: tweak colors, add bloom, and shine your style

Make your stylized characters with POTA-Toon!

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Hi, does your asset support APV lighting? Also, what about GPU instancing/SRP batcher/gpu resident drawer support?

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Hiya, some questions.

  1. Can we get a video showing the shader in action?
  2. You mention the website in the description but there isn’t one anywhere.
  3. Some documentation or a showcase gallery of what can be achieved would be nice.
  4. Most shaders have some limitations - you mention none in the description, no mention of how to deal with shadows on faces, etc. That’s quite important, esp. at that price point.
  5. how does it compare to your existing primary competitors like RealToon, Anime Shading Plus or something high-end you can’t even get on the AS like NiloToonURP?
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Hi, yes the GI support will be landed in the 1.0.2 version.
The shader is compatible with SRP Batcher and not designed for GPU instancing as characters have different meshes. As for the GPU resident drawer, it is hard to say whether it would be good for character rendering, as GPU instancing is difficult to adapt to different meshes. So we have no plans to support it technically for now.

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Hey, thanks for your comments! yes, we definitely would like to have sample images/videos as many as possible. We will upload some reference videos and tutorials if possible to Youtube or X in the near future.

And for the Q4, 5:
You’re right, no shaders are perfect. PotaToon has limitations definitely, not designed for every case. We will upload the technical details soon on the website. Speaking of the face shadow, we highly recommend that to use FaceSDF feature together to address the face shadow issue in the guideline. We can say PotaToon is easy-to-use and provides high-quality shadows, including complex transparent mesh rendering with OIT(Order-Independent-Transparency), but as you mentioned we do not have enough samples so we are collaborating with artists together in some projects. :slight_smile: Stay tuned for more!

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Hi! Could you post your question on our Discord server? We don’t want information to be scattered across different channels. You can join our discord via this link.