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#1 looks like your looking for a cartoon filter, never done it myself but seen it done in TGEA there may even be a resource, I'll take a quick look.

#2 ok first off try this out

http://www.garagegames.com/community/forums/viewthread/97401

Its an outline shader, this should help some.

#3 David has one solution but,

Simply put.... paint the textures like that..... add them to your model... off you go. This is how 80% of Borderlands 2 was done..... (borderlands 1 used a nifty shader because they were not intending to release it with 'cartoon' shading, it was an afterthought because it got compared to Fallout 3 so often) want a hand painted look... then hand paint the models, add the textures, use basic lighting (to simplify shadows).... done. You don't always need crazy shaders and crap slowing the engine down....

Ron

#4 Liman3D used to do a couple of shader packs

liman3d.com/docs/shaderpackvol1_manual.pdf
liman3d.com/docs/shaderpackvol2_manual.pdf

unfortunately they took them off sale, I didn't get them when I had the chance (due to lack of funds)
In volume 1 they had several toon shaders, so it can be done with just a shader in Torqu3D, I'm not up on shaders so can't help you but am sure with a bit of poking around you may be able to find one already done or make your own, maybe even contact Liman3D
liman3d.com/support.html
you never know

sorry couldn't help more

#5 Ron is right, I threw up a quick room in Max exported it to Torque3D turned the lighting to basic, didn't add any other lights skybox or anything else

with some textures I bet it wouldn't be far off what your after without any shaders whatsoever.

#6 Thanks David! Not a dig or anything but, sometimes I think, we get over complicated with what we want to do. Advanced engine and all. Thanks for the validation! Another method would be to paint the textures cartoon like and turn on the emit modifier in the material editor. Flat shading, no shadows.... simple.

Ron

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#8 couldn't resist, had to try it.

as Ron suggested, textured with the emissive flag set

#9 @Unlisted, hmm not quite sure what your after, you want the texture jitter? like my above image?

Just make the texture smaller?

#10 .

#11 hmmm. Gonna spit ball the problem here.....

Are you using a MIP mapped texture in .dds format? If you are.... STOP. Use a JPG or PNG and TURN off the anti aliasing features. (ensure core/client/PostFx/FSAA.cs has an 'enabled' set to false. Also, ensure you have NO anti aliasing selected in your options menu. If you are using Mip mapping make sure there are NO extra mapping levels. Should just be one.

Lastly, you are using different render engines, there will be variation. Think Vray versus Mental Ray. You can get close, but there will always be differences. Personally, I like either render.

Ron

#12 The 'blurring' effect is a result of texture filtering. T3D uses linear or anisotropic (if enabled) filtering by default. To get that retro, pixel art look the texture filtering needs to be disabled.

To do that requires a code change in the engine:

In processedMaterial.cpp, lines 261 & 262 you should see:

result.samplers[i].minFilter = GFXTextureFilterLinear;
               result.samplers[i].magFilter = GFXTextureFilterLinear;

Change these lines to:

result.samplers[i].minFilter = GFXTextureFilterNone;
               result.samplers[i].magFilter = GFXTextureFilterNone;

Recompile, launch the game, open the options screen and make sure the 'Anisotropic Filtering' option is set to 'Off'.

Edit: Added before/after comparison screenshots:

Before Changes: postimg.org/image/45hwbpndv/
After Changes: postimg.org/image/x8k41uvc7/

#13 ok, sorry for not getting it at first, you want to turn off all texture filtering.

I know you can turn off Anti-aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering, you can even turn your texture quality to low, but I think for this effect to work properly you need to also set your screen resolution pretty low else the sheer number of pixels will work against you. I think you need a shader that will do a similar job

[edit]Ignore this just use the above fix :-)[/edit]

#14 .

#15 Oops, forgot about mipmapping. You can try this:

In processedMaterial.cpp, around line 251 you should see:

result.samplers[i].addressModeV = GFXAddressWrap;

Just below that add:

result.samplers[i].mipFilter = GFXTextureFilterNone;

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#17 am glad Chris solved it for you, nice retro look :-)

#18 Thanks Chris! Glad you all got it worked out. Looks very retro....

Ron

#19 Even though Chris already solved this, I thought I'd try out my own method for getting this kind of effect (although Chris' solution is perfect!). What I did was use a 600px texture. A non power of two will always result in aliasing. I also set my sun colour to black, and ambient to light grey. Oh, and advanced lighting turned off. I know it isn't near as good as Chris' method, but it may work for others. Possibly.

#20 Honestly, given the rising prevalence of retro games or 'low bit' style games, I have to wonder if it wouldn't make sense to rig the texture filter rules to a pref, instead of needing to go into the guts of the engine for each project that may need it.