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The V-Ray Toon Render Element renders the entire scene with the V-Ray Toon Render Effect and contains a mask for the toon outlines, although the toon color is not present in it. It also supports opacity set from the toon effect, presenting it as grayed outlines.

 

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This render element is enabled through the Render Elements tab of the Render Setup window in 3ds Max and displays its parameters in a rollout at the bottom of the window:

VRayVFB  – When enabled, the render element appears in the V-Ray Virtual Frame Buffer. 

Deep output – Specifies whether to include this render element in deep images. 

Color mapping – Applies the color mapping options specified in the Color mapping rollout (Render Setup window > V-Ray tab) to this render element. This option is enabled by default. 

Multiplier – Sets the overall intensity of the render element, where 1.0 is the standard multiplier.

Denoise – Specifies whether to denoise this render element.

Invert color – Inverts the black and white colors.

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For the toon effect to be visible in the V-Ray Toon Render Element, the VRayToon Render Effect must be present and active.

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Common Uses

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The V-Ray Toon Render Element is is useful for changing the appearance of a render in a compositing or image editing application.   The VRayToon Render Element holds a mask for the toon outlines (the toon color is not present in it).
It has an option to invert its output, so instead of white lines on a black background, we can get the opposite. It also supports opacity set from the toon effect. See how V-Ray Toon looks with inverted colors.

 

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materials reflections and refractions are not set to Affect All channels

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, V-Ray Toon

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is not applied to them. See how the RE looks when that mode is set and when it is not. In this example, Invert color is enabled.

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V-Ray Toon is often used for creating cartoon-like renders. This can be achieved my Multiplying it by the V-Ray Diffuse Filter Render Element in a compositing or editing software.

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V-Ray Toon Render Element composited over the VRayDiffuseFilter render element while set to multiply in composite

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  • For the toon effect to be visible in the V-Ray Toon Render Element, the VRayToon Render Effect must be present and active.
  • When the Do reflections/refractions option is enabled for the V-Ray Toon Effect, then in order for all reflected and refracted toon lines to be present in the render element, you need to set the V-Ray materials' reflection and refraction to Affect All channels. Lights must also be turned on within the scene or no reflections/refractions will be present in the render.