Cel Shading - beginners question

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Hi Guys,

one fast little question. I want to start out in Unity with a Zelda The Wind Waker like project (actually as a tutorial for myself).

The question is how do I get a cel shading look in general. Do I create cel shading like textures in my 3D applications or do I use normal looking models and add the Unity toon shader, or both in combination (flat textures in CGI app and the hard borders of a model with the ingame shader)?

This is more of a understanding question than a how to question.

Thank you :)

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Answer by kalvinlyle · Mar 11, 2012 at 07:47 PM

The outline is a vertex shader that:

duplicates the mesh
colours the vertices black (or applies a black material)
moves each vertices along it's normal a specific distance
flips the normal (turning the mesh inside out).

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