Cel Shader FX- Essentials

CelShaderFX Documentation CelShaderFX Trailer CelShaderFX Tutorial v2.1 update notes: - Preset count corrected 10 → 37 (with thumbnails). - Module count 8 → 12 (ASCII, Pixelate, Color Correction were already shipping but weren't counted). - Added Unity 6.4 + native URP 17 RenderGraph as a headline differentiator. - Hero rewritten to lead with a single named promise + the cross-pipeline edge. Turn any Unity scene into hand-drawn art — Built-In, URP, and HDRP from one package. CelShaderFX Essentials is a complete non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) post-processing suite. Drop it on your camera and turn any 3D scene into anime, manga, comic-book, watercolor, ink, or painterly art — no shader code, no per-material setup. 12 stackable effect modules, 5 edge-detection methods, and 37 one-click presets (each with a rendered thumbnail) get you to a finished look in seconds, then let you tune every parameter. One codebase. Three pipelines. Native Unity 6 support. Unlike single-pipeline toon shaders, CelShaderFX runs on Built-In, URP, and HDRP from a single package — including the native URP 17 RenderGraph path on Unity 6.3+. Verified from Unity 2021.3 LTS through Unity 6.4. Why CelShaderFX? - All 3 pipelines, one package — Built-In, URP, and HDRP from a single codebase, including native URP 17 RenderGraph. Switch pipelines without losing your settings. - Unity 2021.3 → Unity 6.4 — verified across a 5-version × 3-pipeline compile matrix. Stays current with the latest LTS. - 37 presets, with thumbnails — Anime, Ghibli, Manga, Comic, Watercolor, Sumi-E, Cyberpunk, Risograph, and more. Browse by sight in the visual Preset Browser, apply in one click, tune to taste. - Zero cost when disabled — modules you turn off consume no GPU time. No hidden overhead. - Production-tested — stable across Unity LTS releases, no external dependencies. 12 Stackable Effect Modules Cel Shading — Color-band quantization (2–16 bands), custom ramp textures, and palette quantization. The foundation of any NPR look. Outlines — 5 Detection Methods - Sobel — Classic, reliable edge detection for clean outlines. - Roberts — Lightweight cross-gradient operator for stylized edges. - Canny — Multi-stage detection with non-maximum suppression for refined lines. - Difference of Gaussians (DoG) — Smooth, organic outlines with adjustable sigma. - JFA Cinematic Outlines — Jump Flood Algorithm distance-field outlines up to 64 px wide, with soft falloff and customizable glow. Resolution-independent. Kuwahara Filter — 4 variants (Basic, Generalized, Anisotropic, Polynomial) of the edge-preserving painterly filter. Turn renders into oil-painting abstraction. XDoG Ink Stylization — Extended Difference of Gaussians for manga-style ink, with Tangent-Flow and Edge-Tangent-Flow modes for coherent, flowing line art. Resolution-independent. Hatching — Procedural and TAM (Tonal Art Map) cross-hatch shading, plus geometry-anchored Triplanar Pattern mode. Simulate pen-and-ink illustration in screen or world space. Halftone — Ben-Day dots, lines, and authentic CMYK plate separations with configurable screen angles. Comic-print and pop-art aesthetics. Dithering — Bayer matrix, blue noise, and Spatiotemporal Blue Noise (STBN). Smooth banding with temporally stable noise. Watercolor — Simulated paint bleeding, wet edges, granulation, and paper texture. Painterly — Visible brush strokes, canvas texture, and impasto for the look of traditional paint. ASCII Art — Cell-based luminance-to-character rendering with monochrome or colored modes and edge enhancement. Pixelate — Early-chain UV snapping so every downstream effect renders into the pixel grid. Clean retro pixel-art. Color Correction — 11 art-style grades (Comic, Manga, Anime, Watercolor, Noir, Pop Art, Vintage, Cyberpunk, Ghibli, Retro Game, Custom) with contrast, saturation, temperature, vibrance, split-tone tints, and LUT support. Plus motion-vector temporal stabilization to keep dithering and hatching steady in motion. What’s