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>&#13;			Blender's new material shaders, as per version 2.28,
			include nice toon diffuse and specular shaders.
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>&#13;			By using these shaders you can give
			your rendering a comic-book-like or manga-like
			appearance, affecting the shades of colours, as you
			may be able to appreciate in <A
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>Figure 31. A scene with Toon materials.</B
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>&#13;			The effect is not perfect since real comics and manga
			also usually have china ink outlines. Blender can add this
			feature as a post-processing operation.
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>&#13;			To access this option select the <TT
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			button in the <TT
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			of the Rendering (<B
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			This makes Blender search for edges in your rendering
                  and add an 'outline' to them. 
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>Figure 32. Toon edge buttons.</B
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>&#13;			Before repeating the rendering it is necessary to set 
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>Figure 33. Toon edge settings.</B
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>&#13;			In this window it is possible to set the edge colour, which is black
			by default, and its intensity, <TT
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        		which is an integer ranging from 0 (faintest) to 255 (strongest).
			The other buttons are useful if the Unified render is used 
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>&#13;			<A
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>Figure 34. Scene re-rendered with toon edge set.</B
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