About Toonkit For Cycles

Toonkit For Cycles provides OSL‑based shader nodes that integrate directly into the Cycles node system and Blender’s viewport. All node outputs are colors, allowing unrestricted mixing of shading, shadow, and specular components. The add‑on includes Face Paint tools that use vertex colors in Edit Mode for cartoon‑style painting, and two ray‑trace line rendering nodes with controls for Normal, Depth, Object ID, Silhouette, and Vertex Color influences. Production‑quality images typically converge with 4 to 32 samples. Version 1.7 adds support for Blender 4.x, reworks Face Paint around Blender Color Attributes, and makes the download file act as its own installer. It is suited for anime, technical, architectural visualization, engineering, and expressive art projects.

Features

• OSL shader nodes integrated into the Cycles node system and Blender’s viewport
• Shaders that converge to noiseless production-quality images in roughly 4 to 32 samples
• All node outputs are colors — shadings, shadows, and specular — that can be mixed and operated freely
• Face Paint tools using vertex colors in Edit Mode for cartoon styles
• Two raytrace-based line rendering nodes with controls for Normal, Depth, Object Id, Silhouette, and Vertex Color influence
• Support for Blender 4.x, 3.x, and 2.93

Best for

Artists who need anime‑style, technical, architectural, engineering, or expressive art renders using Cycles with integrated line rendering and vertex‑color paint tools.