<aside> 💡 Welcome to YMA Toon Studio! This is a brief overview of how to use YMA Toon Studio to your advantage along with some details for all materials to work with your models.

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ACES vs UNTONEMAPPED

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As toon is more associated with brighter and more intense color, we recommend to change your Color management > View for all toon related work from:

“ACES 1.0 SDR-video” to “Un-tone-mapped” for intended results.

If you prefer to use ACES, please use more intense light values.

Un-tone-mapped (bright color as intended)

ACES 1.0 SDR-video (dark muted less detail)

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YMA Color Node System

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Because each material can have many different nodes and connections to create these styles, to simplify things we have added notes along with what we call the YMA Color Node System. All nodes are color coded and organized/grouped together for ease of use/understanding.

• GREEN = Transform Nodes Edit the Master Scale Node to change all scale settings in a material at once. Or choose the individual scale/rotation/offset nodes to change each component (texture scale, noise scale, dirt scale, etc). (Sometimes very large or very small numbers are needed, due to your 3D model and scene.)
• PURPLE = Color Nodes Edit these to control color in the material.
• BLUE = Bump Nodes Edit to alter embossed effects. Very small values typically work best.
• ORANGE = Tone Mapping Nodes Control how shading/lighting works and include textures + custom input tone mapping.
• YELLOW = Contour Nodes Edit to control all line work of the material.