How To Create Cel-Shading In Unreal Engine 4/5 (Tutorial)

[@VinoVenitas]

YOOO I was looking around like crazy for this, simple but effective. And this was just perfect. Next up is the black outline and then Im all good to go. Thank you. Another good one

[@Ruti3131]

you just made my day , i was looking at something simple yet powerful and here o found you , thank you this was very helful for my game and now i can work on it

[@nightwalkerj]

The best toon shader tutorial Ive seen yet.

[@wielandsmith]

This was great. Thanks! I've already been through two other cel shading tutorials and this is the first one that worked... plus had full explanations.

[@yoyobird8427]

what about now in 5.4?

[@Mety333]

Hey really awesome work! I subbed and currently watching many of your short super useful tutorials.

[@chickishot8172]

Thank you for this. I currently have cel shading material and outline, but I don’t have cel shading for my environment which is what I needed.

[@moca6655]

While the effect works, it also makes the models essentially unlit. In dark areas the model is still completely bright, and color lights have no color effect on the model. I'm using UE4.25 btw.

[@nikz000]

Do you think blueprints can solve this with like decreasing the emission?

[@Swamprats0n]

I'm a little late but I had the same problem, I didn't have the multiply in the Texture diffuse for brightness set to 1 instead of 0.5

[@g-dojjo]

Thanks bro this is great tutorial!! in the future please make a outline tutorial too :D i think this shader + outline is looking really good.

[@SporpyManGuyPeronNerd]

This one was super simple, stright to the point, no BS. I am going to subscribe :D

[@MattAspland]

Thank you! Happy to help :)

[@sarahlynn7807]

I'd like to know more about cel shading in this way's interaction with the UE5 Lumen lights. There's a number of weird effects they create when combined which you can even see in your video.

[@Franksjonathan35]

I would also like to know this.

[@MichaelRoyalty]

After a bit of fiddling, I think that the problem comes from soft shadows. I've corrected the problem by making the light and shadows harsher: Disable the skylight Crank the DirectionalLight intensity up. I doubled mine from 10 lux to 20 lux. You may also want to set indirect lighting to 0 on the DirectionalLight. You'll then need to compensate for the difference in brightness by modifying the Exposure in your post processing volume. You'll also want to modify the shadow tint to be a little lighter -- fortunately this tutorial gives us that setting!

[@xSTstSTx]

@@MichaelRoyalty I'm trying to use my day/night cycle but with this post processing effect enabled everything is staying lit up with "night" lighting, any idea why?

[@seanholihanmusic2473]

Great tut! You should do more replicated tutorials, like replicated hide in locker and stuff. I feel like I am getting the basics of blueprints down but no matter how many rep tutorials I watch, replicating events always confuses me

[@projectgg6730]

Good rule of thumb. Always run it on the server then send the information where it needs to go!

[@hanjicheesecak3]

thank you so much!! just what i needed for a uni project i'm working on!

[@MushroomProductionsOfficial]

Yay Now I Can Make My Game Everything At Once In The Future!

[@SeanSilas_IronWrath_GTR]

Thank you Matt for this! Cheers!

[@CRUMVIII]

Thanks Matt. This will be especially useful in my project.

[@majupiju2347]

Simple but clear tutorial! As always easy to follow along! Thx for sharing :)

[@foolsanticsstudio]

Thanks for the tutorial. I like this method better than the other tutorial I followed. Cleaner. Would you know how to add an outline to everything as well?

[@tableprinterdoor]

Thanks you’ve pretty much read my mind several times now

[@Jool_ean]

I highly recommend creating a black outline material along with this to make it look extra good

[@janiya7335]

how would you go about doing this?

[@Jool_ean]

@@janiya7335 There's plenty of KZbin tutorials out there explaining exactly how. It's also a PPM so you can slap it onto the same PP Volume the cel shading is in and then it looks great

[@nomad7317]

Hey, where is the outline?

[@SuddenlyMythical]

is there a reason that all the textures containing a metallic value just turn black?

[@matteckenrodt]

There's a video by PrismaticaDev explaining how to use metallic with this style cel shader. Basically you hijack the specular channel and use that as your metallic. Watch his video though, he explains very well

[@MartKart8]

I tried to make a Cel-shading material, that leant from Unreal Engine, I didn't really like it because it kept putting these think black lines in the sky, the thumb nail of the video is of cow.

[@Steelersfan355]

now if you had a day night cycle how would you make it so you arent glowing during the night

[@LousyNine]

After an hour of searching, I finally found a video showing how to do this, thanks! Side note: is there an easy way to also add those black lines around the model edges, anime style? I’m recreating a colored manga cover scene in 3D.

[@nvermr]

thanks for the tutorial :) also I just realized thats the robot from love death + robots

[@frzzzl9800]

Do you know how to add multiple levels of grayscales? So that there isnt just the on and off switch, but rather, there are 3 or even 5 shades, the toon shader will create?

[@lemc_art]

Awesome tutorial. Very easy to follow. However, at 01:30, I came a cross an issue where "BEFORE Tonemapping" is missing from Blendable Location under Post Process Material. I'm currently using UE5 5.4.3. Anyone else have this issue and found a solution?

[@mutantmelod]

saw someone in the comments say that "Scene color before bloom" is the new version and to use that one :)

[@aliciaalina7952]

this is the best tutorial ever! Super nice for noobs like me, thanks!

[@ikewilliams4399]

Hey great tutorial! How do I fix it for cell shading at night tho? looks bad..

[@juliamorgana703]

Amazing, thank you very much!!

[@TheDiscordAvengers]

Thanks bro! Honest W for my new game

[@VonCatcher_art]

Hi, working amazing but got an issue, the emissive doesn't work anymore on the object who had somes

[@kirill8221]

Hello! How could we avoid moving shadow noise in the corner of the scene at 09:35, in the corner of the level?

[@williammccormick3787]

This might be a tall order, but does anyone know how to create a cell shader that also interacts with scene lighting? I know that would be a complicated math equation to both determine RGB values (RBG as in if you have a red light in your scene and that affects your character's shading) as well as the actual tone, but if it exists that would be super helpful. Thank you

[@NotLyaGabbro]

For anyone that followed the tutorial and is not managing to make the "render custom depth" to work on selected objects, know that the property does not work on Nanite Enabled meshes. A bit inconvenient, but not the end of the world.

[@sarwaradel]

Best cel shader tutorial ever

[@hatsunemikuchannel2023]

8:50-9:05-9:45 I did what you said, but, in my case there's two errors 1 says "Failed to compile AlessThanBInput" While the other says "Missing If AGreaterThanB input"

[@alssaarraahj]

On Unreal 5, I don't have the option to make the 'blendable location' in the details panel 'before tonemapping' I can make it 'before bloom' is this the same thing?

[@Mae4Ever]

How do I make harsher black shadows similar to No More Heroes/Killer 7?

[@unrealamas]

I used prismaticadev's tutorial to achieve that. But I combined it with Matt's sky ox fix, since Prismaticaa's shader gave me a black sky. Once you separate all the bands, simply reduce the shadow values to something close to 0, like 0.01 and so on. Adjust till you get what you need.

[@Mae4Ever]

@@unrealamas I kinda need to know where I can watch that video, or you showing how to make that shade.

[@MrSkullface]

Why have the outline in the thumbnail bit not in the video.

[@juliamorgana703]

I did it, followed it correctly and it worked. But on mine, the scene looked shaky. Can you tell me why this happened?

[@aakburns]

This only sort of works, just seems to make everything really bright. Something change in 5.3.2?

[@evelynlewis122]

You're amazing!!

[@melaniemntl]

great tutorial ! thanks ^^

[@liko_das6521]

eyw aga tam da ihtiyacım olan şeyin videosunu atmışsın sağolasın

[@KaitheArtGuy]

I got it working exactly like the tutorial, but if I want the color of the scene lighting to affect my objects how can I enable that?

[@Lightningdays]

Wondering this exactly

[@scwells5740]

Great video. After a few minutes and one particularly annoying error I got it running. How ever I do not seem to have any shadow at all. It makes the scene look flat and unappealing. Has anyone came across this issue and got past it. If so how was it fixed?

[@xSTstSTx]

Having an issue with the infinite extent it seems, my map is pretty large for my project and the post processing effect isn't reaching the far spots on my map, it cuts off. Any idea why? Thanks for the vid.

[@bellVFX]

I don't understand when I connect the sky shader it comes back but removes the connection with the Cel shader, how do I keep both connected at the same time?

[@angeldelvax7219]

Just tried this tutorial on 5.4 and there is no blendable location "before tonemapping' anymore. There are "before bloom" and "before DOF". Any tips on what setting to use for this?

[@nintenjo64]

i had the same question..

[@EpicNukeOfficial]

"Scene color before bloom" Is the new version of it. Hope this helps

[@phantomwolfy1]

i dont see before tonemapping at all for the options

[@donatorana4486]

It works great on most of my objects, but it breaks some materials and stops them from rendering, is there anything in the blueprints that could be messing with other materials?

[@ikewilliams4399]

also is there a way to increase rendering distance? The post process only goes so far

[@MomenElwan]

thank you very much man !!!

[@Enkell13]

Nice man, thanks.

[@ShadowBrave21]

i have 5.4.1 and i dont see the "before tone mapper"

[@EpicNukeOfficial]

"Scene color before bloom" Is the new version of it. Hope this helps

[@sunnymon1436]

Hmmm.... seems to have just desaturated all the objects in my project, regardless of whether they have custom depth set or not.

[@phamxuankhoaa]

OMG, THIS IS WHAT I NEED

[@Synth679]

Thanks, This is exactly what I was looking for. I just have a small problem. The celshading turns my water white and my guns are extremely dark now. Does anybody know a fix for that?

[@chickishot8172]

Yeah I have a similar issue… My cel shading is causing things to sometimes disappear like Niagara effects, but my biggest issue is low lighting at night. The things that don’t have cel shading look black and sometimes things that do are black. It also caused everything at night to be super bright looking like I’m looking at it in the day time when it is night time. Also sometimes cel shading is getting added to objects automatically when it isn’t supposed to.

[@jiaqianhuang-ob8wj]

Why is it that when I draw on the left and right sides of the canvas, I can draw smoothly, but if I want to draw on the top and bottom of the canvas, I need to raise the camera to a 180-degree angle to draw?

[@madclowninc.4233]

It works but it doesn't allow emission how do I get it to work with emission

[@dantenage9687]

dude, you're awesome

[@Mae4Ever]

I don't have "before tone mapping"

[@EpicNukeOfficial]

"Scene color before bloom" Is the new version of it. Hope this helps

[@Lightningdays]

works but no other lights in the scene work anymore. Help

[@ayachi_chakib]

Hi , Great Tutorial i have a problem that i couldn't fix , when i connect the "if" node to emissive color i get an error and it doesn't work , can you plz help with this ?

[@mathieuvart]

I hjave colorthe same problem... The error is: Failed to compile AGreaterThanB input. Did you managed to make it work?

[@Zeis]

That was a great tutorial, but connecting the Lighting Buffer If output straight to the Emissive Colour, just like you did at the end, still leaves my sky black. Any idea why? I re-watched 5 times and followed your steps precisely, but it's still not working. I'm using Unreal 5.3.1

[@Webi_]

THANKS SO MUCH

[@primitivepatterns]

this tutorial seems to not work for 5.4 since they removed the option for "before tonemapping" under blendable locations

[@EpicNukeOfficial]

"Scene color before bloom" Is the new version of it. Hope this helps

[@SHOEBILLMEMEZ]

@@EpicNukeOfficial life saver

[@EpicNukeOfficial]

@@SHOEBILLMEMEZ :)

[@ovrava]

Is it possible to do that on Foliage? My Foliage does not have "Render CustomDepth Pass" option.

[@viciousvndta]

How does this look at night lighting`?

[@tanver3d982]

any tips on reflections? and night time dont work

[@Enderking394]

How do I change the thickness of outlines on stuff

[@nayaleezy]

very cool friend!

[@dreamvega2231]

When I enable render custom depth nothing happens at all. Why is that?

[@PixelForge3D]

SOMEONE knows how to add outlines?????

[@timelesstater]

hey i did this and the shadows are very wavy is there a way to fix it

[@lolaswift111]

thx a lot matt

[@gnome6969]

hmm, is there a reason why the shadows on the cube looks wrong with the shader is applied?

[@itsmfdanbruh]

how do i get it to work on low light? it looks kinda weird

[@74nz1l]

it messes up silver color. can you give a fix of that??

[@heresmynovel331]

Hi there Could you please help me with this, it's important Whenever I click on (build all levels) the whole project crashes and kicks me out. Because of it building lighting is not working, collusion is not working, the character is lagging while walking and the whole thing is unbearable Please help 💔

[@chickishot8172]

Try building each one by themselves instead of all levels. Doing all at once could be too much for your PC. Unreal Engine needs a decent gaming type of PC with a lot of space to work properly otherwise it can cause major issues like crashing.

[@yoyobird8427]

before tonemapping option was remove in unreal 5.4 any fix?

[@EpicNukeOfficial]

"Scene color before bloom" Is the new version of it. Hope this helps

[@Indigoodvibes]

Hello guys , do you know if it is mobile compatible ? for android and ios i mean :) !

[@AkshatSingh-v6b]

Ayo guys.. anyone know how Can I enable double sided and alpha in cell shader....I gotta mesh that has opacity in the basecolor. But not been able to use alpha....any help

[@mathieuvart]

i get an error when i connect the if" node to emissive color, The error is: Failed to compile AGreaterThanB input. Anybody can help please?

[@fogryu]

Seems very cool, but it's not working for me... Even tried it in a new scene with nothing else than a light and a cube but nope. I wonder if something changed in the engine since this video was made. Thanks for the video anyway.

[@klovvin]

Thank you!

[@oKyza]

(in UE5) i have a water zone and the Cel-Shading effects this, and turns it Grey, is there a way to avoid this without Passing everything through "render Custom Depth" in details

[@TacticalGoat]

I get an error when I drag the IF into the Emissive color. I dont know why..

[@KoEnder]

Would this method also have the lighting on the character change based on where the light source is pointing?

[@quantumevolution4502]

Yes you can already see it I. The way the shadows are dynamic

[@aNoobAllDay]

Tried it but it made my character glow, don't know if it is supposed to do that but when ever i walked into a dark area it stayed lit up

[@miwibean27]

hi! did you find a reason for this or how to bypass it?? im running into the same problem and its a bit inconvenient since our games supposed to be quite darkly lit :(

[@luthfihisyam3222]

why i can't click the apply button?

[@seankale5116]

whelp this straight up didnt work for me. the if's are broken with an error and im getting a this will not render in my SM5 level error. FUN! and or help.

[@victoirelotika8687]

@MattAspland this works but my assets are now dark how do I fix this

[@naurtaur]

Does this work in UEFN

[@Ryuuoujin]

I don't think this works with substrate, at least, it didn't work for me, have 5.3, and half texture became either fully black or just completely white.

[@tjrizvi251]

While it works, sure, if your model is in the dark, it either gives off light or is full bright. I think this needs a rework

[@emiliarosa5498]

How would you add this to just the third person character? Instead of just an object?

[@ikewilliams4399]

did you find a way?

[@WWatson99]

Hi! Is there a way to trigger a shader only on objects that the user is currently looking at, using a line trace? Thank you for the tutorial!

[@888Yelena]

and where is the outline?