Highlight Settings

The ability to display specular highlights in a cel-animation-like manner is essential for Toon Shaders. The Unity Toon Shader provides a wide variety of expressions with controllability to illuminate the area independently of light color and intensity for impressive cel-shading.



Highlight

Highlight : Texture(sRGB) × Color(RGB) Default:White. Pattern and color of specularly illuminated area.



Default Color Applied different light color

Highlight Power

The size of the Highlight controlled through the High light power slider. The size increase with the formula: pow(x,5).



Specular Mode

UTS provides two modes for the highlight for different occasions and effect. The hard mode provides a crisp and solid edge to the highlight while the soft mode provides a blended blurred effect.

Hard Soft



Color Blending Mode

Specular color blending mode allows the user to control the hardness of the colour applied to the highlight. Users have two options: Multiply or Add. Note that Color Blending Mode is disabled when Specular Mode is Soft.

Multiply Add

Highlight Blending on Shadows

Control the blending for the highlights in shadows. Please refer to the image at Blending Level.

Blending Level

Adjusts the intensity of highlight applied to shadow areas.



Highlight Mask

A gray scale texture which utilises its brightness to control highlight intensity. Applying the highlight mask allows to fine-tune the reflectivity on the material.

Gray Scale Texture Example
High Light Mask Off HIgh Light Mask On

Highlight Mask Level

Highlight mask texture blending level to highlights.