Cartoony

Version 0.2 - "Initial Release"

✨ Initial Features

• Cel-shaded rendering system

  • 8-level color quantization
  • Smooth color banding with interpolation
  • Cartoon aesthetic foundation

• Outline detection

  • Depth-based edge detection
  • 4-directional depth sampling
  • Configurable outline thickness

• Basic lighting

  • Simple texture sampling
  • Vertex color application
  • Alpha transparency support

• Post-processing effects

  • Vignette darkening
  • Basic contrast adjustment
  • Color enhancement

• Hand item rendering

  • Separate shader for held items
  • Basic lighting for first-person view
  • Normal-based shading

• Tonemapping

  • Reinhard tone mapping
  • Gamma correction
  • HDR to LDR conversion

🎯 Design Goals

• Create accessible cartoon aesthetic
• Maintain good performance
• Work with vanilla textures
• Easy to customize

⚙️ Technical Foundation

• GLSL 120 compatibility
• OptiFine/Iris support
• Basic gbuffer setup
• Simple composite pipeline

🔮 Planned Features

Version 0.4 (Future)

• [ ] Customizable outline colors
• [ ] Adjustable color banding levels via settings
• [ ] Water shader with cartoon ripples
• [ ] Sky rendering with stylized clouds
• [ ] Optional shadow support
• [ ] Screen-space reflections with cartoon filter

Community Requests

• [ ] Configurable lighting intensity
• [ ] Support for more texture pack styles
• [ ] Weather effects (rain/snow particles)
• [ ] Nether/End dimension styling

Stay tuned for updates! 🎨✨