Faking Toon Metallic Reflections

Metallics can be difficult with Eevee toon shaders because you can't have them properly reflect the world in most setups (for technical and/or stylistic reasons.) You can make them more interesting by matcaping a procedural texture to fake some reflections. #b3d #bnpr #blender3d pic.twitter.com/r0Jz4tEPXg

— aVersionOfReality (@AversionReality) January 8, 2021

How to get a toony look for metallic reflections using textures with various mapping methods.

In this video:

• Limits of Eevee reflections (screen space or baking)

• Fake reflections using Reflection mapping.

• Fake reflections using Matcaps.

• Fake reflections using UVs + layer weight.

The demo file used is available on Gumroad($0)