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Frogger on 18 June 2015
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sc94597 said:
spemanig said:


No offense, but most people who use cel-shading in a sentence like you did just now have no idea what the term means. The game isn't cel-chaded at all. Wind Waker used cel-shading. The Naruto fighting games use cel-shading. Jet Set Radio used cel-shading.

Nothing in MP:FF is cel-shaded. Not even a little. Cel-shading is a lighting technique use to created flat colored textures. As in, little to no gradient. Textures are solid blocks of color in cel shading, and the shade of those blocks are determined by the lighting value given by the light source.

None of that is in this game. Cel-shading doesn't mean "cute" or "chibi" or "simple." It's a coloring technique.

 

That is cel-shading.

 

That is not.


What lighting gradient do you see in this game? It is by default cel-shading because of the low-quality of the shading itself. Look at the "fur?" on the enemies leg in the picture you posted. It is flat, no gradient at all. Now compare that with a Hunters picture. 

   

^ Noice the ends of his "spikes" are lighted continously more than the portion closer to his body. 

Now let's compare character models and environment. 

The snow has a uniform lighting value, no variation at all. The characters have uniform lighting as well (the dark and light patterns are the color of the textures, not from some light source.) 

Looking at hunters look at the green beam of the character it has a gradient shade. Look at samus' it also has a gradient shade. 

^ This is obviously not a single gradient, it has three different very limited gradients. The yellow, the medium orange, and the dark orange. All of which are so distinct from eachother that you can almost draw shapes. 


Low quality textures isn't cel-shading. The fact that you used the fur texture on the picture I posted as an example of cel-shading proves you don't understand what it is at all. That isn't cel shading. If it was cel-shading, it wouldn't look like fur, it would look like a flat gray-white color. What you're talking about are bad textures.

The snow does have gradience. It's not cel-shaded at all. None of what you bring up in that post is an example of cel-shading. I don't get how you still don't understand when I literally posted three pictures with clear examples of cel-shading. You say that the light and dark patterns are the textures. That doesn't happen in cel-shading because textures in cel-shading are single, flat colors. That's the whole point of cel-shading. If this game was cel-shaded, it would look nothing like that.