New anime filter: mfToon

[mit_mis]

which version of MaskTools I've got to have? cause on your site there's couple of them

[mf]

142 if you have an Athlon, 149 if you have P4. It's mentioned earlier in the thread, which you would've read if you *really* wanted to solve your problem.

[mit_mis]

I've read it, but... I don't know why I didn't saw that;P

[killerhis]

I dont want to be annoying, but where's the new version :).. its taking too long :cool:

[/edit] DAHM, you reply FAST :D

[mf]

Too busy, not enough motivation.

[mf]

http://www.mufunyo.net/mftoon-osaka.png

[Yuuhi]

:D

[killerhis]

:(

Stop making drawings and get a new version released :P

[mf]

The old one isn't good enough ? There's little to improve.

[killerhis]

Like you.... I want always a better version if possible :cool:

[qverny]

I'm not very good at scripting but I have trouble getting mftoon to work.
I've d/l all necessary filter : Warpsharp, Awarpharp, and Masktools 1.42
But when I load mftoon : Invalid argument to fonction MaskedMerge line 83.
Can you tell where I when wrong?
And I liked to know also if in normal parameter : could I change the number like in strenght,wblr etc...

Thx

[Yuri Khan]

I like the script but there’s one problem. If there are many thin lines in the original, after warpsharping they turn into 1..2 pixel lines, creating an annoying shimmering effect. I currently work around it by adding a sharpen=false parameter, but then it loses half the fun :( Any ideas?

[AS]

You can use SSXsharpen() after mftoon(sharpen=false) to get the fun back.

[Yuri Khan]

I’ll need to try that out… I’m looking at mfToon (the part that does the sharpening) and SSXSharpen, they look very similar, except SSXSharpen uses Lanczos resizer and mfToon uses sharp Bicubic, and mfToon also does an aWarpSharp on the result. Something tells me that with the fun will return the grief ;)

Cranking up the supersample factors (ssw, ssh) seems to help, but then it becomes waaay too expensive.

I’ll also make and post clips of some particularly nasty illustrations of the problem.

[Yuri Khan]

When I comment out aWarpSharp, the shimmering stops. Thanks AS.

Here are the samples, as promised:
With aWarpSharp (http://www.demakova.net/~yuri/anime/problems/kiki.warpsharp.avi) (2252K)
No aWarpSharp (http://www.demakova.net/~yuri/anime/problems/kiki.nowarpsharp.avi) (2390K)

[MasterYoshidino]

you have to remember that sharpening anime will amplify both lines AND artifacts that are in the source. AWarpsharp tends to do this.

[ChronoCross]

Suprisingly I'm very excited about someday having a new mftoon. I figured out where he wanted to use greymask and got a pretty impressive speedup with the same results as the standard mftoon. I wonder if mf is delaying the release of a new mftoon because it's speed is so great we may all just die from his prowess at scripting. ;)

[SirCanealot]

Is there any alternate links to the script itself and the plugins mentioned in the first post?
I'm looking to try out MFToon a little, but the links are down. Bleh~

[Soulhunter]

Originally posted by SirCanealot
Is there any alternate links to the script itself and the plugins mentioned in the first post?
I'm looking to try out MFToon a little, but the links are down. Bleh~ Afaik you are a member of mf's forum as well !!!

So, have a look here... (http://mf.onthanet.nl/forum/thread.php?threadid=22&boardid=4&styleid=1&sid=afded35b363879aa8893998736391e02&page=1#1) ;)


Bye

[[MA]Debito]

VirtualDubMod always crashes when I try to run this script:

MPEG2Source("C:\Documents and Settings\Debito\Desktop\Trigun5\Trigun5.d2v",CPU=6,IDCT=6,IPP=True)
Loadplugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\Filters\warpsharp.dll")
Import("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\mfToon-v0.44.avs")
Import("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\mfrainbow-v0.31.avs")
Telecide(Order=1,Guide=1,blend=true,vthresh=75,gthresh=15)
Decimate(cycle=5)
BicubicResize(576,432)
Import("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\mfToon-v0.44.avs")
Import("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\mfrainbow-v0.31.avs")
Mergechroma(ColorYUV(Levels="TV->PC")).Mergechroma(ColorYUV(Levels="TV->PC")).tweak(sat=1.2,cont=1.2,bri

ght=-15)
mfrainbow()
atc(l=0, c=3, b=12, t=0.6)
Convolution3d(preset="AnimeBQ")
mftoon()
dup(threshold=0.8, copy=true, blend=true, maxcopies=20, debug=false)
TextSub("C:\Documents and Settings\Debito\Desktop\SSA\Trigun04.ssa")

Any clues of what's wrong? I'm running VDubMod 1.5.10.1 2439 and AVIsynth 2.5.5. Thanks for the help.

EDIT: It tells me that there is no function named EdgeMask.

[Soulhunter]

Originally posted by [MA]Debito

EDIT: It tells me that there is no function named EdgeMask.
Think you missed this line...

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\Masktools.dll")

Bye

[Mug Funky]

also, you appear to be loading the subs from the previous episode :O

subs are best muxed into the stream - better compression and way more flexibility. WMP comes with a subtitle filter these days, but of course it's best to use something like vobsub. if you're planning on using the encode on other machines, just include the required directshow filters and a reg file to install them and all will be well.

[[MA]Debito]

no and no. First, I have masktools as an autoload, even if i did load it without autoload...still gives me the same problem.

And it doesn't really matter on the subs, as long as the file exists, so that's not it either.

[madness]

Originally posted by [MA]Debito
VirtualDubMod always crashes when I try to run this script:

MPEG2Source("C:\Documents and Settings\Debito\Desktop\Trigun5\Trigun5.d2v",CPU=6,IDCT=6,IPP=True)
Loadplugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\Filters\warpsharp.dll")
Import("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\mfToon-v0.44.avs")
Import("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\mfrainbow-v0.31.avs")
Telecide(Order=1,Guide=1,blend=true,vthresh=75,gthresh=15)
Decimate(cycle=5)
BicubicResize(576,432)
Import("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\mfToon-v0.44.avs")
Import("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\mfrainbow-v0.31.avs")
Mergechroma(ColorYUV(Levels="TV->PC")).Mergechroma(ColorYUV(Levels="TV->PC")).tweak(sat=1.2,cont=1.2,bri

ght=-15)
mfrainbow()
atc(l=0, c=3, b=12, t=0.6)
Convolution3d(preset="AnimeBQ")
mftoon()
dup(threshold=0.8, copy=true, blend=true, maxcopies=20, debug=false)
TextSub("C:\Documents and Settings\Debito\Desktop\SSA\Trigun04.ssa")

Any clues of what's wrong? I'm running VDubMod 1.5.10.1 2439 and AVIsynth 2.5.5. Thanks for the help.

EDIT: It tells me that there is no function named EdgeMask.
Importing the two file twice??
Try remove one of them. I thought loading plugin or import once is enough. :sly:

[[MA]Debito]

says the same thing even with the extra import gone

Edit: Also, I tried using the LoadPlugin() function instead of having MaskTools Autoload and it tells me it's unable to load the plugin MaskTools.dll.

[DeepDVD]

By the way... mf seems to be kidnapped or something ... somebody should engage an investigator or so finding him and getting him back on scratch :D

[ChronoCross]

the Version of masktools you are using is incompatible with mftoon. I had the same problem. you have to use the one from earlier in this thread. in fact it's best to use the ones from this thread because they have been tested with mftoon. ;)

[[MA]Debito]

And which version would this be? Quote or something pweez :)

Edit: Nvm, i found them...Now it tells me there's a problem with MotionMask within mfrainbow.

[Soulhunter]

Originally posted by DeepDVD

By the way... mf seems to be kidnapped or something ... somebody should engage an investigator or so finding him and getting him back on scratch :D

Not kidnapped, he was banned... :sly:

Fortunately he has his own forum (http://mf.onthanet.nl/forum/) !!!


Bye

[ChronoCross]

why was he banned?

[[MA]Debito]

anywho...i solved the problem...i just put in MaskTools 1.4.9 and viola, no more problems! although...13 hours a pass for 24 minute video is a bit much