About Paid Screen Tone Materials

3D Manga Studios provides optional paid screen tone materials to broaden your expression. These are sold as paid assets on SUPERHIVE (formerly Blender Market). By purchasing, you can achieve richer manga styles.

Notes

You can use non-dedicated materials, but Manga Tone Shader effects may not work correctly and the following issues could occur:

Freeze	Broken material

Blender may freeze
Materials may fail to display (pink/purple)

For stability, using the dedicated materials is strongly recommended.

Registering Screen Tone Materials to the Asset Browser

Extract the downloaded "Manga Tone Shaders.zip".

The structure will be:

Manga Tone Shaders/
        ├──── ★Shader Screen tones/
        │  ├──── JP/
        │  │  └──── Screen shader tones/
        │  │      ├── Screen shader tones.blend
        │  │      └── Readme_JP.txt
        │  └──── US_UK/
        │      └──── Screen shader tones/
        │          ├── Screen shader tones.blend
        │          └── Readme_JP.txt
        ├──── ★UnShader Screen tones/
        │  ├──── JP/
        │  │  └──── Screen tones/
        │  │      ├── Screen tones.blend
        │  │      └── Readme_US_UK.txt
        │  └──── US_UK/
        │      └──── Screen tones/
        │          ├── Screen tones.blend
        │          └── Readme_US&UK.txt
        └──────── Manga Tone Shader/
                ├── Manga Tone Shader.blend
                ├── Readme_JP.txt
                └── Readme_US&UK.txt

Go to Edit > Preferences.
Open File Paths tab.
Scroll to Asset Libraries and click Open Folders.
In the extracted folder, open the "★UnShader Screen tones" folder, then choose JP (Japanese) or US_UK (English) and select the path under "Screen tones". Click Open Folder.
Save preferences and close.
Split an area and change the editor to Asset Browser.
From the Library dropdown, select the newly registered "Screen tones" library.

Screen Tone Materials List

Available dedicated screen tones:

Material	Preview	Description
Faded Crosshatch Tone		Crosshatch with faded analog feel.
Halftone Dots		Basic halftone dots for shadows or clothing patterns.
Hatch Tone A		Simple diagonal hatch.
Hatch Tone B		Denser than Hatch A.
Hatch Tone C		Even denser; suitable for darker shadows.
Noisy Halftone		Irregular noisy halftone for gritty feels.
Parallel Lines Tone		Parallel lines; good for backgrounds and speed effects.
Sand Grain Tone		Sand-like grains for rough textures or light shadows.
Pencil-like Overlap Tone		Pencil-styled overlapping hatch for hand-drawn looks.
4-Way Hatch Tone		Four-way hatch for very dense tone or special textures.

Using with Manga Tone Shader

These materials work best combined with Manga Tone Shader.

Steps

Open the Asset Browser.
Choose a material in the Screen tones library.
Open the Manga Tone Shader properties on the object. Drag & drop the material into the drop slot below a target color input (Shadow, Highlight, etc.).

Before After
Adjust dropped material properties (scale, rotation, etc.) as needed.

Before After