I have a post processing shader. For simplicity, my post processing shader only shows the _CameraDepthTexture at the given uv. This shader is written in code.
I'm moving to shader graph and I want to have a material for all of my objects and achieve the exact same effect (show the same depth color), althought I can't use Scene Depth node. How can I generate the exact same color for my objects in Shader Graph?
As the depth is related to the distance between the camera and the objects, I'm trying to set the depth like this:
I take the vector (vertex world position - camera world position).
I project this vector into the camera direction vector
I remap this length of the projection vector from (near plane, far plane) to (1, 0)
It looks like my depth is the same as _CameraDepthTexture, but when objects are too close to the camera, they are different (my version is darker).
How can I write a shader without Scene Depth node that generates the exact same color as _CameraDepthTexture? My camera is orthographic with orthographic size 10.4, near = -50 and far = 50.
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I'm a relative Unity noob. I have a fairly simple scene. Currently in the following you will see a plane (object WorldTilemapGfx) and 2 sprites (Tile C: 0 R: 0, and Tile C: 1 R: 0).
In the following picture you see I've selected one of the sprites. Its scale is 1 x 1, and its at position 1, 0.
Now I select the other sprite.
So far the positions and sizes seem ok.
Now if I select the game object with a "plane" mesh it shows in the inspector as scale 2, 1. This is the scale I expect since it is supposed to be as wide as two of the tiles above, and as high as only 1 of them.
However its visually 10 times too big.
If I increase the X scale of one of my tiles by 10, then the relative sizes between tile and plane look ok
Also the image used for my tile is 256 x 256.
Can someone suggest what I am missing? Thanks.
See Unity Mesh Primitives
Plane
This is a flat square with edges ten units long oriented in the XZ plane of the local coordinate space. It is textured so that the whole image appears exactly once within the square. A plane is useful for most kinds of flat surface, such as floors and walls. A surface is also needed sometimes for showing images or movies in GUI and special effects. Although a plane can be used for things like this, the simpler quad primitive is often a more natural fit to the task.
whereas
Quad
The quad primitive resembles the plane but its edges are only one unit long and the surface is oriented in the XY plane of the local coordinate space. Also, a quad is divided into just two triangles whereas the plane contains two hundred. A quad is useful in cases where a scene object must be used simply as a display screen for an image or movie. Simple GUI and information displays can be implemented with quads, as can particles, sprites
and “impostor” images that substitute for solid objects viewed at a distance.
Ok.. confirmed using a Quad gave me what I expected in scale.. I now understand that the underlying plane mesh is actually 10 x 10 in size.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/really-dumb-question-scale-of-plane-compared-to-cube.33835/#:~:text=aNTeNNa%20trEE%20said%3A-,The%20plane%20is%20a%2010x10%20unit%20mesh.,a%20quick%20floor%20or%20wall.
I need a shader which I can apply to a surface, and have it tile a texture at a constant size. Think 'stretchable brick wall' I looked at this world shader hoping I could adapt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIh_6xtBwsI&ab_channel=JustinFoley
The problem with world UV's is they only project along the major axes. I need it to follow the rotation of the object, just not affected by scale.
This is what I was trying:
But as you can imagine, it is still affected by scale, and appears to align with the y plane:
So, I want to make scene same to this Sphere Scene
Now I have mesh with random generation as a ground and a sphere. But I dont't know how to cull off spheres geometry above mesh. Tried to use Stencil, and hightmap. Stencil rendered ground in front, but sphere above ground is still rendered. Using heightmap, to get know if it needs to render (I compared height map and worldPos) is problematic, because the texture is superimposed over the all sphere, and not projected onto it. Can you help. Is there any shader function to cull off all above mesh.
I did something similar for an Asteroids demo a few years ago. Whenever an asteroid was hit, I used a height map - really, just a noise map - to offset half of the vertices on the asteroid model to give it a broken-in-half look. For the other half, I just duplicated the asteroid model and offset the other half using the same noise map. The effect is that the two "halves" matched perfectly.
Here's what I'd try:
Your sphere model should be a complete sphere.
You'll need a height map for the terrain.
In your sphere's vertex shader, for any vertex north of the equator:
Sample the height map.
Set the vertex's Y coordinate to the height from the height map. This will effectively flatten the top of the sphere, and then offset it based on your height map. You will likely have to scale the height value here to get something rational.
Transform the new x,y,z as usual.
Note that you are not texturing the sphere. You're modifying the geometry. This needs to happen in the geometry part of the pipeline, not in the fragment shader.
The other thing you'll need to consider is how to add the debris - rocks, etc. - so that it matches the geometry offset on the sphere. Since you've got a height map, that should be straightforward.
To start with, I'd just get your vertex shader to flatten the top half of the sphere. Once that works, add in the height map.
For this to look convincing, you'll need a fairly high-resolution sphere and height map. To cut down on geometry, you could use a plane for the terrain and a hemisphere for the bottom part. Just discard any fragment for the plane that is not within the spherical volume you're interested in. (You could also use a circular "plane" rather than a rectangular plane, but getting the vertices to line up with the sphere and filling in holes at the border can be tricky.)
As I realised, there's no standard way to cull it without artifacts. The only way it can be done is using raymarching rendering.
So, I have a functioning voxel engine that creates smoothed terrain in chunks of 1x1x1 meter in a 1024 radius around my player.
I wanted to create a geometry shader that not only continues to texture the ground appropriately, but also creates grass (preferably waving with the wind).
I have found some basic billboard geometry shaders to get me started, but they seem to cause the mesh to stop texturing. Is there anyway to do both from one shader?
Do I pass the mesh triangles and the new grass triangles on to the fragment shader with a flag? Thanks in advance!
You can do this by implementing two passes to the shader as it turns out. My first pass is a simple surface shader, but my second pass is the geometry shader. The multi-pass still results in 130 FPS, so it seems to be adequate.
i have a standard plane created with unity and replaced its mesh filter (that had 121 tri, 202 vertices) with a mesh filter made in blender that has 2 tri/4 vertices.
if i set the material up with a texture, i get only a very small portion of the texture drawn on the plane. How can i draw the full texture on the new plane?
You need to adjust your UV mapping so that the 4 vertices cover the whole image. Take a look at the this demo file especially at the UV scene layout.
If a texture shows that way it means either the UVs of the imported model are wrong or the texture tilling or offset in the material are wrong.
Instead of importing a mesh for such simple shape you can create one procedurally in code like this: https://github.com/doukasd/Unity-Components/blob/master/ProceduralPlane/Assets/Scripts/Procedural/ProceduralPlane.cs