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Custom shader for unlit wall to receive uniform shadow without gradients?

Discussion in 'Shaders' started by nicmarxp, Jul 11, 2019.

  1. nicmarxp

    nicmarxp

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    I'm testing my 2D game in a 3D environment, to make use of lighting and colliders, similar to how Enter the gungeon was made.

    In the pictures below, I have a cube (fridge) and an orthographic camera angled down 22 degrees, and a point light to the right.

    We hand draw textures that have shadows, but we want some objects to cast shadows on floors and walls. However, I want to avoid any gradients, and only have either 100% the original unlit color, or a shadow, for example 30% black.

    I made an illustration of three images:
    1) Unlit shader, here it doesn't receive any shadows, it's 100% unlit
    2) Standard shader, it receives shadows correctly, but the wall is gradiently coloured depending on the position of the light
    3) Custom shader (Faked in photoshop) what I want it to look like.

    Also I'd like the same material (the fridge) to react to light, but only "all or nothing", so if there is a blue light for example, the entire fridge is tinted blue, without any gradients. But I guess this might be a different part of the shader?

    Thanks for any ideas!

     
  2. bgolus

    bgolus

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  3. nicmarxp

    nicmarxp

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    Thanks! We are currently going back to fully 2D to cut down on development time, we'll see if this gets useful later.. :)