Deferred Decals Built in with new SRP ?

Hi,

Was wandering if you thinking of having a built in decals solution with the new SRP coming.
Decals is a must have feature in pretty every other engine out there.

Thanks

 

Yes, SRP supports decals. I'm not really sure how to use them right now but there is a "Decal Projector" Component under GameObject->Render Pipeline>High Definition-> DecalProjector and every material has "Enable Decal" toggle.

 

Awesome !

 

Use the projector and reference a material with the decal shader. You'll get the main texture projected onto.. everything.

 

Tried doing that few hours, didn't work. Does it work for you?

 

You even get a neat little decal stamper icon too

 

Yes, it works. Now that I downloaded 1.26, it seems to take a bit to update though.

 

Projector are really bad performance though. It's not deferred decal.

 

Do you think? I tried 200 decals without any noticable change in performance.

 

I'm talking about Unity Projector, the old one. haven't tried the new thing yet. The version I have right now doesn't have a Decal option in maerial, might need to update

 

It's not a decal option (well, there is one for transparent materials, but you don't need it), you need to use HDRenderPipeline/Decal shader

 

Love to see this in action, anyone got some screen shots to pimp and talk about performance, pros and cons?

 

Do they work with semitransparency+shadows?

 

With 2018.1.0b4 , new project with HD Template I got that:

 

@Ziboo Delete Library folder

 

Tried but still failed to compile

 

Click on the shader in your project window and reimport it. It'll either be available or you'll get an error message in the inspector. If some kernel is missing, search for the key word (lighting, subsurface scattering etc.) and reimport the hlsl include. After that, reimport the decal shader.

 

This is the error message:

Code (CSharp):

1. failed to open source file: 'ShaderLibrary/SampleUVMapping.hlsl'
2. Compiling Vertex program
3. Platform defines: UNITY_ENABLE_REFLECTION_BUFFERS UNITY_USE_DITHER_MASK_FOR_ALPHABLENDED_SHADOWS UNITY_PBS_USE_BRDF1 UNITY_SPECCUBE_BOX_PROJECTION UNITY_SPECCUBE_BLENDING UNITY_ENABLE_DETAIL_NORMALMAP SHADER_API_DESKTOP UNITY_LIGHT_PROBE_PROXY_VOLUME UNITY_LIGHTMAP_FULL_HDR

Cannot reimport the hlsl since it is build in and not in the project view...

 

It's in Core/CoreRP/ShaderLibrary/Sampling/

 

Again, use the build in template from 2018.1.0b4. Nothing in the project view

 

Same here.

 

does anyone know if lightweight is going to have decals? I know is forward rendering so im not sure if it can

 

Right now when you check decals scripts/shaders on github there is info only about HDRP, @SebLagarde are they HD only?

 

How does Unreal do it, and why can't you guys do the same thing? I just want to be able to place bullet holes in a performant way.

 

Unreal has a very different pipeline, so answering that question will unlikely lead to anything useful I am afraid.

If this is all you want to do, what is stopping you from doing this now? How many bullet holes are you trying to place that you cant do this now? Why not do the 3D decal method, using a GPU instanced shader. Then you could place 1000s of them and have them mostly cost a single draw per shader pass etc

Unity developers have not been forgoing decals up until now, we have gotten around them not being directly supported in the shader for a long time. Also a lot of games do it this way anyway. both methods have pros/cons.

 

Will this ever come to the core render pipeline or LW SRP?

 

Why you think it's completely different?

 

You can check the source code here: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/ScriptableRenderPipeline - seems quite different to me.

 

Decals render by ID materials/objects, last created material/object render last:


But, after reloading editor, decals render mess:

 

Answers about Decals:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/fee...-render-pipelines.470095/page-13#post-3504724

 

I just unable to make Decal Projector work. I've got a simple png texture with transparency, material with HDRP/Decal shader and Blend Factor set to my texture. Floor material with HDRP/Lit shader and "Enable decals" toggled on.
Material preview in project view is pitch black and Decal Projector do nothing.

May be I need to set some specific texture import settings? I just can't find any info about new decals

 

I tried it too, all the same
I also tried to project decal on simple plane with DefaultHDMaterial

 

It may sound dumb, but does it really intersect with the floor?

 

I double checked it)

 

Check the HRDP asset. I had to go there and manually enable the decal buffer before I could get it to work.

 

Thanks! I didn't notice that toggle in settings)

 

No problem.
If you ask me, documentation on these previews can't come fast enough. It's a real headache to have to crawl the internet, hoping that someone else figured it out for you~

 

I'm curious whether we'll see any improvements to decals in the near future? Specifically, the following three features are important to me:

Emission: I'm using emission on another decal system, and I'd like to use it here too.

Angle Limits: Currently, decals looks silly if they get drawn on anything other than a perfectly flat surface. Here's a tire track decal I made, which draws stripes on the sides of this cube:



Ideally I could adjust the angle (relative to the decal's direction) to draw on. Even if I make the decal extremely thin, you'll still see a weird line on the bottom of the cube.

Limited to specific objects: I use decals to put burn marks on dynamic objects. As the objects move, the decal goes with them. However, I only want that decal to affect the specific mesh I've placed it on.

 

Pretty sure for tyre marks you're using the wrong tool for the job, try a trail renderer with decal material (it works on meshes).


But regarding box projection, I don't know of any projected decal system that can do triplanar mapping as well...

 

I've been using Decalicious for decals in the built-in rendering engine. While it doesn't do triplanar mapping, it does include an angle limit such that if the angle is too great, it just don't draw anything at all on that surface. That's all I was hoping for here.

 

That sounds decent yeah. Why not post that here: https://forum.unity.com/threads/feedback-wanted-high-definition-render-pipeline.560653/page-3

As it's monitored more.

 

So what is the best and performat approach for placing 1000's of 2d decals (like blood, 2d stones and 2d foliage) on a unity terrain? Presumably the terrain would be using a 3rd party shader like CTS or Microsplat, so the shader itself would not be rendering the decals. So the decals would have to be extra geometry.. ?

 

It matters what pipeline you're using. You can't use those shaders in HDRP. But you an use HDRP decals on HDRP terrain fine as far as I know. I am not sure why you mention extra geometry unless you want to make mesh decals like star citizen.

 

Is there any way now, to use SRP decals with mobile? I couldn't find any nice asset to draw pictures on by book (pages are not strait)