Question Does texturing with Heightmap is available on Unity ?

Hi everyone, I'm trying to generate a procedural Voxel map and I want to apply PBR textures on it.

My goal is to reproduce something like TimberBorn, where we can see that edge of their cube are not strait but have deformation following the texture (texture heightmap?):



So I bought some PBR Texture (like this one) pack containing for every texture:
- base color
- normal
- heightmap
- ambient Occlusion
- roughness

So I opened the pack and this is the difference between what I bought (left - the previous on the store) and what I have as Material in Unity (right), as you can understand I'm not happy with the result ^-^
(When I opened the package on Unity all materials was pink, so I did Edit > Render Pipeline > Universal Render Pipeline > Update Project Materials to UniversalRP Materials, it may come from here ?)


- First question (maybe dumb but I'm really not good for graphics ^^), Do both of those render are done with the same mesh ? Or the first is using another mesh to render rocks on a sphere ?

- Second question, I tried to implement those texture by creating a new Shader Graph (v10.0 using Unity 2020.3) but I PBR Master Node isn't here anymore, I understand that was replaced by Vertex/Fragment, but they only give option to setup Base Color + Normal (How to I add Heightmap ??). I also tried using a unity material shader but didn't found any with all options (URP/Autodesk Interactive/autodesk Interactive have everything BUT not heightmap..)

- Third question (only if it's not possible to create those deformation using texture heightmap): Can I reproduce those mesh update using a Shader ? (and not have to be generated by my voxel mesh generator?)

 

The image on the left was probably created with a simple sphere model which was then modified on the GPU to have extra geometry protruding using a technique called Tessellation (which calculates the protrusions based on a height map). This was introduced with DirectX 11. As far as I know, this is only supported in Unity with HDRP, but not in URP or the built-in pipeline.

 

Second image is use tessellation shader. First image may use parallax shader? not sure.

And it is not relate to render pipeline. So it is possible to do it in Built-in, HDRP, or URP.
You buy one in asset store if you not familiar with writing shader.

 

Okay.. As usual the "It's works but not in this Unity version/RP" answer as been posted (it's should be the headline for Unity, with "It's work but not with ___")


lilacsky824 thank you for the your answer, I decide to bought this asset to test tessellation shader: https://assetstore.unity.com/packag...dvanced-tessellation-shader-82066#description
But I cannot make it works..

Do you have any resources (video, article, asset store, ...) about Unity + Tessellation shader for Unity 2020 and actual version of shader (I found some links but they are all from 2017-2018 and did not works anymore)
Thanks

 

Hi Valentin, Thank for your answer and explanations.
I know how to use ShaderGraph and write (very) simple Shader but didn't know about all those tech.
I knew that Shader can update vertices positions but just learning about Tessellation, Displacement, high density sphere, .. Very interesting

I tried to open my URP project on 2021.2 but cannot found any LitTessellation node, so try to create an empty project, install HDRP and Shader graph, but didn't found either Tessellation node.

But in all case look like it's too much effort (even more on cubes because Displacement on edge of the cube create artifacts crack who need additional works to fix) and isn't worth it.
You say that in a game (like TimberBorn where the first screen is taken), where you'll have to run map of hundred x hundred cube, it's better to add directly some vertices in the mesh generator better than handling it by shader ?
Interesting. I'll make some test on my project.

Thank you again