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Feedback Wanted: Shader Graph

Discussion in 'Graphics Experimental Previews' started by Kink3d, Jan 10, 2018.

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  1. mosaic_school

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    EEVEE NPR ! - Blender 2.8 Code Quest


    Awesome feature!. It would be so cool if there would be something equivalent in the Unity ShaderGraph that will allow us to use it for things like Toon shading.
     
  2. sand_lantern

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    I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to turn a vector4 into a texture. It doesn't appear that there is any functionality like that. Specifically what I'm doing is applying a Power Function to a Texture, I'd then like to feed that back into another texture. Is this a limitation in the shader graph, or just an inherently stupid request on my part?
     

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  3. Jesus

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    In that example, why not just plug the UV stuff into the left hand lava texture sampler?

    The sampler really only exists to change how you would sample a texture, like accessing a mip, filtering modes (bilinear, etc) or whatever; properties of the texture file that already exist. It doesn't make sense to ask for that information, or give it to, a vector4 or anything else.
     
  4. LuizBeenoculus

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    Hello, how i can get just one value from a Vector4 output?
     
  5. MadeFromPolygons

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    just swizzle?

    so if it is a Vector4/Float4 called someVector, and you want the "x" or "y" or "z" or "w" part, you just do

    someVector.x

    or someVector.y

    or someVector.z

    or someVector.w

    and can combine in any order (swizzle) such as

    Vector2 xy = someVector.xy;

    or

    Vector2 xw = someVector.xw;

    can even do

    Vector4 xzxz = someVector.xzxz;
     
  6. Antypodish

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    Unless there is better option to get xyzw, or by index, then:
    Not the best solution, but I think you could try for now, to multiply (Math>Basic) Vector4 by another Vector4 lets say ( 1, 0, 0, 0) to get x. And then, get the Distance (Math>Vector) from that vector, to Vector4.zero.
     
  7. Antypodish

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    Channel > Swizzle seams do the job.
    Would Channel > Split work in this case as well (appears to be simpler {cheaper?} method)?
     
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  8. sand_lantern

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    Sure, I guess this was sort of a simplified test case though. I ran into another situation where I wanted to use a noise generation effect and feed that in as uv map chanels (please excuse me if I'm using incorrect terminology, I'm a programmer not an artist!)

    As you can see in this example, I have two noise textures, that I offset over time. Originally I tried to do this by using the built in noise generators, but I was unable to actually get them to connect to the texture nodes. I ended up having to make them externally and link them in. What I would like (I think) is one of two things:

    1) Be able to turn a vector4 back into a texture so that I can apply a UV map to it.

    2) Be able to offset things without using a UV map, you can see all the extra work this shader takes in order to just slide a texture around that eventually gets turned back into a UV again.

    https://imgur.com/a/lRDIZa3
     
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  9. Luckymouse

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    A little request, Can we have a "Vertex interpolator" node in later update version?;)
     
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  10. FreeGameDev

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    It does not appear that shadows are being cast from shadergraph materials. Using 1.1.6.

    Ignore the texture in the standard shader, just showing shadow.
     
  11. Grimreaper358

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    Might want to update then
    I'm on 1.1.8 and shadows are fine for me. I didn't use 1.1.6 so I'm not sure if shadows are broken in that version or not.
     
  12. FreeGameDev

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    Where is 1.1.8? In the packages the highest is 1.1.6.
    I think I'm using the latest beta 2018.2.0b4?
     
  13. Grimreaper358

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    You have to use the staging registry in the manifest file for the project because these aren't fully released packages

    Add this to the file - "registry": "https://staging-packages.unity.com"

    Code (csharp):
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    2. {
    3.   "registry": "https://staging-packages.unity.com",
    4.   "dependencies": {
    5.     "com.unity.render-pipelines.lightweight": "1.1.8-preview",
    6.   }
    7. }
    8.  
     
  14. FreeGameDev

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    great thanks, will give it a try.
     
  15. asa989

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    I dont have blackboard to make properties and it was following my mouse before it disappear. i cant use textures and all setting are in picture. any thoughts?! :) i think im missing something simple!!

    Edit: If i make new project, everything is gonna be fine.(problem will remain in previews projects) but after couple minutes the blackboard will be disappear.
     

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  16. FreeGameDev

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    no dice. Same thing... I even tried the master branch of shader graph, again no change.
    Although... I have shadows when it first loads. But after I select the fern it disappears.
     
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  17. Jesus

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    While I can't really offer 100% advice because the pic is too small, I can say this:

    Noise is fed UV channels, so if you want to generate 'distorted noise' you generate the distortion (be it noise or some other means), then plug that into the UV channels of the noise generator you want to distort.

    I know it's a bit weird, but if you remember that noise is just a math operation on whatever coordinated it's fed (usually plain old UVs), by distorting what it's fed, you distort the output in the same, predictable way.
     
  18. MadeFromPolygons

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    It might do, I have not actually tried!
     
  19. scheidtventureestate

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    I also do not have a blackboard otherwise I can compose a shader.... though that is pointless without access to parameters... meh
     
  20. Boolai

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    Features that I would like to see. Vertex manipulation. Outline node such as in some toon shaders. A default toon node such as in shader graph's
     
  21. sand_lantern

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    Ah sorry about that. Making gifs is a major pain... The thing I was trying to detail was not distorted noise, but instead scrolled noise. Essentially you have one set of noise that continually scrolls upwards, that way you have blips that stay consistent. Here's hopefully a higher quality gif to better illustrate what I'm trying to accomplish.

    https://imgur.com/a/1TzvExD
     
  22. irenya

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    I managed to make it stay by never resizing the shader editor window.
    It does follow the mouse a lot, seemingly at random times. It's quite annoying
     
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  23. JustinRossL

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    Hi, I have just started using shader graphs, i have a dissolve shader working. However it just keeps repeating the dissolve effect, is there a method to only have this effect happen once on loading the game?
     
  24. andbc

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    Expose the dissolve amount with a parameter and control it from a script.
     
  25. JustinRossL

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    How do you access the material or shader properties through script?
     
  26. Antypodish

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    look in Material properties

    i.e.
    Code (CSharp):
    1. MeshRenderer meshRenderer = this.GetComponent <MeshRenderer> () ;
    2. meshRenderer.materials [0].SetFloat ( "_shaderPropertyName", someValue ) ;
    for _shaderPropertyName look in shader compiled script, and properties with underscore, and some numbers.

    For example
    Code (CSharp):
    1. Properties {
    2. Vector1_4D391D98 ("Opacity", Range(0.000000,1.000000)) = 0.500000
    3. }
    so in C# you use
    Code (CSharp):
    1. meshRenderer.materials [0].SetFloat ( "Vector1_4D391D98", someValue ) ;
     
  27. JustinRossL

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    That worked perfectly! Thank You!
     
  28. whoamiimaohw

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    I have an idea.
    I think Shader Graph allow get GBuffer and use it.It will make create VFX and custom Post Processing easy.
     
  29. MR-Heavy

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    Any news or ETA on tessellation?
     
  30. Andy-Touch

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  31. MadeFromPolygons

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  32. bgolus

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    This is somewhat nonsensical request, but I understand what you're trying to ask. The short answer is no. The longer answer is yes, but not with Shader Graph, or any one shader.

    For a direct answer to 1, a Vector4 value is essentially a single pixel's worth of data, and to make this a texture to sample again would be pointless as it would make a texture with a single pixel, or a single value across all of it's pixels because it is a single value.

    What you're really asking to do is to take all values of a texture, apply some math to it, and save it out as a new texture. That is possible, but that requires using a script that calls a Blit and writes to a render texture. You would have a shader that would have the code of sampling the initial texture with the uv offset (or not), and applying any of the modifications you'd want to that value. Then you would have your second shader that would sample that texture. Certainly many post process effects work this way for various reasons, like doing a separable blur in two passes can be faster than doing the same blur in a single pass, or letting you do the work at a lower resolution than the final use case (also common with blurs and bloom effects).

    "All the extra work" amounts to about 1 or 2 instructions on the GPU. Unity's existing forward rendering path Standard Shader is somewhere between 100 and 200 instructions per forward pass, and the new HD pipeline likely closer to 1000+ effective instructions when using multiple lights and the forward+ path. There are a few shaders that ship with the Post Processing Stack that have tens of thousands of instructions. Saving 2 instructions for offsetting the UV in one shader to add far more overhead on both the GPU and CPU to do it in a blit isn't going to make it any more efficient. Generally you need to be saving several tens or hundreds of of millions of instructions (counting the instructions from every pixel to be rendered across the entire screen) for it to make sense to go this direction. GPUs are very, very fast.

    Plus panning a texture in this fashion would result in some really bad artifacts. It's basically an aliasing / nyquist limit problem.
     
  33. MadeFromPolygons

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    @bgolus I just wanted to say I really appreciate the fact that you take the time to give a detailed answer, it really helps us who are learning!


    FYI everyone, there has been some tasty merges happening over last 24h at https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/ScriptableRenderPipeline/commits/master
    me thinks a package is incoming!
     
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  34. Deadcow_

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    I've got the problem with Shader Graph in our project. When I try to create some simple shaders I've got error message "Shader is not supported on this GPU"

    First of all I imported and set up Lightweight Render Pipeline:

    Then Shadergraph in Package manager. Latest versions I use:

    But at some point shader is breaks and I've got this errors







    Also I tried same graph in the new project with Lightweight RP template and it shows well.
    How to set up existing project to work with Shader Graph?
     
  35. Estecka

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    Coming from ShaderForge, I find shadergraph to be too limited for me on some aspects.

    Will it be possible to output shaderlab code out of a shadergraph ?
    Back in shaderforge, when there was something I couldn't do in the graph, it was usually something I still could do by tweaking the code afterward. (Like merging the passes from multiple graphs into a single shader.)

    I don't know how to write CG code, but I still have an understanding of how the less code intensive bits, (passes, tags, blending, testing...), do work. It's mostly these bits I wish shadergraph would do more in-depth; I could do without, but that's what I'd need the final code for.

    On the good hands, I love subgraph assets. Being able to reuse a graph across multiple shaders is going to be great; that would be the tool I'll use the most.
     
  36. MythrilMan51

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    Same here.. THIS TIME, I see pink EVERYWHERE... And before I updated.
     
  37. AurelWu

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    can you check if your decimal delimiter might be something different than "." - I had exactly the same
    Can you both check if the decimal delimiter in unity shows up as something different than a "." . I had the exact same problem because for some reason unity used "," as decimal limiter (because of german language settings - even with overridden decimal delimiter in the windows settings).

    Edit: in one of the screenshots I can somewhat clearly make out that there is "," as decimal delimiter. I am quite sure shader graph then puts that "," into the generated code instead of a "." which causes all the problems.

    The only fix I found so far for that problem is to change the language in windows to a language which uses "." by default. Using a language which uses something else by default and then changing the delimiter did sadly not work for me.
     
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  38. wyatts

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    Is there a way to duplicate procedural shapes (other than tiling) with the shader graph? Like multiple copies of a shape randomly placed on a sphere? Also would that be possible with clamped textures as well?
     
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  39. Andy-Touch

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    Right click the master node, copy the shader and paste it in a text editor of your choice. :)
     
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  40. Andy-Touch

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    For Clamped Textures, use a SS nodes that inputs into the Texture 2D Sampler.
     
  41. TimonSpringlab

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    Can anyone assist me creating a custom node?
    I have also asked this on Unity Answers, probably more appropriate there.

    Overall I am really liking the shader graph. Gives a bit of insight as to how things work but it is extremely accessible.

    I'm new to shaders in general and I'm trying to achieve a Dilate effect combined with other visuals available through nodes already.
    I got the desired effect I want minus the Dilate effect which I've got in a separate shader made by user poisoned_banana here: http://answers.unity.com/answers/1495613/view.html

    I want to turn this Dilate effect into a node so I can apply it together with the effect I've created using Shader graph. I tried this myself using the Custom Node API/Tutorial, but I can't get it to compile, I'm not quite sure which part of the shader I can put into the shader string and which variables to assign to which slots.

    I've illustrated the problem I have in the following image.

    Outside red is my current effect which I want to combine with a custom Dilate effect node to get a sort of outline shader with effects.

    So recap: Is it possible to turn the Dilate effect from http://answers.unity.com/answers/1495613/view.html into a custom node, or is there another way to achieve the same effect (dilated black/white image + effect).
     
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  42. Deadcow_

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    No luck :( The only place it pushes "," instead of "." is Smoothness setting. This time I made new shader from scratch with Smoothness set to 0 and all breaks again
     
  43. AurelWu

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    For me it always breaks if I add a property like vector2 or similar and enter a value which includes a decimal delimiter. And once it is broken it seems to stay broken and you need to create a new shader graph.

    Have you tried setting your language the English (UK) in your operating system (requires unity restart to affect it). At least my problems vanish when doing that.
     
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    Hi everyone,

    (First and foremost, anyone still having issues with the blackboard not appearing, try updating to 1.1.9-preview. It contains a fix for it.)

    We've been busy behind the scenes for the past few weeks. First and foremost, the ShaderGraph repository has been moved inside the ScriptableRenderPipeline repository. This makes it a lot easier for us to do integration with Lightweight and HD pipelines, and to move faster.

    On that note, we've also been doing a directory re-organization in the ScriptableRenderPipeline repository. Previously you had to clone it into your Assets folder. That is no longer the case -- in fact, it's not possible anymore. Instead, you must now clone it outside of your Assets folder (where exactly does not matter). You then modify the package manifest.json of your project to locally refer to the packages, like this:
    Code (JavaScript):
    1. {
    2.     "dependencies": {
    3.         "com.unity.postprocessing": "file:../SRP/com.unity.postprocessing",
    4.         "com.unity.render-pipelines.core": "file:../SRP/com.unity.render-pipelines.core",
    5.         "com.unity.shadergraph": "file:../SRP/com.unity.shadergraph",
    6.         "com.unity.render-pipelines.high-definition": "file:../SRP/com.unity.render-pipelines.high-definition",
    7.         "com.unity.render-pipelines.lightweight": "file:../SRP/com.unity.render-pipelines.lightweight"
    8.     }
    9. }
    10.  
    In this case I've cloned the ScriptableRenderPipeline repository just outside of my assets folder. The file paths are relative to the manifest.json file.

    For users, this makes it much easier to try out the latest and greatest version from GitHub, as the process now is to simply clone the repository and modify the manifest.json file to look like the above. That's it. It also means that our development setup will be a lot more similar to using Shader Graph as a package, and that should allow us to early on experience more of the pain points that users are hitting.

    The master branch currently targets 2018.2 and up, and will continue to do so for a while. We also just branched off into the 2018.2 branch, which is where we will be stabilizing the package that goes into the 2018.2 Editor. As such, the 2018.2 branch will mostly get bug fixes backported.

    Currently in master and 2018.2 branch, you will find new goodies like HD support, vertex position, gradient nodes, editable reference names, not-exposed properties (think _MainTex), 3D textures and 2D texture arrays. This will be going out into a package targeting 2018.2 next week.

    Finally, we've moved to exclusively use the good old Unity Issue Tracker for tracking issues. That means that GitHub Issues are no longer used for this. The latter worked well for us during development, but as we've gone public preview we've run into various limitations.
     
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  45. wyatts

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    Hey Andy, thanks for the reply, but while the Sampler State gives me a clamped texture, I still have no way to duplicated it without tiling. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something as I'm new to shader graphs in general.

    Thanks.
     
  46. mathias234

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    Is there any way to change the internal property name, currently i only see a way to change the display name but the actual property becomes something like Texture_90788A98 which is really not nice in a script to change the properties.
     
  47. Grimreaper358

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    I know for a fact this is present in the recent GitHub master branch but not sure if it's in the latest package release 1.1.9. It if not it will probably be released next week with the next package


     
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  48. mathias234

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    That is good to hear! Its definitly not in the package yet
     
  49. scheidtventureestate

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    oh nice !!!
     
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    I just did this with a simple Vuforia project running on 2018.2.0b5 on Windows 10 and the Webcam is black. I would file an issue, but there seems to already be one: https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/is...ection-method-with-srp-records-a-black-screen

    upload_2018-5-27_15-30-0.png

    Using the packages bundled with Beta 2018.2.0b5, this issue does not occour... so what is this, ah beta bug a package bug ? And how would we file it now?
     
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