Feedback HDRP Particle System Shaders

we can resume how got hdrp particle at this time ? please

 

Hi, I am using Unity 2019.1.10f1 with HDRP 5.16.1. An hour ago I downloaded the Unity Particle Pack assets and tried to create a simple dust storm. I then downloaded ParticlesShaders-HDRP5.7.2-2019.zip and switched the particle material shaders to ParticleLit. For the "biggest" part of the particle textures this works, however I get unpleasant looking specular spots as a reflection from the sky light:



These spots are only visible when looking into the same direction as the directional sky light is radiating. Its a rather tight viewing angle/cone - outside of it they are not visible.
Also there is this vertex stream/shader input mismatch for the TANGENT and TEXCOORD streams. I could find and add the TANGENT stream to the particle system, but there is no TEXCOORD stream to be found. I don't even know if this is connected to the specular spot artifacts since the UV mapping of the dust texture seems to be correct. Any idea?

 

Thank you so far. Can you give me a clue where to start? I haven't yet worked with Shader Graph but I programmed (extended and edited) two or three shaders so far. Is it possible to update the shaders that you provided and match the streams in Shader Graph or do I have to manually code this?

As for the TANGENT stream: I do not require any normal mapping in my particles - what exactly do you mean "if the shader graph is using normal mapping?" - I don't know if it uses normal mapping. Do you even talk about the shader graph shaders that you provide?

As for the TEXCOORD/UV stream: I assume flipbooks are this kind of sprite maps/texture atlas with multiple versions of the same particle texture. If so then I have to say yes, the dust storm examples from the Unity Particle Pack use such particle textures. I use the ParticleLitFlipbook shader now but the result is still the same - and like before the UV mapping is correct.

 

Erh, the "Color over Lifetime" doesnt work with HDRP yet?

I am running Unity 2019.1.11f1
And i run HDRP 5.16.1

And i am using HDRP/unlit material.

But i lose control over fading via color over lifetime. Can i fade in and out another way until it's fixed?

 

You need particle shader which has vertex color node.

 

I noticed in HDRP the particles will be very bright at certain camera angles and camera pitches, but then can also go completely "black" at other camera angles. What causes this? And is there a way to tell the particles or the camera not to do that?

The particles look good at a few specific camera angles, then when I "look down" with my camera the particles go completely black and it is really unrealistic.

I tried adding in another directional light into my scene to try to keep the particles from "going black", which helped a little bit, but still doesn't fix the problem. I know it's probably a realistic camera feature with light or something, but I want my particles to stop doing that.

 

Is there support for fog for the HDRP particle shaders? I read in the docs that the fog node only works with LWRP/URP.

 

So there is a checkbox for "Receive Fog" in the HDRP master nodes. However, it doesn't work in all cases.

All the included HDRP ParticleUnlit* shaders have the box checked. Receiving fog works for all of them except the "ParticleUnlit" shader. That one only receives fog if you connect a Scene Depth node or a Position node set to View, which the other shaders have.

Not sure why receiving fog doesn't get activated for that one. Perhaps some code is not included?

I created a bug report for it: 1192876

Hopefully someone can take a look at it.

 

I was using the Unity Partcle Pack in my project and then update it to HDRP and all this particles FXs started to work wird with pink looking veheivior or stoped to work at all. This new Shader Graph don't seems to fix the problem and I have tried with all of the new shadders. Any recomendation? Please Help!

 

Aparently I don't. But if you tell me how, I can do it. Thank you!

 

Sorry I already see the "Report a Bug" documentation. I'm working on that

 

it would be nice to have one official Material Upgrader script of this, tons of Unity Assets Store FX are build in legacy shader. I tried to write my own upgrader, but there is no docs, i'm quite blind scripting though.

 

@richardkettlewell (or anybody who might be able to help?) - have you any advice on how to get transparent particles to sort with one another as well as the world correctly? I'm attempting to fix an FX pack that we got on the store, the shaders of which appear to work, but throw up all kinds of red errors, so I'm recreating the materials using Hdr shaders.

The main problem I have right now appears to come from the Depth Test settings - the only one that appears to sort the particles correctly is 'NotEqual' - all others give really bad results (due to the many overlapping particles in place, they pop in and out jarringly over the lifetime).

'NotEqual ' displays them all reasonably well, but sorts them on top of the world - see attached image where the source shader clips off at the ground, whereas the Hdr shader shows the effect beneath the ground rendered on top. Accurate sorting of the particles is not essential as they combine together, but I do need to be able to sort with the surrounding objects.

Any advice or insights in how to approach or solve this would be greatly appreciated! -Thx!


Using Unity 2019.2.12f1

 

I'm in the same situation, I would like an upgrade for legacy particles.
Lots of asset store packs are using the original Particles/Unlit shader

My test on a store pack:
Select an effect and check its material settings in Built-in project:

Note the Albedo map set with a texture



In HDRP project change the shader type to ShaderGraph Unlit (I picked soft by mistake but that doesn't matter for the example)

The main first issue here is that it loses the Albedo map. That can be a big pain for large packs to set that manually.
Other thing as a non expert (at all) is that the setttings are very different from just:
Rendering Mode [Opaque/Cutout/Fade/Transparent/Additive....]
Color Mode [Multiply/Additive/Substractive...]

to the new settings.

The effect at least is not pink anymore, it kind of work (project lighting is totally not the same obviously)
Main issue so far are the shadows that are completely off:
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So, long story short is: A tutorial and most of all, a converter script (even in beta with manual selection of the materials etc) would be really great..

@richardkettlewell if by any chance you read this I'm eager to know what the team stands for regarding this topic

 

It's been a while since i'm messing with shuriken in HDRP but try to enable Alpha Clipping for the shadow issue

 

@richardkettlewell
Hi, I've tested HDRP shaders from the Sample package that comes with HDRP render pipeline.

It seems like they no longer use black color from the texture as transparency. (Lit / SoftLit)
Is that intentional, or will be changed in the future?

Swapping black to transparent isn't a big deal for me, if its a standard now.

Thanks.

 

Built-in.

I was using legacy shaders (Legacy Shaders/Particles/~Additive-Multiply and Mobile/Particles/Additive) prior to the HDRP port.

So this might've changed a while back.

 

Also, I've noticed that rotation is respected differently when using these shaders.
Had to rotate the actual object to fix it.

 

Me neither. However, I had to turn some of them to the 270, because they were not emitting to the up direction, but rather to one of the sides after switching a shader on the material.

 

How do I copy particle system shader and material form HDRP 7.31 preview asset?
When I press CTRL +C and CTRL+P in my own folder nothing happens.

 

Hi, I was wondering, I am possible to convert Legacy Shaders/Particles/Additive to HDRP? It is last material i cannot get to work for the WormHole tunnel. Thx

 

1. Is it possible to make a particle shader that receives light? HDRP here.

2. It's really frustrating in general not to have light info for shaders. What are we supposed to do without light nodes in Shader Graph or light info available in our custom shaders, when we're using HDRP? I still haven't found a good answer to that question, despite doing several searches in the past year. I might be using the wrong search terms, though.

 

Thanks for answering

Well, I'm actually using Amplify, so that's another story, but this "no light info available in custom, written shaders" is what is nearly forcing me to leave HDRP for SRP or whatever renderer that has light info available. I understand that HDRP is fundamentally different and thus doesn't have the same structure allowing for the same light info being available, but there must have been some thoughts as to what your users were supposed to do instead, right? Light info has always been there, and now it suddenly isn't. How do we gain the same control in our custom shaders?

 

Im using HDRP 11.0.0 where can I get the relevant particle shaders to make all my old particle systems work? are the ones in this thread still relevant?

 

Why are lit versions of the shaders so extremely expensive? Especially when getting close to them they drop the framerate tenfold.
And should the Distortion variants of the shaders be casting a supernova emission without an ability to control the strength?

Using Unity 2021.1.12f1 (64-bit)

 

Because lit shaders are physically based with lighting, and the overdraw from particles means that it's done multiple times per pixel.

To solve this, most games use cheaper shaders for lit particles that usually aren't PBR and also use opaque rendering, not transparent, but with screen door effect.

Because it's pretty expensive doing full PBR with just one pass so imagine with particles not being able to prevent overdraw? With opaque rendering, there is no overdraw for depth failed pixels (stuff behind other stuff is discarded).

I'd recommend sourcing or making a non physically based lit shader for particles. Failing that you can make it render a bit faster using the Low Resolution option under Rendering Pass, which exists because lit transparency is so slow.

In short it's expected and you should design around it.

 

So basically use it for particle systems that just need a few particles active at one time and are far from the camera?

 

I didn't say that as a basically. I said as a basically, write or find another shader that isn't PBR, like most AAA games do.

Then you can have quite a lot more particles and it should look identical. But if you don't want to, then use the low res option under transparency to claw back some more speed.

Particles will always be slower close up which is why both VFX and regular Particle Systems have a feature to cap how big they can get, regardless if it's an expensive shader or not, since overdraw is the big problem with transparent rendering.

 

Why doesnt the examples come with the non-PBR variants? Also they are using the new visual graph thing, so im guessing it should be relatively easy to convert it to a non-PBR lit shader?

 

I think the problem came from my used textures, though im not sure how that affects it in HDRP

 

Is it possible to have volumetric smoke in HDRP that responds to nearby lights?

 

This pack sorely needs some work. These shaders are incredibly limited compared to what's available in the built-in pipeline.

 

I'm a bit confused why you think the shipped ones would work. Distortion isn't tagged, and the Combine node isn't connected up. This is the shipped shader in the 11.0.0 sample package.

 

Submitted as Case 1405493.

Honestly tho, all of the HDRP particle shaders (for 11.0.0) seem broken. The soft Unlit just doesn't work. Looking into the shader shows that you're multiplying the far plane of the camera by zero. That can't be right?

 

hello, are these shaders still relevant? if so, can you help me understand how to add soft particles subshader to unlit shader?

 

Is there an updated package for HDRP 12.1.6 or will the package for v.6 work?