HDRP Particles

I understand that the VFX Editor will be coming out soon, but can we get some shaders to work properly with Shuriken, even for Unlit?

Problems I'm seeing:

- Included HDRP Unlit shader does not respond to changes in Shuriken color properties.
- Unlit Shader Graph shaders do not respond to changes in Shuriken color properties.
- Both HDRP Unlit and Shader Graph Unlit shaders do not have soft particles.

The only shaders working now are legacy particle shaders, and soft particles aren't working on those shaders either.

 

In Shuriken for color, shader must use vertex color.

 

I can get Shuriken color properties working in the Shader Graph Unlit shaders using the Vertex Color node, thanks, but not for the included HDRP Unlit shader.

How do we get Soft Particles with Shuriken in HDRP? There is a setting for Soft Particles in the LWRP asset but not for the HDRP asset.

 

We'd also like to know about Soft Particles in HDRP

 

What are the use cases of shuriken particles in HDRP given VFXGraph are much more performant?

 

need help for get particle in hdrp ^^ please

try import ParticlesShaders-HDRP5.3.1-2019.zip
but on 2019.1 ^^

 

Just curious, has the soft-particles issue been resolved yet? Or is that still under development?

 

I am really waiting and hoping for some particle shaders that work well in HDRP. 2018.3 or 2019.1 specifically, but any versions really.

I really want a cloud shader that works. I've been waiting for a month and a half now (since end of May) and I havn't heard anything about particle shaders that work. Is this being worked on? Is there any advancement in this area?

As I said, all I'm really waiting for is a cloud particle shader that looks pretty real. The HDRP Lit and Lit tessellation shaders work with particles.....but they have a lot of glaring flaws at distance and at certain angles.

The shadergraph ones provided by Unity (richardkettlewell) recently don't work at all for some reason. I'm not blaming richard, I know he's probably working hard on them, but I just can't seem to get them to work. Do I need to use VFX or something?

 

Your instructions say to use HDRP 5.3 in Unity 2019.1, but there is no 5.3 option to install when using Unity 2019.1 for me. I am using Unity version 2019.1.3f1. The lowest HDRP version I see is HDRP 5.7.2.

When I download and unzip the 2019.1 shaders (and place them in my Project->Assets folder) and click the dropdown button on a material to select the shader, it crashes Unity.

In versions of the Editor where I can get the HDRP particle shaders to actually work (for example in Unity 2018.3 with the correct HDRP package version), they just don't do anything. They just show white or grey squares for the particles, and nothing else. That's why I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong somehow?

I have included some pictures to try to help.

 

Wow, thanks richard

I got them kind of working now. I actually got them working in Unity 2018.3 (which is excellent). But in my Unity 2019.1 version, they still crash Unity when I try to select the shader dropdown on a material. I have no idea why, but I'm assuming it's a problem unique to my project. I narrowed it down to the "ParticleLit" shader in particular (I deleted all the others and it still crashed with just the ParticleLit shader in the project).

So I'm going to try another version of Unity sometime to test if it might be version related, but probably not today. If I do, I'll let you know if I have any more problems. But thankfully, I have a version that works now!

Thank you very much for the updates.

 

So does this mean that soft particles are now (in HDRP 6.8.1) working with VFX graph and HDRP shaders? If I understand your previous posts correctly then the mentioned Shader Graph bug also prevented soft particles with VFX graph and not just with the dated particle system?! It's my assumption since in HDRP and VFX graph 5.16 I don't get soft particles although enabled in the VFX output node.

 

Thanks...I found it and it fixed the issue.

 

HDRP existed in publicly available form for more than half of 2017, but it was in a rather immature state back then.

 

Thank you but I just found out that it's not a bug, just me being dumb
From my other thread regarding my particular problem:

 

I was just trying out the soft particle shader in 2019.2, with HDRP 6.9.1, and I'm not getting the results I was expecting / hoping for. My expectation was that the "softness" we're referring to with respect to particles would apply to the hard edges they create when particles pass through other geometry. That's what happened under the built-in renderer with soft particles. But that doesn't seem to be behaving in this way using the shaders provided. Here's a gif of what I'm currently seeing:



This is using the "ParticleUnlitSoft" shader from the download link:



Note how there are hard edged along the floor here where the particles pass through it. My hope was that "soft" particles, in this context, meant that those hard lines would be softened, as in the built-in renderer.

Am I just doing something wrong, or am I misunderstanding what "soft particles" mean in the context of HDRP? I've attached a package containing the sample scene I was working with.

 

Very nice. I guess I didn't understand how it worked. Changing it from 2,2 to 0,2 or 1,2 produces the expected result. Thanks for the quick reply, and the work getting these shader out.

 

Oh yeah, one last thing: Are these shaders going to be incorporated into HDRP (or some other package) in the near future? This thread isn't all that easy to find.