Question How to make zebra shader?

Suppose I have a big object like this:



I want to make a shader that looks like this: it gets the world position of the pixel (in the x-axis, for example) and chooses the color based on it. In the figure, each unit is a color.

I tried but my shader is not repeating the colors. How can I do it?

 

Hi,

So what have you tried so far. Can you show us a Graph?

 

I've just done it. I used the Position node (with space World), got the Z axis coordinate using a Split node and getting the B channel, then I used a Modulo node, doing B channel modulo 2, to get a result between 0 and 2. With a Comparison node, I asked whether this result is less than 1, if it is, then I chose one color, otherwise I chose another, using a Branch node to do the choice. The output of the Branch node goes to the Albedo of the main node (PBR Master).

 

@dccoo here's another way you could do it. I didn't include it in my example, but you could use the resulting black and white to pick the colors and so on.

See my example here. It might be a bit simpler than yours. And if you want smooth transitions, you could use smoothstep to control the steepness of the transition from black to white.

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Result