Mesh particle: How to set material?

hi,

I would like to use an object I made as particle in the vfx graph. in the 'output particle mesh' node I can select the mesh, but not the shader graph material – whereas in the 'output mesh' I can.



how can I use my material on a mesh particle?

 

You need to create a new VFX Shader Graph shader and emulate what you did in your original shader in there.

 

ok, I was already wondering what exactly a "vfx shader graph" is. – there is nothing to be found in the docs.
how is this different from – let's say – a pbr shader graph?

 

I think 1: It accepts inputs from the shader graph parameters so you can drive colors, alpha using input params 2: I think it is a stripped-down version of PBR since it needs to be heavily optimized for instancing etc...

 

cool, thanks @coskuturhan and @JulienF_Unity

 

@JulienF_Unity For the life of me I cannot find a place to set the material. When I open one of the example scenes and add my own output particle lit mesh I get the node on the right. This is unity 2019.3.7f1 and the latest vfx graph
Thanks for any input on this!

 

@sschoellhammer you need to enable experimental operators/blocks in preferences, then the shader graph slot appears.

 

@Olmi ahhhh thanks soo much! I would have never found that.

 

Thank you for the trick!

 

tank's

 

Thanks a lot ! solved a lot of things