Shader Forge - A visual, node-based shader editor

Isn't there a bug here? Shouldn't the output of the If be a simple "Value" (float), like the A>B, A=B and A<B inputs, rather than a Vector3 like the A and B inputs?

 

Hi I have not used Shader Forge in a long time, and back then you where not able to have instanced rendering Mode. Does Shader Forge have this now??? Thanks

 

Hey!
Apologies for not keeping up with this thread for, well, the last few years. I moved my support further and further back to the feedback page/support tickets and emails due to the sheer amount of requests.

Like Mauri mentioned above - I'm dropping support for SF because I don't have the time to work on it anymore, and now that there are proper alternatives like Amplify Shader Editor, or Unity's Shader Graph, I'm ready to pass the torch!

Thank you all so much for the feedback and support throughout this journey! It has been an honor to see all the awesome work and creativity you all put into your craft. It's humbling to think that I've been part of providing the tools you all used.

If you're interested, you can grab the Shader Forge source code on GitHub!

 

figures I bought this week one of it coming out...and now I go to use again and its gone haha. I own Amplify as well, so I will just keep using it, I will just update my old shaders to Amplify, thanks again for the awesome tool.

 

Free? Wow, that was unexpected but not unwelcome. Thank you.

 

@Acegikmo The readme still has required licensing verbiage contained within. Is this going to be updated?

 

Just updated it! Thanks for the heads-up

 

Hello,
I'm a complete beginner with the Sader Forge, I'm trying to create a very basic shader, but I have some strange problems with the nodes in the default shader setup:

1. Texture2D and Color nodes which was created by default with the new shader controlls shader image and color even when disconnected. Newly created nodes doesn't change anything even though they are connected to the Base Color input.

2. The Normal Map node doesn't affect anything after I choose the normal map image. When I click "Normal map" the image in the node becomes red.

3. Sliders doesn't change shader look.



I would be very grateful for help.
Thank you very much in advance!

 

Hello everyone,
so Unity 2018.1 is out and my whole project is pretty much based on shaders made in shader forge. I was able to repair shaders since 5.5.3 to 2017.4 to make them work properly. Unfortunetely there's a weird error in 2018.1 which makes pretty much no sense: "unexpected token ';' at line" after LIGHT_ATTENUATION. Did anyone solve that?

Code (CSharp):

1.                float attenuation = LIGHT_ATTENUATION(i);
2.                float3 attenColor = attenuation * _LightColor0.xyz;
3.                float Pi = 3.141592654;
4.                float InvPi = 0.31830988618;

 

The LIGHT_ATTENUATION function is obsolete.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/missing-changed-light_attenuation-macro.511767/

 

Hey Ace, Just no update for 2018.1 though? All my Shader Forge shaders are broken in 2018 and can not get SF to initiate to re-process them. Can not play with the source code.

Usually when source code goes free no one publicly updates it so everything done with the system that I paid for is dead. If anyone does update it please let me know as I could really use it to just update my current shaders.

 

Thought someone might post it here, but since nobody did, I will.

Someone has updated the project to work for 2018:

https://github.com/jackisgames/ShaderForge

 

Thank you so much! Thank you very much to the user who updated it also!

 

Nice

 

I dunno, the PBS in Shader Forge is weird... Seems like a bug, but something tells me that it's me who can't get it to work properly. Basically, it doesn't receive any kind of ambient light in deferred rendering. I know about the Ambient Light node, but it doesn't seem to be the correct way to do it because:
A. It works flawlessly in Forward rendering
B. Ambient Light node doesn't return the proper ambient light (e.g. doesn't take the intensity and light probe sampling into account
Realtime GI properly maps the ambient lighting onto the material if the object is static though.

Soo... anyone had this?

 

I managed to deal with it. So, make sure to add a line manually:

Code (CSharp):

1. indirectDiffuse += ShadeSH9(half4(normalDirection, 1.0));

After declaration of indirect diffuse:

Code (CSharp):

1. /////// Diffuse:
2.                 float3 indirectDiffuse = float3(0,0,0);

It solves the ambient light issue with deferred shaders.

And download this version: https://github.com/jackisgames/ShaderForge
It repairs the UNITY_LIGHT_ATTENUATION problem, you can do it manually also if you feel confident with shaders: http://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/rendering/part-17/

 

Im trying to edit sprite shader. When I open material inspector in Editor i have no slot for MainTex, thought it is clearly visible in shader forge editor, instead i have

• stencil id
• stencil read mask
• stencil write mask
• etc

Sprite is still visible cause it was plug in in previous shader, so i know it works

what could i do to see texture slots in inspector?

 

did you save the shader or connect the node? to the main node?

 

Hi guys,

i am having a weird issue with the water flow shader from the Shader Forge Wiki .

http://acegikmo.com/shaderforge/wiki/index.php?title=Flowmap

I am having it work correctly but only when Gamma space is selected !
As soon as i switch to Linear space, it starts to move the whole image in some direction on top of the flow direction ! It's like the two motions are mixed !
When a Gamma space is selected, the parts that should look static are not moving which is correct!

Any ideas why this might be happening !?

EDIT : the fix is pretty simple actually ! The flow map should be set to use linear color space in import settings !

 

So, i tried the fix for the 2018 Version, and it works. However, as soon as i close the Shader Forge Tab it gives me some complie errors and i got this:

The Examples shaders are fine though. Does anyone know how to fix this ?

 

Because of that i can't have access to my shader within Shader Forge. I can't even go to Windows and start Shader Forge. I have to get one of the Shader Examples to be able to reopen SF again.

 

It means you did not do it right for me works! do it again and be more carefull. For me it worked from the first try.

 

Shader Forge removed from the store?

I can understand it was going free and unsupported - but deprecated entirely?

There are a lot of environmental packs out there which relied on Shader Forge. Now they are broken if users cannot access that asset :-/

 

Go on Github and look for it!

 

Thanks Acegikmo for developing such a great tool (I used for years in almost every project) !!!
Hope you´re now working on something even cooler?

 

I downloaded it from Github, how do I install Shader Forge from the source files I got from Github? I'm on Windows 10 and Unity 2017.3.1f1. Thank you.

 

Go to you game directory and copy files from rar file into the directory. Then open that project in Unity.

 

Hi all,
It seems the real-time rendering is not working in my environment. Some of nodes filled with white and I cannot see any shading.
I checked "Real-tme node rendering" checkbox on in the setting tab. What else do I need to make that work?

 

disable the skybox

 

Any idea how I can make that bit of code in ShaderForge?

 

Wow! This is what I have been wanted so much! I kinda gave up and accepted it as my environment specific issue.
Thank you so much, Fenixake!

 

Why does it need to disable the skybox ?

 

is a bug idk why but is a bug

 

In which Unity version and how to fix this ?

 

Does this setup still work in Unity 2018 and SF for 2018?
I like to access to skybox LOD, so I mimicked the nodes and code but no luck. I just got a purple sphere...

Code (CSharp):

1. //Glossiness
2. half mip = (1.0 - Glossiness) * UNITY_SPECCUBE_LOD_STEPS;
3. // sample the default reflection cubemap, using the reflection vector
4. half4 skyData = UNITY_SAMPLE_TEXCUBE_LOD(unity_SpecCube0,Dir,mip);
5. // decode cubemap data into actual color
6. half3 skyColor = DecodeHDR (skyData, unity_SpecCube0_HDR);
7. return skyColor;

 

in 2018 the code node is fcked up and it took me 10 hours to figure it out, only after i changed to 2017 and the non2018 sf version it worked


EDIT: it seems that some codes work some not!. idk why but this works https://shaderforge.userecho.com/co...on-probes-and-their-box-projection-parameters

 

Ah, I see. Then I should be careful about the SF version.
Thank you for the useful link. Now I got it working on my unity 2018.

By the way, I access skyData to add IBL & environment lighting effect to my custom light toon shader.
I am not sure if my approach is appropriate. Since this is my first shader making, I cannot think of any other approach.

If anyone have any suggestion for me to try to make a custom light toon shader which reacts skybox image light, I really like to hear some.

[Edit]
Though it needs a bit more of blending adjustment, by accessing ShadeSH9 method I have managed to apply the environment lighting to my custom light shader. Valuable information I learned here(Japanese).

Now I am curious how different approaches hit the performance.
Is there any way to know shaders' drawing cost?

 

Does anyone know an alternative for light direction and light attenuation nodes to work in deferred shader mode?
When I switch from forward to deferred they get locked and I can't use them.

 

for some reason they are not there idk why!

 

I'm sure there's a way to feed that information to the shader through code but it's ridiculous that deferred mode simply disables that very useful info.

 

Can anyone help me?I created such a shader effect that converts a map into a pole map. But I hope that other countries are at the extreme.

 

I like that shader. What did you need help with?

 

I want to transfer another country to the North Pole, such as putting the United States in the center of the circle.

 

Playing with the UV offset in the inspector should do it actually

 

In fact, I tried it. After the offset, the North Pole can't be a closed state.Limited by my understanding of uv, I did not achieve the effect I wanted.

 

That's a complex problem, uv map are a torus not a sphere, so you have to effectively close the pole FIRST, then figure out a way to slide the data in sphere space

 

Yes, this is the part I didn't complete. Move uv in sphere space.

this is the shader.Can you help me?
https://forum.unity.com/attachments/mapriverbackup-shader.290582/

 

I've been seeing a lot of posts that Shader Forge doesn't work with Unity 2018, particularly 2018.1.

However, I just upgraded my project to Unity 2018.2 (2018.2.7f1) from Unity 2017.3, and Shader Forge (v1.38) seems to work fine.

Is Shader Forge known to be broken with 2018.1, but working in 2018.2? What changed in 2018.2?

 

It was the case when Shadeforge first went open source, but since them the community has updated it. so it works now. the old posts just aren't true anymore.

 

Do you have a link to the update ? if its been posted, sorry.