Shader Forge - A visual, node-based shader editor

Hi Baldinoboy,

You have to use the Transform node in the vertex offset to get all plants bending in the same Wind direction.
And if you noticed, all plants bend at the same time using your shader, and this looks very unatural. To fix this you can use some weaves to create a natural wind animation.

P.D: Use global variables for wind direction and wind speed to control all plants at the same time.

 

what's wrong with this shader
when I play in editor ,the alpha default value is zero.

 

Since this discussed to such a degree, let's work on a Wiki page:
http://acegikmo.com/shaderforge/wiki/index.php?title=Lightmapping

Started that now, is there anything you think should be added?

 

@layola : My guess is that the time node is producing such high values that you will have values over 1 , for example:
t/20= 5
1 - 5 = -4
Camp -4 to 0 and 1 = Alpha 0;

 

Looks like a solid start for the lightmapping-section of the Wiki.
We could expand on it with an example shader graph.

 

how to improve ?

 

The question what do you like to do with the shader?

 

only fading(from 1 to 0)...when pass time
like
iTween.FadeTo(gameObject,0,1);

 

You need to control that using code. The trick here is that the shader needs to know when to start the fade and when to stop the fade. Right now, just using the Time node won't make it, because the Time node is essentially "seconds since startup".

But in your case, you probably want an explicit start and end time. I recommend using a Value property node, and control it using code, with material.SetFloat("_MyValue", t), where t is your fade value.

 

Hi

Thanks for the however the shader example you have just showed is what i was describing as being wrong and not what I was after.

In real life see through glass does not affect what is seen behind it, however red glass would tint what is behind it as red. So if you had a white object behind it would change to red. However if you have a black object behind red glass it would remain black.

Using your method a white object would turn slightly red but a black object would actually become brighter and red which is incorrect and it why the method you suggest for creating a coloured glass shader is fundamentally wrong. The alpha needs to be set to red rather than a single value if that makes sense?


I guess I get the same issue trying to create a see through glass shader as you cannot have reflections over the top of a completely transparent object. You need to have SOME alpha visible. In Vray for example transparecny and alpha are separate. Transparency will let eyes rays pass through but still allow a reflection over teh top.

My only hack round this at the moment is to use the reflection from skyshop R channel in teh alpha then use a fresnel to multiply over the reflection. This kind of works but isn't really ideal.

Its seems neither effects are currently possible within shader forge?

 

Again - try setting the blending mode to multiply instead of alpha blended, and disconnect the alpha

 

Thanks for the advice. I will insert the transform node.
What do you mean by weaves?

Is there any way to get the values from the windzone transmitted into the shader? I know there probably is not but can not hurt to ask.

 

Hey @libin71. If you are wanting to put a lot of detail in your trees you should try @larsbertram1 Custom Tree Importer script. It is really amazing and makes the trees work on the terrain.

Edit- Sorry but first link was incorrect. Went to a similar thread that I never heard of. The current one should work. Hopefully

 

Any news about area lights?


Many thanks

 

Not yet. As I've mentioned before, I've begun a complete rewrite of the entire plugin, but, yes, area lights will be part of it

 

Hi,

A question

Is it possible to have the Light Wrapping effect wrap around a selected object on scene, to emulate effects like light scaterring around the sun or halo around the moon etc ?

Thanks

 

Not entirely sure what you mean. Yes, you can use the light wrapping input to make an effect like that, but I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "around a selected object on scene".
Yes, if you apply a material using a light wrapping shader, I guess? (Not quite sure what you're asking)

 

Say i have a sky dome using the shader and want this effect to wrap only around a sun object that moves and is between the camera and the skydome and appear only there in the skydome shader. That is, a localization of the shader effect in a specific spot of an object (this could be a global question on the matter i guess)

Something like masking the shader effect using a scene object position (or other means).

 

All right.Thank you for your help!

 

@irwit:
Are you speaking about absorption of certain wavelenghts by your tinted glass? That should be possible with SF but requires the SceneColor node and a grabPass - Unity Pro features.
Also requires some colorspace conversions and a solid understanding of the physics (optics) and math involved I think to get it right.

 

Just wrote an article on RGB color elimination this, in case you need it
http://acegikmo.com/shaderforge/wiki/index.php?title=Color_Elimination

 

Nice. I just implemented a height fog for a water surface shader with a similar effect.

 

Hey guys. I am having this problem. I created these two shaders and they work great in most cases. Though someone tried a scene I made and the models using these shaders were complete black. He is using a Mac.

If someone can just test these out and find the problem. I can not figure it out. They are not using Dx11, which is what I first thought the problem is.

These are using the diffuse and specular ambient fake hemi-spherical setup that I asked about before. So that might be the problem too. Once again though I do not know why.

Thanks

 

Hey.

I do not know why I forgot but to get the baking of transparent shaders to work you have to put them in the transparent shader category. So with my shader instead of: TFP_Shaders/TFP_Leaf_Shader
I changed its name in the code to: Transparent/Cutout/TFP/TFP_Leaf_Shader

It now bakes the shadows great.

 

Hello. Do you plan to support "Enlighten" in "Unity5"?

 

Try adding
#pragma target glsl
to your shader and see if this fixes the issue. Also make sure the OpenGL rendering is not excluded (from a quick glance at TFP-BumpedSpecular it looks ok).

 

Thank you for the help. Will add that line and see if it works for him.

I checked and OpenGL is enabled. Does it cause any problems if you would to just enable all the options Like PS3 and 360?

 

Yes

 

when will there be a SALE!!!!

 

Whenever Unity want to do it, so, I don't know

 

Hello Dear Friends ! Can Someone be kind enouph to Convert this UNREAL4 Shader to SHADERFORGE Gem Nodes for the WIKI please ! Its something Really Needed.
We tried to make this conversion for days but ... Its really out of our league ...

Thanks So Much in Advance.



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Nodes & Sourçe Code Provided Bellow

Visual Nodes Guide Full Size: http://s27.postimg.org/aaanohrbl/POM4.jpg




Custom code blocks are as follows:

CalcParallax

Code (JavaScript):

1. float CurrRayHeight = 1.0;
2. float2 CurrOffset = float2( 0, 0 );
3. float2 LastOffset = float2( 0, 0 );
4. float LastSampledHeight = 1;
5. float CurrSampledHeight = 1;
6. int CurrSample = 0;
7. while ( CurrSample < (int) InNumSamples )
8. {
9. float4 Temp = Material.Texture2D_0.SampleGrad( Material.Texture2D_0Sampler, InTexCoord + CurrOffset, InDX, InDY );
10. CurrSampledHeight = ( ( Temp.r * InChannelMask.r ) + ( Temp.g * InChannelMask.g ) + ( Temp.b * InChannelMask.b ) );
11. if ( CurrSampledHeight > CurrRayHeight )
12. {
13. float Delta1 = CurrSampledHeight - CurrRayHeight;
14. float Delta2 = ( CurrRayHeight + InStepSize ) - LastSampledHeight;
15. float Ratio = Delta1/( Delta1 + Delta2 );
16. CurrOffset = ( Ratio ) * LastOffset + ( 1.0 - Ratio ) * CurrOffset;
17. CurrSample = InNumSamples + 1;
18. }
19. else
20. {
21. CurrSample++;
22. CurrRayHeight -= InStepSize;
23. LastOffset = CurrOffset;
24. CurrOffset += InStepSize * InMaxOffset;
25. LastSampledHeight = CurrSampledHeight;
26. }
27. }
28. return CurrOffset;

Output Type: CMOT Float 2
Inputs are:

1. InNumSamples
2. InStepSize
3. InTexCoord
4. InDX
5. InDY
6. NormalHeightMap (Not actually used, just there to ensure texture doesn't get optimized out)
7. InMaxOffset
8. InChannelMask

CalcSilhouette

Code (JavaScript):

1. if( InUseSilhouette > 0.0f )
2. {
3. clip( InFinalCoords );
4. clip( 1.0f - InFinalCoords );
5. }
6. return InFinalCoords;
7.  

Output Type: CMOT Float 2
Inputs are:

1. InFinalCoords
2. InUseSilhouette

NOTE:Make sure that the height map is the first texture you drop into the material graph as the above custom code block accesses that texture directly viaMaterial.Texture2D_0andMaterial.Texture2D_0SamplerIf you don't drop it in first, it will be referencing the wrong texture. To fix that you will need to change those two values to whichever one is assigned to the heightmap.

 

This is a DX11 only shader ? (Due to the tesselation)

 

If you mean in the post above - no, it's a parallax occlusion mapped shader

 

Wow, please post a graph that does that !!!!

It seems the rocks are formed by a pefect mesh, seemed too good to be paralax, this is what i usually see in DX11 displacement mapping samples

There is no mesh deformation at all in this example ?
.

 

Sorry for this stupid little question:
Is it possible (in Shaderforge) to have shadows on alpha blended object?

 

Hey, I have a few questions regarding to the UE4 POM shader. The terminology is slightly different but most of them are the same as Unity. I hope Unity shader forge has all the functions that UE4 shader editor has.

So ;

Camera vector = View Dir

Vertex normals = Normal dir

Tex Coord = UV Coords

DDX / DDY = No Idea.

Also is there a way to copy-paste texts from code edit mode ? Ctrl+V doesn't do the trick.

 

Hi Acegikmo,

I have a very simple question:
How I can expose vertex colors in beast lightmap for GI baking?
Im using vertex colors as diffuse for some mobile models. Using a texture its working.

 

Folks, sorry to bother, but someone already found a way to replicate this?

is some kind of volumetric lights, or at least a simulation of it, .

Many thanks for attention

 

@angelodelvecchio

Hey angel. What you're looking for seems more like lens flares rather than volumetric lighting. Unity has some defaut lens flares which create horizontal streaks with bloom which creates an effect like in your picture.

Although I have been working on some volumetric light effects that look like this.



Play it here if you like to see it in action : http://www.mediafire.com/download/rq7if370x72tz2a/Night+Scene+UFO.rar

 

hey cactus !!! Many many thanks for attention !, but is not this., this "volumetric" might simulate a kind of radiosity around the lights,
something about the "cone light" in the shader forge demo,

Many thanks


*** good night scene ! i loved it

 

Hi Acegikmo

My bad, i should've read your earlier comments. I must have missed them. Again apologies and thanks for your patience to reply twice to the same question!

Im not sure where you mean to change blending modes, do you mean the blend node? I thought that could just blend two image inputs?

Sorry for being such a noob here and thanks again for the help, hugely appreciated!

 

POM is a very expensive effect, so this doesn't come cheap.
You can set the quality level on it as well, it looks like it's cranked up very high in the image posted.

I don't have a graph on it, but I do believe people have made a few for UDK and UE4.

ddx and ddy aren't available in SF yet, but you should be able to use them in the code node. They're a function accepting a vector input, like so: ddx( myUvCoord )

No problem. It's in the blending settings of the shader, not in the node tree.

 

ahh, thats awesome! Thanks for the help! Hugely appreciated!

 

There is no answer about exposing vertex colors as "_Color" or "_MainTex" to beast lightmaping?
I really need it to get nice results baking GI.

 

Not sure what you mean by "exposing vertex colors". Vertex colors can't be edited with a shader/material, they're part of the mesh data, just like normals/verts/uvs/tangents, etc.

That said, you can use _MainTex and _Color, and have beast read from them. More info here:
http://acegikmo.com/shaderforge/wiki/index.php?title=Lightmapping

 

I dont want to edit vertex colors, i want them to effect Global illumination baking. When I use vertex colors, beast bake the scene like all my objects are "white", its not geting the color information from vertex colors.

 

Ah, no idea how to do that. If beast doesn't do that on any of the Unity materials, I doubt you can get it to do it.

 

Hi there,
I'm a total newbie trying to understand shaders better. Here is what I'm trying to do. I've got a low-poly triangulated surface (which is not flat, but slightly perturbated) and I'm attempting to use it as a low-poly sea for a scene. Now, my idea is to create a ripple/wave animation by using the vertex offset. I've tried both with a sine wave and with a triangle wave which multiply a vector3 (0,1,0) so to move my vertices only on the y. Problem is (quite logically!) that this way I'm moving the entire mesh rather than some vertices in a ripple fashion.
Now, I'm experimenting without knowing too much, but can someone point me in the right direction in how to obtain a wave effect by offsetting only certain vertices? Thank you so much!

 

Ok, thank you anyway!

 

You need to change it not only over time, but over space as well. Usually you can use the world position node for that, to offset the phasing of the wave generator.

This might help: http://acegikmo.com/shaderforge/wiki/index.php?title=Waveforms