Shader Forge - A visual, node-based shader editor

Right now I have got the world space coordinates multiplied by a sin wave. The problem is still the smae, though: expansion and contraction happen on the whole mesh rather than in waves (basically: the mesh expands and contracts as a whole, but I'd like the vertices move as they are perturbated by waves – so for example if one of the vertices is offset by one, the vertices around it are maybe offset by 0.5). Don't know if I'm explaining what I'd like to get in a good way

 

HELLO AGAIN !

I think would be important to bring Paralax Oclusion Mapping with Silhouette to SHaderforge ..
Shader Forge Shaders right now look so dull and flat .. we really need some relief.

There are already some shaders that do this in Dx9 in assets store ...
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/5705
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/5664

There are Also Some other much more Easier Not so expensive ways to do Paralax Oclusion Mapping in Nodes ...









As well Some others quite expensive and more complicate of course ....

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/rsrc...sParallaxOccludedMapping/MaterialNodeTree.jpg




Thanks so much to Whoever can bring this to Unity to all us !

Ps: Some Links About this subject :

https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?49169-POM-material

http://oliverm-h.blogspot.de/2013/09/udk-iterative-parallax-mapping.html

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/DevelopmentKitGemsParallaxOccludedMapping.html

http://www.gamedev.net/page/resourc...oser-look-at-parallax-occlusion-mapping-r3262

http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch18.html

Spoiler: Some more Papers on Paralax Oclusion Mapping With Sillhoete ...

http://docs.cryengine.com/display/SDKDOC2/Parallax Occlusion Mapping

http://www.cs.nthu.edu.tw/~chunfa/PG08_1258.pdf

http://oliverm-h.blogspot.de/2013/09/udk-iterative-parallax-mapping.html

http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch18.html

http://www.cescg.org/CESCG-2006/papers/TUBudapest-Premecz-Matyas.pdf

http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/papers/IndirectionI3D08/indirection08.pdf

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/cgvlab/co...nces/DepthImagesForRenderingSurfaceDetail.pdf

http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn....chuk-ParallaxOcclusionMapping-FINAL_Print.pdf

http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn....huk-ParallaxOcclusionMapping-Sketch-print.pdf

http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/I3D2006-Tatarchuk-POM.pdf

http://amdstaging.wpengine.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/I3D2006-Tatarchuk-POM.pdf

http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/Tatarchuk-POM.pdf

http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/Course_26_SIGGRAPH_2006.pdf#page=86

http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~oliveira/RTM.html

http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch04.html

http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/Dachsbacher-Tatarchuk-Prism_Parallax_Occlusion_Mapping_with_Accurate_Silhouette_Generation(SI3D07).pdf

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/DevelopmentKitGemsParallaxOccludedMapping.html

 

Was playing around with making a hair shader, really happy with how it turned out! [GIF]

And here's the node graph if anyone is interested!



Man shaderforge rocks!!

 

thank you for sharing!

 

Thanks a lot for sharing. Could you maybe also include this into the wiki, so more people con access it? Thanks again!

 

I do apologize for the lack of knowledge as I am still trying to learn the editor, but I have a question. Let's say there is a part of a texture that I don't want shadows to appear. What would be the best approach in controlling how shadows appear on certain parts of a texture?

 

Hi i'm looking for make matcap taking the normal map value for be apply
like here thank's
http://leegoonz.pixub.com/?p=310

 

I've read about example shaders being on the wiki before. Are those just the links in the columns on the main page, or is there a repository of Shader Forge examples somewhere else that I'm missing? Thanks!

 

Do some Custom Lighting to have the most control or feed the non-shadowed parts into the Emmissive property. Is that what you mean?

Recreate the Matcap shader on the Wiki and make sure the *Perturbed* checkbox on the Normal node is ticked. Then, link up the normalmap.

This thread and the wiki are where I've found stuff. Also, if you know CG, just look up general shaders and find a way to create what you want. Shaders that require more than a single custom pass aren't directly able to be created in SF. That functionality will likely come along eventually though.

 

Hey guys !
How can I make a texture move towards the DepthFade ?
Something like this:

Thanks

 

I'm assuming I must use those particular nodes. I just haven't a clue what setups I'll need to achieve control over shadows.

 

There's an example of custom lighting on the Wiki. That said, depending on what you're wanting to use it for, emission is likely better... Does this node graph help?

Do you mean like a flow shader that uses the depth as the direction? If so, here's a starting point...



(for full resolution: right-click, open in new tab)

 

I actually understand it a little better. So what treatment do I need to apply to the texture going into the Emission node? Or do I just plug in the original texture untouched?

 

The way that I set up that node graph is just using a black and white mask with the white areas being the un-shadowed parts. You can use a colored mask, but that will change the color of the surface. The downside to this way is that having a light near the surface lights up everywhere except the un-shadowed part:

I mainly just threw that node graph together to give you an idea of how to do it. It'd be ideal to use Custom Lighting to do it so that you could have fine-control over exactly how the unlit part behaves, but it's probably a bit complex if you're new to SF & shaders.

 

Oh I see. Thanks for sharing this. So by black and white mask, you mean where it says "Default", or do you mean when creating something like a B&W shadow bias map?

 

White for the unlit areas, black for the rest. If you're comfortable working with alpha channels, you can put it in the alpha of the MainTex and just use that instead of the Emission node. That would perform better, but only if your shadow map and diffuse texture are the same size.

 

Ok I can understand that. That's like making a specular map. See, I'm not completely hopeless! Many thanks for the time you took helping an old guy like me.

 

Hi,

I come from UE4 great material editor and would like to know if Shader Forge supports Unity5 native PBR shaders. I mean, does this shaders created by shader forge generate unity5 builtin PBR shaders? If this is the case I will be buying this asset just now!.

Cheers.

 

Is there a way to convert a vector4 into a sampler2D?

 

Why would you do that? I'm asking out of ignorance, not judgement.

 

I'm stacking a lot of panning effects and various UV offsets to create a VHS style tracking error that takes into account things like chromatic aberration, vignetting, and a whole mess of other things. There are ways to do this with a whole lot of math, but this presents two problems:

1. I am bad at math
2. A node graph the size of kentucky

I figure I can do it if I use the code node and do some casting, but I'm so used to visual shader editors that I can't write shader code at all.

 

Not at the moment - they've told me not to do it until they've released it
SF has its own PBR implementation though

 

I see. It is a pity. I have a friend with beta access and wanted to test GI with the built-in PBR materials. Don't know if we could check the unity 5 built-in with SF PBR implementation. Can we? Do they both play as nicely as GI+build-in PBR?

Cheers.

 

Hello.

I'm trying to make a shader that will apply a multiply blend to a texture where there are shadows, and an additive blend where the light hits the mesh.
Or use two textures with lerp and use the light / shadow areas on the mesh as a lerp mask.

 

I did the lerp mask with light attenuation, but I still need the light intensity to depend on the light angle. I tried to multiply those values with Light dir. node, but it just changes the colors of the light.

Does anyone knows how to achieve that ?



Light attenuation inverts the ambient occlusion shadows to white so it creates some sort of fake GI. It's not that great but it might be if it acts on the light angle.

 

The light direction is a vector pointing towards the light source. If you want it to depend on the "light angle", I presume you mean the angle between the light vector and the normal vector, in which case you can use dot( normal, light), and set it to positive.

 

Hey thanks Ace, it worked ! I think I kinda achieved what I had in mind. When the sunlight hits directly to ground, it lights up the bottom of the buildings, as if the light is bouncing back from the ground. And when it hits from the side, it lights up the ground and the little detail on the roof.

 

Cactus, I have no idea what you're working on but I am already in love with what it could be.

 

Here's a little thing i did a while back.

It's a somewhat volumetric cloud shader, I am now stuck since it seems to take too much render time (I am not sure since i dont have any powerful pc at hand to test it on, a link to an exe is provided here if you want to test it).
I had a look at raymarching a 3D textures to optimize it further but shader forge doesn't currently support it so i'll probably have to learn and write it by myself.
So my question is, are those kind of shader styles planned for a future release in SF ?

Also, the view direction node can't currently be used with the Vertex Offset function.
We can't use a rotator connected to a pixel shader and vertex offset as well, one for each input is required.
How should we get the object pivot point position if the mesh is static(Object Pos. returns 0, 0, 0 once the object is marked has static) and we need to use the same material on multiple object at the same time ?

Bonus Pokemon fire effects.

 

I know we're still in beta, but I was wondering if you planned on doing an update to make deferred shaders work in U5. I'm not talking about adding support for the new GI or PBR features, just making deferred work again (You're probably already aware, but SF deferred shaders are broken even in the deferred pre-pass legacy mode).

 

Acegikmo Unity5 beta has been released . It seems the time to start to work with it .

Cheers.

 

Sure, is there a section for example graphs? I'm not sure what category to put it under

 

I have trouble figuring that out with the wiki, too. It would be nice if there was just a page or category for examples, since a shader like yours doesn't neatly fit into one of the existing categories.

 

What about making a page and putting a link to it here?
http://acegikmo.com/shaderforge/wiki/index.php?title=Community_Creations

 

Cool, just did it

 

Possibly, it would be nice to have

These should both be fixed in the rewritten version of SF.

I don't think you would. The problem is that when they are batched, they are no longer separate meshes, they're the same.

Strange that they are broken in the legacy deferred mode. The rewritten version should support both.

I've had it for months, I just haven't had the time to look at the U5 specific features just yet.

 

Hello! Need advice.
Im trying to make own shader for unity terrain without splats.

So there is problem with horizontal parts of terrain. There are no normal map applied on this parts. How can i fix this?
Thx for answers.

 

So, I've been giving a shot to a pbr shader for the last few days... but I gotta admit, I still have some difficulties wrapping my head around the whole theory.This is why I wanted to share with you what I have 'till now.
Metals are fine so far, but I don't seem to be able to archive the plastic look. It looks more like glass pearls (see the screenshots).
Also it seems I don't really get the diffuse ambient light part in pbr and the fresnel stuff is baffling me (the nodes documentation is not really complete for it unfortunately).
Anyway, here's the node tree... and if someone should figure the remaining problems out, I would be glad to hear them.
(Oh, and the editor screenshot should be 4k, so you can really zoom in to see the fx)

 

hi there. i got strange iisue. we are building some kind of custom terrain. terrain is many custom created in runtime meshes. this meshes has unknown uv set and we for sure need triplanar mapping. first step was using triplanar example from this topic. but nothing works. its work on unity simple objects, like plane or sphere, it work on meshes from outside, but it not work on meshes that we create in runtime.
in additional, in dx9 mode normal maps disappear in 2+ meters away, in close view i see very low normal maps. in dx11 mode it give us a wierd result. will add screenshots.
it doestn matter deffered or forward options. same it doesnt matter if i create deff/forw shader.
it happens with normal maps only. diffuse channel work fine.

i missed text in console "shader wants tangents, but mesh (x;x;x) doesnt have them"
how to fix that? im total noob ((

 

Hi all,

Is there a way in Shaderforge to decide which UV set a shader uses? I'm making a leather seat with stitching and have UVs for the repeating leather in one UV set and the UVs for the stitching on a separate UV set. Its a great way of creating stitching for a leather seat in 3dsmax and Vray and I am trying to repeat this method in Unity but I cant seam to access that second UV channel.

Any help would be hugely appreciated

 

Hi!
I believe you can do this by using the UV coord. node

UV Scale on the wiki
UV rotation on the wiki

Hope that helps.

 

Ah thats awesome, thanks for the quick reply, works perfectly!

Thanks

Will.

 

Hey everyone,

I am trying to create a transmittance shader and I am wondering if I could use Shader Forge to create it. I already saw some kind of Transmittance in this article about Color Elimination.
But I would like to apply this kind of effect on a volume object and get a result like in this example.



Thank you !

 

For this to work in SF and without additional passes (that SF cannot create in its current state of development) you'd need to have a "thickness" map of your object. XNormal is capable of creating such maps.
They are an approximation but they should give you the possibility to mimic that effect.

 

Thank you for your answer !
So, there's no possibility of calculating thickness dynamically ?

 

There is. But not with ShaderForge alone. You would have to create additional passes - one for rendering the backfaces into a rendertexture/depthbuffer, one for rendering the frontfaces and comparing the depth of each frontfacing fragment with the depth of a backfacing fragment to extract the length of a ray marching through the object.
I would consider this too much hassle to even start this shader in SF. Instead I would use the thickness map approach.

Maybe someone has got another idea. Don't take my word for it that these are your only options.

 

Hi - I'm having a lot of fun with the vertex offset attr, but was wondering how I can get my specular term to react to the motion of the surface - right now, all I get is "flat" highlights. I can more or less "fake it", but is there a recommended way though?

 

Back again! I'm trying to create a shader with a few maps for specular. Specifically Spec Intensity, Spec Exp, and Tint Spec By Diffuse. I've got the first two working, but the tint by diffuse is giving me a hard time. Here's what I've got so far.




Right now the node graph above assumes ALL spec should be tinted by diffuse (as per the diffuse x spec before adding them). Removing this multiply and plugging in the sepc to the add assumes all spec is NOT tinted. All that makese sense to me, however I can't get it working with the Spec Tint texture.

I've tried something like this:

And while it seems to be working for the most part, the closer a value gets to being NOT tinted by spec, the spec highlight becomes wrong, like there is a hole in the middle of it.



Any ideas shader masters?

 

@DMelville I can't test it out right now, but you might try to clamp the T input on your lerp. It doesn't play nice with values outside of 0-1 because of the underlying cg function. When the T is outside of that range, it adds in a negative of the parameter that would otherwise be at zero.

 

Good idea! Just tested it out and it doesn't fix it though. Darn!
Gif of the problem: http://i.imgur.com/B1j5YWs.gif