ShaderGraph/LW how to create a simple lit graph?

I really need this too

 

Bump! This would be useful

 

Has the status changed yet?

 

Bump, sounds pretty essential.

 

I need to make a version of URP/Simple Lit that allows for colour replacement. You're telling me after 2 years you can't create and edit it in the shader graph? wow.

 

Adding to the +1 that I also need it. Seems like Unity just doesn't want to add it for some reason. They've had plenty of time to do so by now.

 

+1

 

Hi all. On Unity's Shader Graph roadmap, you can click Submit a new idea! to forward this suggestion to Unity team. They may not be reading the forum threads so I guess there is a better chance there.

 

Hi, we need a very fast shader for VR. With the best possible visual result. Let me try one oldschool trick:
One of the fastest shaders should be Unlit created with Shader Graph.

But the quality is just unlit. On the left is the default URP Lit material:

We can setup light and spheres for light baking- and multiply color (or texture) with Baked GI node:

Light is in "Baked" Mode, both object "Lightmap Static":

Better. Now I will add more information about the light from the surroundings - I will take this information from the reflection probe:

 

Object on left is "Reflection Probe Static", reflection probe is in middle of the right sphere:

I can use the LOD level from the reflection probe to change the "smoothness":

 

I am convinced that such a shader can be tuned to work for static objects.
BUT
I'm not a good enough programmer to know how to set the View Vector and Normal parameters in the Reflection probe node correctly.
Because now the texture from the reflection probe rotates at the same time as the object, and if I import an object from CAD software where the Z axis is upwards, it is rotated 90 degrees ...


I'm trying to open a discussion, the essence of this trick (image-based lighting combined with baked shadows) worked well for me in unity 3.x, 4.x.

Edit: View Direction- World and Normal Vector- World nodes added, recombined:


Standart baked URP Lit material left, "unlit" test right.

 

Shader file:

 

Its 2022 and we still haven't got simple lit shader graph

 

How long is that damn backlog

 

+1 Seems like a simple thing. Why it is taking so long? Or is there some other preffered way how to create mobile friendly shaders except for starting with Unlit and creating custom lighting?

 

Who knows. They are not at all transparent about this. I find it a complete joke that they don't even support their own base Uber shaders in Shader Graph. Custom lighting results always look different when compared to their SimpleLit shader, and it really isn't feasible to use SimpleLit as-is throughout your whole game. So you either get inconsistent visuals, or only use your own custom lighting, which makes the Uber shaders useless.

Meanwhile Unity is on to Advance Quantum Physics without having completed Math101 first... Backwards. And honestly feels like a slap in the face to their mobile devs.

 

Bump, very useful for mobile.

 

Plz any ETA for this???

 

@phil_lira @izym @peterbay Can I get simple lit shader graph feature anytime soon? I really need this feature for mobile platform.

 

I needed the Simple Lit target, and came across this thread. And found that nobody had just made the relevant UniversalSimpleLitSubTarget, which isn't really that much effort for the current version of URP (2022.1+, at least). So I've went and done just that and released it under an MIT license on Github for everyone to use:

https://github.com/Zallist/unity-universal-shadergraph-extensions

And it just does what Unity should do, in exposing a Simple Lit material to the Universal target in Shader Graph:



Feedback welcome. Or not, you can just take it.

The code is basically just the Lit MasterNode, stripped down to what it needs just for Simple Lit and the logic necessary to call Blinn Phong.

It does NOT work for Deferred Rendering right now since I have no need for that. Or VFX Graph.

 

We both completed our own versions of this the same day, but since you already posted to github, I've decided to merge mine with yours, URP 12 support already done now (for those that need it). Next I'm working on deferred support being merged, then possibly a BakedLit node (I'm not as interested in doing the VFX stuff though), IMO this would finally make Shader Graph complete.

Thanks so much for your work on this Zallist!

I hope Unity merges this code directly, as Zallist has been careful to make it easy for them to do so. And, correct me if I am wrong, but I think Zallist actually would like for Unity to merge this.

So if anyone from Unity sees this, the work has been done for you.

 

If raising an Issue against the repo asking Unity to just take the code wasn't a clear enough request for them to adopt it, I don't know what is.

 

Can I know whats taking soo much time to implement such simple feature!!! I just don't understand?? It's almost 4 years now!!! Why such important feature for mobile games is in backlog for soo long!!??? We got barely anything in 2022.1 for URP, you guys might be working hard but the development feels very slow when compared to HDRP!!!

 

Hi EagleG,

Please checkout Zallist's github code, which is now complete for SimpleLit (Forward and Deferred) and VFX support. At this point, he is just waiting for Unity to take the code and run.

 

Haha

Yes I knew this, but I didn't want to come off as though I was speaking for you.


Thanks again for taking this on, Zallist. Much appreciated!

 

ping

 

bump, this seems like a simple addition and works well.

 

Zallist, thank you so much for your effort, works like a charm.
Unity, you just need to pull from Zallist GitHub repo and do NOTHING, what's taking you so long? This is just unacceptable.

 

Just a note, I've already got all the URP 14 stuff completed, so when I get a min I'll do a pull request. The latest beta notes reference fixes in 2022.2.0f1, so the stable release is just around the corner. The URP 14 graphics repo is stable and hasn't changed for a very long time, so it is pretty unlikely there will be changes between now and the release. Just a heads up for all who are relying on Zallist's repo - support is incoming!

Edit: Do we have any Alpha/Beta release testers here? Is there any interest in creating Alpha/Beta branches of this? If so, let me know here.

 

Any update?

 

Which version of URP are you looking for, camillazi?

 

Thank you Zallist!

Unity Technologies, please, do it already, really needed and simple feature!

 

Bump

 

@phil_lira

Hey guys, it's not even funny anymore after all these years since ShaderGraph has been released.

We need a more flexible/modular way of creating our own custom master graph nodes that should allow to easily support, replace or extend Unity rendering features like lightmaps, light probes, additional lights (per pixel or per vertex), object space or tangent-space normals, light layers and so on.

Having a modular approach to "assembling" master nodes for shader graph out of some extensible core "building blocks" would open a lot of flexibility of allowing at least anyone to be able to create their own version of SimpleLit graph.

 

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I have a message from the future:

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Oh no we have been cursed

 

If you haven't already, you can provide feedback on the official roadmap as well (include details like your workflow and requirements for your projects if possible)
https://portal.productboard.com/8uf...get?utm_medium=social&utm_source=portal_share

 

Did that. It's been a while. Maybe in Unity 6.