Question Sprite Mask Alpha Cutoff

Hey,
I want to create a smooth sprite mask, If I use the build in mask in Unity it looks like this sadly:



The alpha cutoff of the sprite mask makes hard edges instead of smooth transitions on the alpha channel.
I found an old post where they talk about solutions:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/feathered-soft-sprite-mask.498764/

I need a solution in which I can have multiple masks. For example like in the light system of "Don´t starve".
someone suggested to make a shader. How could I make one to achive this effect?
I found pretty much nothing online, thanks for helping me out

 

i will give you the fast answer, what you are trying to do is not possible in unity, this topic has been discussed to death and a solution was never found( it is also unlikely that unity will ever push this feature due to how their stencil pass is implemented)

some workaround might be found with shaders but its increadibly convoluted and only works for 1 mask, multiple masks will mess with eachother, it doesnt hold up for a large scale project

there are assets on the asset store trying to cater to this niche but if you go and read the reviews you will find that there are always tons of problems that happen mainly when they try to use more than 1 mask, make mask apply only to certain objects, etc

 

Oh wow,
So in my case it´s probably better to use Unitys light system. It just seemed easier to do it with a mask.
Thanks for saving me the time to try even longer!

 

I'm running into this exact same problem now. Pretty sad to see this is simply not possible.

May I ask you how you planned to do this ? And did you find a solution to the mask alpha issue ?

 

no, theres only silence for a solution for sprite mask with alpha

 

Kaikoura_ said they could use the light system instead, I just want to know what they meant by that. I'm willing to use anything if it works, not necessarily a sprite mask