Strumpy Shader Editor [Now Open Source]

Got this last night have already created a small shader based on your rimlight example. AAA+++ stuff here
I wanted to know how this works for iOs devs. meaning performance wise since this generates surface shaders. can i safely use them for iOs especially if i don't have too many objects(filter rate, drawcalls), as long as i keep the shader.graphs simple. at this point we can assume most people have migrated from the 3Gs anyway.
For example can i use your rim-light example as is for iOs on say 20 objects on screen. i have produced an app for ios in the past with 60~80 drawcalls using unity built in mobile shaders and it ran fine iOS 4,4s up

 

I made this clip fade away shader last night and got it to work fine but i was looking for some help with one part on it. It currently works on my test object fine because the fade starts at 0,0,0 going up on y in the world. I was trying to get it to work were this can be put on any object and get it to work on the Y axis any where in the scene. The problem is if this object was 10 feet off the ground plane, it would take a while for the swipe to get to the mesh. So is there a way to get the local axis on the mesh and use that.

 

Ok I think I found the solution to this, i just need to us v*m with mesh uv and object to world node.

 

Hi there! Thank you stramit for creating this wonderfull tool!

Like most of guys here I've a question

I'm trying to create a vertex shader based on the vertex colors painted on the mesh, however the vertex color node is not valid in the vertex graph type. Is there any other way to extract the specific color channel and manipulate its position?

I've read this article http://www.strumpy.net/?cat=21 but the graphs there drive all vertices on a mesh with the same sin function. I would like to have a full control over specific vertex in a mesh.

Thanks in advance

 

Cool effect using Clip.

What is clip used for? And would I use that for creating an alpha cutout shader?

 

is it possible to make panted style shaders

 

Ok here is my updated shader, and yes Jack2g you can use clip for alpha cutout. Just when you are going to use it, you need to change some settings for it. I'll post a picture for the settings.

 

hope to see it integrated with Unity soon!

 

Stupid question, but... how do I unlink two nodes?

 

Right click

 

Is there a function to invert the alpha values?

 

try 1-v node

 

hi,

nice shader,can blend with soft edge?

sorry for my bad english.

 

Is anybody else having trouble with alpha blended objects receiving shadows? I can get them to cast properly, but even with full forward shadows, advanced shadow pass, etc, they seem to be unshadowed. Also, they ignore projectors as well, and yes I've doublechecked 'ignore projectors' was not on.


Help?

 

Under what circumstances could an exposed shader input of type float jump straight back to its default value of 1 as soon as the Unity3d Editor changes its state to game mode?
What I am experiencing:
I have a number of range and float properties exposed to the material. All of them can be changed to my liking and they stay the way I 've set them up once I click "play". All but one. The last one in the row of exposed properties to be precise. That last float property always flips back to 1 whenever I press "play".

 

K, im not sure i understand whats goin on here. I see all sortsa people still using this , but for me, it simply doesnt work properly anymore. Since Unity 3.5f and on. there is a *Graph Error warning upon opening SSE, with the SSE default graph, and when opening any other graph i have worked on.

Simple shaders still seem to compile, and yet no inputs work properly it seems. Nobody else has these graph errors? I find it hard to believe im the only one experiencing this , when as i stated, even SSE default import, and default graph spits out an error.

EDITED : Wow ignore me , been away from Unity too long, and have gotten stupid over time

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This was the solution:
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/62344/material-properties-reseting-to-default.html

Reimporting the shader solved the problem.

 

any tips on recreating the classic sci-fi computer monitor?



This is the general idea: something with glow and transparent but not so complex.

 

I've created a shader with just one range for gloss and one color for Specular. It compiles, shows the desired result in the Strumpy preview window as in the Unity preview window, but in the scene / game view it shows no specularity. What could I be doing wrong?

 

Hi,

I worked a lot on how to build a shader for my sun model, with lava flow, a bit like water, but I didn't found any way to do it properly.
At this time I got the result bellow, and it's not at all what I'm looking for. One problem is that even by using grey scales textures and grey color I got all the rainbow colors as a result !

 

Can't quite see the nodes - got a bigger screenshot?

 

I know this could be a silly question but do you have a light in your scene?

 

In google chrome you can right click on the image and select "open in a new tab". The image size is around 2900 pixels large but unity forum scale it down to fit posts size. I didn't found how to make it clickable to open the full res one.

 

What should be done to keep specularity while using directional lightmaps and a strumpy shader editor's shader?

 

Make sure you untick 'Disable Forward Add' in the Color and Lighting Settings

 

<doh!> yeah sorry I can't quite tell from just looking at it and I am a little busy to build it - my suggestion is go back along the change and connect different stages to the Diffuse channel and verify it is doing what you like until it goes wrong. you may need to send slightly different versions to diffuse and Emission but that is just a guess

 

Hi, the selected part breaks my shader. Why? I have unity free, chose "shader model 3", but I saw people using this setup on unity free.

 

The problem is that Time, Costime an Sintime are float4 with differents values. It's necessary to use the Splat node and chose one.

 

If that was for me - could you say it again in simpler language?

 

Sorry it's for my own problem.

 

Try it this way. Works for me.
Problem was you we're sampling using three different sets of UVs (doesn't matter if it was the same UV1 set)

 

Works! Thanks so much.

 

Does this still work in 4.x?

 

Yup

 

No, shaders are borken in Dx11 modes.

 

Whenever i try to use the shader editor, my preview view always just states that The Shader Needs Updating, how do i update the shader or am i missing something to install before it will work?

Edit, happens no matter if i create a new shader or preload the ones with the package.

 

Oh yeah DX11 is a no. Unity have not done shaderlab model for DX11 yet I don't think - DX11 stuff needs doing by hand

 

Good thing I am waiting to upgrade to Unity4... I can't imagine not being able to work in Strumpy in Unity4 especially with tessellation.

 

Is there an ETA on when this is going to be updated for Unity 4?

 

I doubt there will be an update, HeadClot88.
I talked to one of the 2 guys who created this, on IRC. They have been hired by Unity. So there is a good news and a bad news.
The good is that there will be an official shader editor. The bad is that the current unofficial may be not updated anymore.

 

Waiting for dx 11 shader with SSE!!!!

 

Can someone give me some tips on how to get transparency to work with the SSE?

I'm trying to make a progress bar with rounded corners + animated texture so my idea was to have a "mask" texture that I would combine with the bar texture (which would have scrolling UVs).

But, I can't seem to get anything to be transparent. I think it might be working in the previewer (the grey areas are transparent, I added a huge stripe down the middle just as a test) but when I export the shader and use it in game it's not transparent.

http://screencast.com/t/QtsruuZ6A4R

 

Try to multiply diffuse RGB by your alpha.
Alpha is a bit tricky, I got some difficulties with it too, sometimes.

 

You need to change your blend settings..

Basic Transparent is Source Alpha, 1-Source Alpha I think - sorry can't remember off the top of my head - but play with them and you should find it.

 

Hi everyone,

I am trying to make a snow shader but I have very low knowledge about making shaders. My snow shader needs to be very stylized. I am not trying to create realistic scattering.
Here are some example of what I am trying to do.




I thinkg that I need to build my shader with this:
Specular with noise (maybe noise map)
rim light
fake scattering on top border
bump
fresnel

I've searched for some tutorial or explanation but I didn't found anything very helpful. Can you give me some advice, tutorial etc...

Thanks a lot !

 

I really hope this Shader Graph project won't just a proof of concept thing.
If Unity want's to keep pace with UDK, a node-based shader system is a must.
Right now, you don't have much artistically freedom, if you can't write your own shader code. Even Blender's game engine has a easy to use material system. Something Unity does not shine at the moment

 

Thank you very much for this and all of your hard work.

 

We just moved to Unity 4 and the shader created with SSE and Unity 3.x sadly dont seem to work

I get a lot errors of this kind:
"Shader warning in 'NormalMap': Program 'vert_surf', implicit truncation of vector type (compiling for d3d11) at line x"

Anyone else got this problem?