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Turn off 'receive shadows' for visual effect graph's particles?

Discussion in 'High Definition Render Pipeline' started by cubrman, Sep 25, 2020.

  1. cubrman

    cubrman

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    Current implementation of VFX Graph particles cast decent shadows and look nice when lit. Unfortunately they look absolutely abysmal when they receive slef-shadows. Is there any way to turn turn off "Receive shadows" for VFX graph shaders? Maybe there is a way to set them to "Shadows only" like with standard renderers?
     
    cubrman, Sep 25, 2020
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  2. SebLazyWizard

    SebLazyWizard

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    In the VFX Graph click on your partilce output node (which opens the inspector window), then in the inspector choose "SimpleLit" as material type. After that a checkbox should appear in the inspector to enable/disable shadows.
     
    SebLazyWizard, Sep 28, 2020
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  3. cubrman

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    Right, but I want to disable particles RECEIVING shadows, not to disable particles CASTING their shadows.
     
    cubrman, Oct 5, 2020
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  4. SebLazyWizard

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    Well, this is exactly what I described in my previous post...
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    SebLazyWizard, Oct 5, 2020
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  5. cubrman

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    Ok, I will double check it, thank you. Weird that I missed it - I did try using Simple Lit.
     
    cubrman, Oct 6, 2020
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