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VR WorldSpaceViewDir in shaders not working in VR (fix included in post)

Discussion in '5.4 Beta' started by ccsander, May 31, 2016.

  1. ccsander

    ccsander

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    For a both-eye camera and with single-pass stereo off, WorldSpaceViewDir returns the exact same vector. This results in specular/gloss not being correctly stereoscopic. All surface shaders appear to use this function when passing viewDir to the lighting function.

    In UnityCG.cginc this function is defined this way:

    inline float3 UnityWorldSpaceViewDir( in float3 worldPos )
    {
    return _WorldSpaceCameraPos.xyz - worldPos;
    }

    I have found it can be fixed by using the unity_CameraToWorld matrix as follows:

    inline float3 UnityWorldSpaceViewDir( in float3 worldPos )
    {
    float3 wpos;
    wpos.x = unity_CameraToWorld[0][3];
    wpos.y = unity_CameraToWorld[1][3];
    wpos.z = unity_CameraToWorld[2][3];
    return wpos - worldPos;
    }

    It is kind of a pain to override UnityCG.cginc, so I'm hoping there will be an official fix for this. I haven't been able to move to single-pass stereo due to poorer performance and also broken effects.

    ccs
     
  2. thep3000

    thep3000

    Unity Technologies

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