You can no longer override the grass shader for terrain?

Taking some tips from years back, it seems like you could override the grass shader by simply downloading the appropriate built-in shaders then changing lines. Now I've seen a recent thread where people are having trouble doing this, you import the built-in shader and it doesn't override it.

Is there a way in where the built in shaders can still be overridden?

 

I'm guessing that was my post you saw, I haven't been able to solve this oof its very frustrating

 

For me it really is as well, I have no way of making my own grass thats as fast as the terrain grass.

Its not until this moment that I realize how slow gameobjects actually are in comparison.

 

Indeed, it's crazy that no one at Unity has replied to any of these posts. It feels like we're just screwed

 

Alright, will do. @joshcamas Are you going to report it first? I can support the bug report you put up, otherwise I'll get to it as soon as I can.

 

Sure, I'll put the bug report up tomorrow and link it here

 

I think the "hack" was "fixed" since Unity 2019.1 since it introduced changes to the shader compiler (with the addition of async shader compilation). This is probably why it's no longer possible.

Everyone would have more benefit from being able to set the grass/detail shader directly in the terrain settings. Without this, there is currently no way to use custom grass shaders on the terrain.

The only way to have custom grass is to add the grass prefab as a "tree". But this will mark every tree instance as a navmesh obstacle. Next to trees not being able to align to the terrain, resulting in "floating" grass on slopes. Far from ideal!

 

I agree that we should be able to plug in override shaders, just like how terrain shaders can be overridden.

 

Ah, that's really a shame, it really goes to show how slow gameobjects are in comparison with having grass which is highly optimized with terrain and able to have so many objects on screen at once. I'm actually just considering at this point using the semi-blurred grass, I wanted to get it so that it uses point filtering instead of bilinear. : /

I'll see if just creating a custom prefab using a customized version of the grass billboard will work.