Web player shaders not working!

Hi all,

Long time reader, first time poster.

I hacked together a simple falloff shader using the shield example from the wiki. Basically creates a halo behind/around an object.

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. Shader "HaloShader"
3. {
4.     Properties
5.     {
6.         _Color ("Tint (RGB)", Color) = (1,1,1,1)
7.     }
8.     SubShader
9.     {
10.         ZWrite Off
11.         Tags { "Queue" = "Transparent" }
12.        
13.         Pass
14.         {
15.             Cull Front
16.             Blend One One
17.            
18.             CGPROGRAM
19.             #pragma vertex vert
20.             #pragma fragment frag
21.             #pragma fragmentoption ARB_fog_exp2
22.             #include "UnityCG.cginc"
23.  
24.             struct v2f
25.             {
26.                 V2F_POS_FOG;
27.                 float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
28.                 float2 uv2 : TEXCOORD1;
29.                 float3 normal : TEXCOORD2;
30.             };
31.            
32.             uniform float _Offset;
33.            
34.             v2f vert (appdata_base v)
35.             {
36.                 v2f o;
37.                 PositionFog( v.vertex, o.pos, o.fog );
38.                
39.                 float3 viewDir = normalize(ObjSpaceViewDir(v.vertex));
40.                 o.uv = TRANSFORM_UV (0);
41.                 o.uv2 = float2( abs (dot (viewDir, v.normal)), 0.5);
42.                 o.normal = v.normal;
43.                 return o;
44.             }
45.            
46.             uniform float4 _Color;
47.  
48.             half4 frag (v2f f) : COLOR
49.             {
50.                 float ramp = f.uv2.x * _Color.a;
51.                 half4 outColour = ramp * _Color;
52.                
53.                 return half4 (outColour.r, outColour.g, outColour.b, ramp.r);
54.             }
55.            
56.             ENDCG
57.  
58.         }
59.     }
60.    
61.     Fallback "Transparent/Diffuse"
62. }
63.  

Simple enough. Works perfectly in the editor however when I build to webplayer, all I get is opaque black! Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?

Many thanks

 

Hi, welcome to the forum!

Just to check... you are testing the webplayer on the same computer, right?

 

Aye, same machine. Couldnt find anything in docs or forums about similar quirks or issues with webplayer. The shader compiles to 1.x and 2.0 also so hardly taxing on the card or system. None of the standard shaders have issues. As far as I can tell a shader that runs in the editor should run on the same machine in a browser plugin. Therefore it indicates issue between monitor and chair! (me )

Nothing special I have to do to include custom shaders in a web build, etc?

 

I should add that there's no errors in the web player logs either.

 

are you sure the object that uses this shader is present in the build at all? check the editor log (log -> editor log button) after building to see if there is potentially a problem with it on build

 

Aha I think you've cracked it. Not knowing what the editor log contained was my failing. Thanks for the pointer.

In the 'Player size statistics' section, was this telling lil line..

Code (csharp):

1. Shaders       0.0 kb     0.0%

No shaders appear in the compiled assets list either.

I was using foo.renderer.material.shader = Shader.Find("HaloShader"); and, tho this worked fine in editor, it worked much better on web when it was placed in a Resources folder!

I am referencing them in code and most are used in nearly every scene so Resources would seem the place to put them. However is there a folder I should be putting my shaders into for the build to function normally?

Thanks again