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Acces to unity final pass shader (deferred)

Discussion in 'Shaders' started by larsbertram1, Jan 7, 2014.

  1. larsbertram1

    larsbertram1

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    hi there,

    does anybody know if we have access to the final pass shader (deferred lighting) which combines albedo, lighting and emission?
    and if so, how?

    thanks, lars
     
    larsbertram1, Jan 7, 2014
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  2. Farfarer

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    I thought that was all in Internal-PrePassLighting.shader ?
     
    Farfarer, Jan 7, 2014
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  3. larsbertram1

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    just like its name might indicate it only writes lighting and shadows but it does not combine albedo, lighting and emission.
     
    larsbertram1, Jan 7, 2014
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  4. Dolkar

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    The final pass is a classic per object pass you define in a shader. To get it, simply read the compiled shader and find a pass named.. I think it was LightPass Final?
     
    Dolkar, Jan 7, 2014
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  5. Daniel_Brauer

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    Yeah, Unity uses a lighting pre pass technique, which has everything rendered first into a G-buffer and then again reading from the L-buffer to determine final colour.
     
    Daniel_Brauer, Jan 7, 2014
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  6. Ippokratis

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    I find the shadow pipeline pretty confusing.
    I try to sort it out with AutoLight.cginc

    SHADOWS_NATIVE ???
    SHADOWS_OFF No shadows
    SHADOWS_SCREEN ???
    SHADOWS_DEPTH ???
    SHADOWS_CUBE Point light shadows
    SHADOWS_SOFT Spot light shadows

    Any ideas on what those ??? can be ?
     
    Ippokratis, Jan 7, 2014
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  7. larsbertram1

    larsbertram1

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    hi dolkar,

    thanks for the reply. i guess you are right. and it is called:
    Name "PREPASS"
    Tags { "LightMode" = "PrePassFinal" }
    from what i can see.
    well, i think i will have to get deeper into the actual rendering pipeline.

    lars
     
    larsbertram1, Jan 7, 2014
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  8. RamzaB

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    Just want to share what I found. After looking at the compiled code, I found that

    SHADOWS_NATIVE seems to use shadow2DEXT to sample the shadow map, in which the calculation whether the current z is in front of the shadow map is done in the hardware directly.

    Meanwhile, SHADOWS_SCREEN seems to be the usual shadow map technique, using texture2DProj to sample the shadow map, and then compare the current z to the result in the code.

    I am talking from OpenGL point of view, but I think it should be similar for DX as well
     
    RamzaB, Aug 6, 2014
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