Strumpy Shader Editor [Now Open Source]

Well tried the tutorial, and um...



I have a feeling this has something to do with my ramp texture though. After taking this screen shot I set the texture to clamp and it dimmed those shiny bright areas but other then that didn't help much. Is there a specific set up I need to have for the ramp texture or what?

 

Did you try loading the example one to see how that works with all the pieces? It works fine for me, (but it doesn't retain the effect if used on a surface that becomes lightmapped).

 

I got the same result when I added diffuse and bump maps to the example one. Mind showing me the ramp texture you used?



And here's the graph I used, I'm fairly sure I followed the tutorial closely. And the result I got wasn't nearly as weird. The Ramp texture is a .psd (which I'm having trouble uploading to anything) don't have photoshop on this computer so I'll try uploading it later.

 

For the most part, the pixel graph side of things is fine, and generally easy enough (and fun, thank you for that btw) to experiment in and see what happens, except for more advanced effects which would be nice to get ideas from. The vertex and lighting ones though, don't seem so easy to test ideas in, less forgiving I suppose you could say.

 

Yeah but my thinking was along the lines of, by removing the distortion side of things, bam no transparency "oh where to look now" off into settings, change a few things, transparency ahoy. Learning by doing. Plus it's the closest to transparent as there is in the examples, and I can't break off right now to make one for him.


Edit: nvm, here's a really simple one, and a version with a basic reflection (cubemap). Rename after downloading.

 

Thanks for that, it fixed it. Not sure what was wrong with my other texture. Shouldn't any gradient work?

 

Missing MeshUV problem solved! - current versions of everything(Unity 3.3, SSE 4.0a) got SSE back up looking like it did before (whew!)

still getting errors like "implicit cast from float4 to half3" and "expression left of ."uv_Sampler2D" is not a struct or array" when I set up the graph like the one that worked in Unity 3.1




any help greatly appreciated!

 

Bah, should warn people they NEED to upgrade to v 3.3 to download your store version. That version is buggy as hell, I'm waiting for 3.4. First kink in the SSE armor *sniffles*.

 

Must be an issue with the store, there's no link provided, just a message that 3.3 is required to download it.


Edit: And 3.3 is buggy, I've seen way too many problem threads about it to risk upgrading until 3.4. It doesn't offer anything in the fixes or additions for 3.3 that interest me either, I've no use for android development stuff either.

 

It's the first time I've seen it actually. Which makes me wonder if it does that depending on the version used to package it, in which case a lot of folk uploading to the store are still on 3.2 (yay, I'm not imagining the bugs then! hahaha).

And no, SSE isn't buggy at all from what I can tell.

 

Wellllllll....




Nah seriously, now I'd be the first one to whine and moan, but I honestly haven't found anything I'd consider a bug. When something hasn't worked right, it's because I did something wrong. Really all I think it needs right now is updated docs, and the lighting and vertex graphs getting more love

Oh, and a way to use the end result of the specular effect as the alpha like the builtin ones can do, still not worked that bit out yet

 

I would love to colour code my nodes, just for fun SSE 4 rules

 

Same issue here. I'm sticking to 3.2 until 3.4 is released. Unless you're developing for Android there really isn't any good reason to update to 3.3.

 

Hey did you remove the Update Button, on the free version? be cause I made changes, and now I need to click:

File>Save then, File>Open>Select the file, now its super slow this process do you thing that be able this again on the free version of unity, on next updates?

Cheers
Deo.

 

Preview.

 

It still works the same... just create your shader, and click export as and give it a file name. Now whatever change you make to your graph, just hit export and it will automatically make changes

 

Hello all,
I am in need of a human skin shader made using the strumpy shader and am willing to pay
for the shader. If someone is interested, please send me a pm with an image of the shader as
well as it being applied to a character, so I can see it applied. A screenshot of the
node graph would be cool as well. Any help with this would be appreciated.
Thanks

 

Great to see this on the Asset Store x

 

Hi,
This look great,
Still, I encountered a problem.
When I try to add a Object2World node (for example this happen with few more nodes) to the vertex graph I get a red node with the error: node not valid in graph type: Vertex", but the tooltip about the node says this node is valid only in the vertex graph.

I'll appreciate any help on this
Thanks

 

How are those video tuts coming along Stramit? Texels documentation is getting a bit dated. I'm a bit lost on the lighting graph stuff.

Not to rush though. I know you guys are busy. =)

 

Is it currentely possible to write to the alpha channel of an opaque shader? That channel is used for glow post-process effects. I tried putting inputs into the alpha field, but it always comes out white.

You can view the alphas in the scene view via a toggle at the top.

 

I'd like to know too, also how do I make my emission to affect lightmaps?

 

Hey stramit..
is it possible to make an outline in your shader editor?
im totally lost about which node to use for that kinda result...

 

Wow I just decided to start using your editor and I find 67 pages of posts. Congratz on making such a great tool!

So my first question would be: Is there one central location where all the different shaders people have posted are stored?

 

Nope, no one has posted any shaders. Well there are some but very little.

 

I recently posted a shader on here... maybe we could all start a repository...

 

Why not start a new page in the wiki (under projects?) and post them there? The wiki has been around about as long as Unity has and seems to be the best place to keep things together.

 

If we're gonna do that, we should work out a specific system for how things will look, a page template for SSE shaders and graphs, so they're all the same. Nothing looks worse than some half arsed page with some download that doesn't work. Should include a preview, perhaps done with the preview, and default textures, so people can see exactly how it looks.

Or something like that, I dunno. I'm kinda meh now about the whole thing. Too many tend to beg, then just take and don't bother to say thanks after you've made something for them, so you know, F*** em.

 

I think it would benefit SSE to have a repository of example graphs and even an ugly list is better than no list IMO.

 

Totally agree. A repo of some sorts would be very nice

 

im paying 100 dollars to the person that can make me a really good skin shader

 

Well, I hope Stramit doesn't mind but I took it upon myself to create a page on the wiki to serve as a repository for SSE sgraphs. I also added its first shader, the planet shader from the SSE tutorials that I've modified by removing the city lights. I've updated this shader so it works with the latest version of SSE and tested it with Unity 3.2 Pro under Windows 7. The wiki page and sgraph can be found here: http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=Strumpy_Shader_Editor

My hope is that others will also contribute to the wiki so we can all learn and benefit from this. Thanks again Stramit for your wonderful contribution!

 

Including a screenshot of the shader in action with every graph would be nice. Thanks for getting this started.

 

That is awesome... i am always updating my shader...

 

Agreed. If I get a chance I'll do it or someone else is welcome to edit the post if they like. Anyone can edit the wiki, you just need to create an account. I'll leave this up for a few weeks or so and see if anyone else contributes. If no one else contributes, I'll probably remove the page. A repository with only one shader seems pointless.

 

I just created an account for this repository...could I be as detailed as I like?

 

There's a page that gives guidelines for what should be posted. I just looked at the source for a couple other pages and mimicked what they did. Personally, I think a small picture, short description and a link to the sgraph (zipped up) is probably good enough. If you want to include a lengthy explanation, maybe include a .txt file in the zip.

 

Waiting for that video tutorials

 

That sounds fair ...i still need to set up a model as an example

 

Hi,

First off, awesome editor! I just replicated this graph, and have everything working in windows, both preview and editor. When I open up this shader network on my mac, the preview image of the shader still looks correct, but in the editor window it seems the alpha blending is culling everything behind the object, resulting in no real transparency change really.

0% alpha


about 50% alpha


100% alpha


I tried also just using a color value to control alpha but no luck. Again this only happens on Mac. Using forward rendering, at fantastic quality settings. Am I missing something?

*EDIT* I'm referencing this glass shader base posted on http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/561...vements/page49 6 posts down