► DirectX 11 Low Poly Shader ◄

It will be added in the next updates.



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Reading through the thread, i assume this works on Unity / Gaia Terrains?

 

Terrain shader is included.



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Have you seen any performance increases/decreases in the CPU usage?

Furthermore, why would I potentially use "Flat Mesh Generator" over this asset if it can have the issues you describe?

 

Meshes generated with Flat Mesh Generator can be rendered on any device, as texture color there is baked inside mesh vertex color, while DX11 Low Poly shader requires device with GeometryShader.

CPU is not used during rendering, so not a big difference.




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Very nice results :---)

 

Incredible, love the paper-craft effect!

 

Paper-craft effect willbe added in the coming update.



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v0.92 will be compatible with Wireframe shader (currently price is 20% off) for creating amazing paper-craft effect.



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update to v0.92 and check paper-craft effect.
Wireframe shader is required only if need wireframe visualization on mesh edges.

Above scene is included, just without image effects.



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For those of us who have not worked with them much, how do you apply the terrain shader to a unity terrain?

 

is support for iOS available yet - also, if so, why is it called DirectX shader?

 

1. Create new material with VacuumShaders/DirectX 11 Low Poly/Nature/Terrain shader.
2. Inside Terrain Settings change Material type from Buitl-In Standard to Custom
3. Assign new created material.
4. If Unity does not update terrain, save scene and restart editor.



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Try this test shader on your device. If any of render target is rendered in green, you can use DirectX 11 Low Poly shader.



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Nice shaders, but i have read somewhere that the folder must reside in the root asset directory? Is this really true?!?

 

Yes, all VacuumShaders assets must be inside main Assets folder.



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Doesn't work on iOS / Android platforms. Changing a platform turns all shaders to red in the Tester.

Am I doing something wrong?

 

If test shaders are rendered in Red color, it means that device has no GeometryShaders support.



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That makes me extremely sad :c
I was planning to use these shaders for mobile; any possible workarounds for it to work on iOS?

 

Only if device hardware manufacturers add GeometryShaders support.



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Can you give a method to move the folder to a subfolder? Anybody doing serious projects need to be able to do this.

 

I love that paper effect. Is it possible you can make a shader that looks like that for mobile?

Doesn't have to be this tech, but a normal shader maybe.

 

Paper-craft effect is achieved by using flat shading + animation modifier script + wireframe shader (optional).

I have Flat Mesh Generator that does the same job as DirectX11 Low Poply shader but it requires mesh conversion, effect is the same. You can use animation modifier script with that tool and will have paper-craft effect on mobile.

Wireframe shader is optional but works on any device, even on mobile.



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What kind of settings are available for the terrain shader? Can you choose how low poly it looks? I probably need this because I have a huge terrain and using mesh conversion generates huge data files.

Btw the test shaders are no longer available for download, can you fix this?

 

Do you support Ambient occlusion and instancing?

 

Shader does not reduce mesh vertex count. But for terrain you can increase Pixel Error option inside terrain settings that will give more lowpoly look.
There is no additional settings for terrain shader, just like unity built-in terrain shaders.



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Will be added in the next update.



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You see I have a very large terrain (30km x 30km or something) and I would actually like it to be less low poly than it is right now, but I can't do that because the low poly mesh generator I use generates too large files (7GB+). Would your shader work for this?

 

It will give lowpoly look.

But if you really need to reduce vertex count and optimize your project check Terrain To Mesh plugin.



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I am not looking to reduce vertex count, but actually kind of the opposite.
I am currently using the Polyworld terrain converter and the problem is that I want it to look more like the original terrain and I can't do that without creating massive mesh files. Can this shader do that?

 

You mean take a low poly mesh and make it smoother? Put it in a 3D modeling software and click the smooth button.
This shader is to make things look faceted.

 

"Smoother" was a bit unclear on my part. I'm trying to make my terrain look more high poly, but still faceted.

 

This shader is amazing! great work!

I'm struggling to add it to water. How do i go about it? thanks a lot!

 

never mind. I've done it
i just used a cloth reactor and placed the shader on it :S

 

Alright I ended up buying the asset since I'm tired of asking questions. Hopefully it's as good as people say it is

 

Ah I see that the size of triangles are adjusted based on how far away the camera is. I thought there was a fixed amount of triangles, that's why I asked the questions. Great asset, worked perfectly.

 

Hello. After updating the asset to the latest release I'm getting multiple errors when trying to do anything. The terrain shader broke immediately and when I then tried the geometry shaders I got even more errors. Why is this and how do I fix it? The shader worked perfectly before and DX11 is still enabled. I also tried creating the material from scratch again, but no success. If it's worth noting, I use Unity 5.5.1f.

Picture: http://imgur.com/a/RFBVN

 

Latest update is only for Unity 5.6 (check release notes).
It is strange that Unity 5.5 Editor allowed you to download package for Unity 5.6

Solution:
1) Remove asset from the project.
2) Clean Asset Store cache:
PC - C:\Users\[Your Profile Name]\AppData\Roaming\Unity\Asset Store
MAC - "~/Library/Unity/Asset\ Store".
3) Now, download package from the Asset Store.

There are 3 version of the asset on the store for Unity 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6
If Unity Editor will fail again and download wrong version use support E-mail vacuumshaders@gmail.com for receiving 5.5 version.



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Ah, ok. I had a backup of the version I used before, so I'll just keep using that one.

 

Is there any way to set the LOD? I would like to have mountains that are far away always show the same amount of triangles or is it just a result of the normal Unity LOD at work?

 

Hey Davit,

Got this today and have a few questions, which I hope you can provide answers for.

1) Could you explain the "Low Poly Light" material option please?
2) I would like to know your opinion on whether LODs are even useful with this setup. Would you recommend continue using LODs or would this create an unnecessary overhead?

Thanks in advance.

 

Hi Arkhivrag,

I got a question

How can I practically proof for myself this moment?

I tried faceted model in 3dsMax, it's showing me several normals per vertex. But I cant see several vertices in the same position. I am missing something? Or does it (tripled vertices count) happens internally on GPU?

 

Sorry for late answer. Sometimes Unity does not send me notifications about thread activates.

Low Poly Light renders flat lighting if camera is in Forward rendering mode.

On first image Low Poly Light is Off and lighting looks smooth.
On the second image it is On.


LODs are always useful.
Note, shader does not reduce mesh vertex count, it only renders in Low Poly style.



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If you import flat shaded mesh into Unity or generate such mesh inside Unity - mesh vertex count always will be 3 times more than triangle count. Each triangle has its own set of unique vertices (3 vertices). It is the only way of creating flat shaded / low poly style meshes.



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Oh okay, thank you a lot

 

@Arkhivrag hi, I really like the shader. I want to use it a lot. Can you make GPU Instancing support for the shaders? (noob shader question) Is there any LOD Shader support? Thanks

 

GPU Instancing has been added for Unity 5.6 update. Does not it work in Unity 2017.1?
There is no LOD - shader renders mesh without effecting/modifying its vertices.



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Thanks I'm just asking before decide to buy it not. Just purchased since GPU Instancing is supported.

 

Hello, how could I enable the wireframe shader and not have it affect all meshes with the low poly shader on them? Specifically, I want my terrain to not have the wireframe.

Also, I love your work! I started playing with this shader a few days ago and ended up going on a shopping spree, buying up nearly all of your assets. Amazing stuff.

 

Hi Arkhivrag
I've been using your Mesh Materializer tool with my terrain, and the results are great. Would this shader give the same visual effect as the mesh that produces? Does it have options for different smooth/hardness for the colours/shading? Can you control how faceted the resulting terrain will be?
Similarly, let's say I applied the shader to a sphere...can i control how 'low poly' the sphere will look with the shader?

thanks for your time and the amazing assets.