What shaders would you guys want?

I know how to enable generating mipmaps, but don't know how to override which gets applied at different distances, so no, I have not tried that. I am searching now for how to do it to see if that would work, but I would think it would have similar problems since mipmaps are just alternate textures, aren't they?

 

If you can post your texture and terrain mesh? I'll take a look and see if i can find a cheap solution. Having shaders doing the blurry stuff is inappropriate.

 

Daniels suggestion is also a cheap way to get what you want, but for a 4096*4096 uncompressed texture you should have some serious reasons not to have a conventional (multi-splat) terrain. xD

 

I am not sure how to disable compression. I have been importing the texture as ARGB 32 bit, but am unsure if that still undergoes some compression (likely). Linked at the bottom is a 36 MB .zip containing some sample files produced from WorldMachine2 (individual files are too large to attach):

An example heightmap (2048x2048 .raw). Import the heightmap at 250x50x250 for intended scale.
A corresponding texture (2048x2048).
A corresponding normal map (2048x2048).

I can produce 4096x4096 textures if necessary...

Link to .zip

 

@sgoodrow,
I've attached an image of your terrain and textures (top view):



I don't see any rainbow effect (the problem you where describing). What i see i a normal blurry behavior when you start to zoom in. In this case, I've set both provided textures to Automatic Truecolor to avoid compression artifacts.
But anyway, if you need more help on this, try to send me a PM (we are getting a bit of topic here).

 

Merry Christmas, and we hope for a Christmas present !

 

OIT Dual Depth Peeling, would be nice
http://developer.download.nvidia.com/SDK/10/opengl/src/dual_depth_peeling/doc/DualDepthPeeling.pdf

 

I vote for SSDO (Screen Space Directional Occlusion) any time - it's a mixture of Global Illumination and Ambient Occlusion working completely in image space.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bRkyG3R-eI
Paper: www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~ritschel/Papers/SSDO.pdf

 

thank you for the updates!

 

II would like a shader where it used a pre-generated AO mapping (from blender) and a diffuse texture.

 

To be lately released, this a preview of a custom mobile shadowmap/lighting system that does everything in one pass!
Runs extremely fast.

 

You want the lightmap to interact with Unity lighting system or it doesn't matter to you?
I guess the lightmaps UVs (2nd channel) are already set inside Blender?

@To anyone else, I'm trying to get some free time this week to complete your requests, tanks for being patient!

 

damn, your custom mobile shadowmap/lighting system looks pretty sweet, nice job! are we getting our hands on it at some point in the future?

thanks for this thread in the first place, it's totally worth being patient.

 

yea, I would like it to interact with Unity's lighting and for Blender you can set up a second channel if you want (I haven't yet).

 

Only color and lightmaps?

 

As soon as we ship our current game (Forgotten Memories) it should be automatically on the Asset Store.
It is extremely fast, the game runs 30-45 fps with all post-effects, lighting and shadows (on heavy scenes) in iPad2/iFun4S.
We have a gameplay video coming soon, where the system will be showcased, I'll post it through here once live.
Cheers,

 

Yup, that will work.

 

Gimme a minute.

 

Wait a sec, by interact your lightmaps with lighting i mean real-time lighting (not baking). Is that what you want?

 

Try this:
View attachment $Diffuse_Lightmap.shader

 

Works, only thing is that I have to put the lightmap in the diffuse texture place and vise versa. Thanks

 

You have two textures slots, diffuse and lightmaps. Lightmaps slot is where your custom lightmaps will go.

 

I tried that, Model instead went fully black.

 

Did you tried the build-in shader: "Legacy Shaders/Lightmapped/Diffuse"?
It does the same.

 

Any news on the shaders ?!

 

@Giakaama,
What was your request? I complettly forgot. ^^
When i get some time this week I'll try to work on it.

 

Can you please help me with a cartoon shader with an outline ( something like Borderlands2 ) and can it have

Diffuse ( with Alpha )
Normal Map
Specular Map (with gloss and intesity)
Outline ( color and size )

Thank you !

 

That's relatively easy to do. I'll see if i get some free time this week and work on it.

 

Consider it S O L D, now get finishing that game!

 

That would be great !

 

A proper mobile bumped diffuse to be used with point lights

 

Here: View attachment $Mobile-Bumped.shader
You'll find it under "Mobile/Bumped Diffuse Lights"
If you remove noforwardadd pragma directive to any surface shader, it will support all pixel lights. But keep in mind real-time lighting in mobile hardware is really costly.

I'll see if i can do others peoples requests today. ^^

 

Any news on the shaders ?!

 

I'm working on it right now.

 

Me HUG you !

 

@Giakaama,
There you go:
View attachment $Outline_Shaders.rar

I've packed two versions of the borderland style shader, due to the limitness of surface shaders I've added two versions of it. One that is normal outlines (so you can customize the outline color) and the second which is a dark-only version (as seen in borderland).
I can do a more optimized CG shader but this will require a bit more of time (which i don't have right now).
Hope it can help, let me know if you like it.
Post some images of your game, how it looks with the shader.

 

When you have some free time, please share your results.

 

Thanx for the Shader and I did a test with your shader and with the one I was using already ! Hmmm your shader has more " punch " but Farfarer has more Borderlands feel !

I guess I'll have to decide which one ! by the way, your shader gives me a warning

"Not enough temporary registers, needs 9 ( compiling for flash ) at line 15" ( I don't want to compile for flash )

 

The warning is because it's a really heavy shader (bumped+specular+all tweakable properties) in a surface shader. I can create an optimized version of it but i don't have much time right now sorry. -_-

Btw, my version it's a simplified outline shader nothing fancy. It uses standard Unity lighting model which produces a bit more realistic results (or standard results). Farfarer one looks more like a toonysh with a strong outline due to the custom ramp and lighthing model which is pretty good but it's also heavier.

So if you are really looking for a bigger toonysh look, go with farfarer mod version. If you look for something less heavy and more realistic (less toonysh) go with mine.

 

Thank you for the answers ! How can I put the outline in your shader ? I've tried but failed !

 

Try to reduce the _RimPower (it will create an inner/deeper outline) if your rise it, it will become thinner. ^^
And post more images once you get the results you are looking for.

 

Any chance you could whip up a grass shader with partial transparency and cutoff?

 

Sure, not a problem. Gimme a minute.

 

There you go:
View attachment $Ground Grass Wind AlphaTest.shader
You'll find the shader in this category "Custom Shaders/Nature/Ground Grass Wind AlphaTest".
You can use any plane or mesh with (better if you use double-side planes), no need to paint vertex colors, works out of the box. Oh yeah, recommended to use standard mesh/flowers/bushes textures as it needs the top of textures UVs to animate the top (and avoid moving vetices at the bottom).

I'll be happy if you guys shows some results (images or videos) with the shaders we freely provide. It encourages us a lot to work free for the community (when we aren't busy)!
Cheers,

 

Got it, thanks.

 

Do you think possible a shader like the following?

- http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/171951-Glow-from-texture?p=1175884#post1175884

 

I'm gonna give it a look later. I would be glad to help for free and have some credits in your app for it.
Cheers,

[EDIT]
That glow effect requires a post-processing technique.
This is how i plan to do it:
Objects will be selectively rendered into a camera. I then render the objects Glow textures into a RenderTarget (it would be a Black and White full-screen texture), I'll use this texture to selectively get pixels from the screen and to bright them and offset them to create that blurry effect around the glow area.
A cheaper but less accurate effect would be a bloom effect.

 

Well, I hope you can help me out here because I'm having a heck of a time doing this myself. I've been trying for over a month but I just can't wrap my head around ShaderLab syntax.

According to Noisecrime:

It's no rush, but any help would be great.

 

That can be easily achieved. Do you really need the banding effect? Or a linear-smoothing could do your job?