Generally...how bad is this?

Oniram

Hey everyone, ive been workin on putting together a shader that can be instanced for the easy plug-in ability for a project im working on. here's the thing.. this shader has 69 instructions.. the shader includes the following:

Diffuse lerped with reflection
Spec
Gloss
Normal + Tileable Normal

im getting into the red zone now and im wondering how cost effective this will be, as i planned to use this shader on almost everything.. in the images is pretty much just bsps.aside from the few meshes on the left.


also ive included a screen of the material

cholden

Seems fine to me. I've seen more complex parents on projects.

sprunghunt

Hit the little skull button at the top of the material editor. It'll delete expressions you're not using.

Oniram

cholden: ah ok. generally i thought than anything in the red spectrum is bad, im just hoping that in excess it wont have too much of an effect on performance.

sprunghunt: thx.. didnt know that.

Xoliul

The color changes depending on if your lighting is baked or not, and if it's being affected by dynamic lights, so keep that in mind. I think you haven't baked it yet, so don't trust the color, it'll probably become green once the lighting is baked.

Oniram

XD the lighting is baked.. but then again this is set to preview quality.. dont know if that makes a difference, and also in the final layout there should be walls n things covering a lot with shadow so i think it should be ok. thx all.