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Re: Material editors vs. Custom shader code
Hi all, ShaderFX was not abandoned. It has been acquired by Autodesk and its development has moved there. If you want to be on a future beta, drop me an email: kees.rijnen at autodesk. As for the question about node editor versus hand-code. It is mostly a personal preference. From a code inefficiency point of view. if you… -
Custom shader help
Hello. Hope you are fine and doing well. I've been working in Substance Designer and Marmoset since a few months back, I use custom shader mostly for presentation, but I wanted to start learning about custom shader, so I started by trying to solve a very specific and simple problem. Below there is a tardigrade egg texture… -
Re: Lighting for mobile in Unity (optimization)
Use forward rendering + single pass shaders that make use of forward rendering. This will allow each object to use a single directional light + any number of vertex lights but usually limited to four in the shader. You can add the vertex lighting calculation into the vert section of your shader. UnityCG.cginc has two… -
My trees are glowing (Unity)
I'm having a problem. I have a doubble sided shader for my trees in Unity and they look fine sometimes but in our game scene they are glowing like crazy. i copied this shader for them but i don´t know if the problem is the shader or the ligt. what can I do? We only have a directional light in the scene Shader: Shader… -
Re: The wonders of technical art (Unreal Engine)
The reflections and shadows look nice. I was also experimenting with area lights and shadows, but this is some next level stuff. Fun stuff. I think you need to wrap your functions inside a struct to be able to reference other structs. #ifndef RAYMARCHING #define RAYMARCHING struct SDFHitResult { float hit; float3 hitpos;… -
Re: Useful UDK HLSL Trick
I would use a simple approach. Basically all you have to do is : ( 1 - glossiness ) * numofmipmaps. In my case it's 7. My setup : If your are using phong or blinn you might want to multiply your glossiness by 128 in order to get a range of 0 - 1 to avoid value like 180 or 200. But with a cook torrance or a spherical…
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