shaders

[past pewter]

hey can someone help me

[low hawk]

Anyone have any good shaders to simulate the effects of beads on water on a glass window?

[past pewter]

sry caps on

my bad

[exotic helm]

Shaders - Standard

Probuilder Vertex defaults work properly thought

Using Baked Light

Unity is rendering beautifully and properly. In-game different ball game

Did the same thing with just a plane scene with one room and it's still the same result.

[past pewter]

hey can someone help me getting this https://i.gyazo.com/984f97cca1655f8101493a7309211dba.png

to this https://i.gyazo.com/4a4d59db1e62f205b214f9da3790fca8.png

from the textres

[past pewter]

Does anybody know the shader that changes the color of the mesh it is on based on the angle you look at it. I assume it has something to do with the normals viewed angle.
It's used on the eye of a model and if it looks down at you the eye is red and if it looks up at you it is blue

[tulip ferry]

Maybe just a matcap?

[velvet sorrel]

Well, there's mine:
https://s-ilent.booth.pm/items/2336731

[low hawk]

🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

[low hawk]

it's actually what i already went for

we came full circle

[thorn isle]

Do you use shaders to create water for a world or is it something else? I've been trying to make water for awhile and I am not sure if you use material for it?

[velvet sorrel]

Yeah, typically you'd make water out of a water material and an effect volume inside it (like with post processing) to add screen effects. For the surface, I have a shader here : https://s-ilent.booth.pm/items/2577099

[alpine plover]

Is there a way to have cameras, that project their image to a target texture, be visible to friends? I just tested it out and it doesn't seem to work. I was testing it with a friend. I just recently got back into VRChat and I remember that it worked ages ago. Is there some workaround e.g. by using a shader? I may have also done something wrong but I am not sure what it would be. I just created a camera in unity, it transmits its data to a render texture. I then just put it on a plane. For me my camera and the render texture works just fine but my friend only sees a black plane. 🤔 Any help is very much appreciated

[alpine plover]

just checked through past messages in the chat. Lyuma posted something on the 27.10.2020. You aparently have to enable the camera with an animation for your friends to see it. If you read this Lyuma then thanks ✌️

[wind cipher]

best shaders to use for mmd?

[fossil cedar]

Usually I've ended up using Cubeds toon shaders

[thorn isle]

Is it a combination of a cloth modifier with your shaders that simulate waves? 🤔

[rose pewter]

@wind cipher I'd recommend using Poiyomi

[steep swift]

https://github.com/synergiance/Synergiance-Shaders-For-Unity Synergiance was designed to work the same as MMD, and it handles lighting very well

[hasty raven]

anybody got a toon shader I can use that has different UV Maps?

[hasty raven]

actually

Cell Shading amirite? XD

he looks like he came from the actual show

[fast crow]

Can someone can give me a hand with Untiy Shaders

[static frigate]

anyone help me out with this ? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/730948173379535022/796098881212776468/unknown.png

[light urchin]

https://github.com/poiyomi/PoiyomiToonShader/releases/tag/V6.1.15
Your shaders are too old, delete and import latest

[static frigate]

@light urchin i brought the new one in and still have the 2 errors

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/730948173379535022/796106565102338058/unknown.png

[light urchin]

Just press clear those should go away, if not make sure you actually deleted the old version first before importing a new one

[static frigate]

im pretty sure i deleted it unless theres soemthing i overlooked

[light urchin]

Well did the errors go away from clear?

[static frigate]

yeah

is it all good?

[light urchin]

Yeah

[static frigate]

the thry menu didnt re appear

i dont need that do i

[light urchin]

Should still be there if you don't have any errors remaining

[static frigate]

alright cheers

[bleak lantern]

I have a problem that i never used to have on the same mode, moving shape keys for stuff like facial animations or visemes causes the shaders to kinda warp a little when using poiyomi.

anyone know what the problem is?

[static frigate]

i ported an reference smb file into blender but the model is pink with no texture and i dont know how to apply the mbp files that i think will fix it
anyone can help?

[tawny warren]

Anyone got that shader that makes it so u cant see other shaders/particles

[hardy dagger]

i think I know 🤥 of one @tawny warren

[sonic shore]

A shader to have censor like anime has pixilated, to apply to certain area.

[static frigate]

anyone know how i can apply shaders? only lets me add one at a time

[cosmic fable]

You only have one material on the avatar, so only one shader can be applied.

[static frigate]

How can i fix it?

the original version of the model has multiple slots

[cosmic fable]

If you take the model into blender, create a new material, and assign faces to it, then it'll work

[static frigate]

ah alright

is it much work?

[cosmic fable]

Not really

[static frigate]

alright

[cosmic fable]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms89wP8m4ZU

[static frigate]

cheers

[sour linden]

Who do I gotta suck off to get a compute buffer component going

I just spent like 150+ hours trying to make shader physics work with a janky ass geometry shader pass + camera + render texture for holding data

spoiler alert that shit didn't work

also ofcourse my feature request gets drowned out because no-one knows what the fuck a compute buffer is or why it would it be amazing to have for shaders

scream

I just want fucking shader physics

[tired token]

You could have at least made a better explanation on your feature request.
https://feedback.vrchat.com/feature-requests/p/graphicsblit-scripts

[sour linden]

Probably wouldn't have made a difference. From the looks of it, they already had a bunch of people behind the idea before posting it.

[stiff berry]

This is why I wrote out an explanation of what the feature would enable in the blit post so average players understand why it's important

I think chances are we will never get compute buffer component or blit component and instead we'll get them in udon which isn't quite what most of us want it for but 🤷‍♂️

having them on avatars would be nice

[sour linden]

That's kinda bogus. Compute buffer component would take no more than few hours to write. I reckon blit would be similarly easy.

[stiff berry]

for sure. We even provided a mock implementation

I would guess the reason it hasn't been added is something along the lines of "This will be added to udon eventually so let's do it correctly later instead of providing a half baked solution for now"
Also it doesn't address the avatar use case, but maybe they have plans for udon on avatars some day idk

hard to tell really

[sour linden]

I mean, if they were really doing things proper, we'd have some proper security systems that would allow for custom scripts. I even tossed the idea in the features section for adding a system where avatars are uploaded to a server which compiles and run through all of the animations, going through checks on them to make sure they're not interfering with stuff they shouldn't be, and are working within bounds. I don't reckon it would be too hard to implement either, surely a lot more work than blit or compute buffer component, but I reckon with VRChat plus out now, they've either already got or will have the resources soon enough.

[stiff berry]

I mean it took 3 years for the "Adjust volume of individuals" post to get added so it doesn't seem to matter how easy it would be

[strange crown]

Has anyone tried making a matcap shader in Amplify yet? The example Amplify matcap shader seems to tilt with head tilt and I'm still struggling to figure out a way to restrict that from happening.

Trying to do it with just nodes if possible, custom expressions are super hard for me to wrap my head around.

[dark prairie]

does someone know how to make the poiyomi metalic material ? poiyomi shader use thry editor so i can't use unity settings

[past pewter]

i can help, just dm me

[static frigate]

anyone know how i can add textures to this now ?

[wary junco]

though you are currently in wireframe mode so you won't see any textures even after adding them

click this sphere to change to material view

[static frigate]

i got a lot of work done but for some reason when i applied shaders within blender they appeared completely black

except the head

i tried to put it into unity where i clicked custom textures and then it self applied textures however they are black

except the head again

[wary junco]

Are you building for Android?

[static frigate]

wdym

[wary junco]

is this for Quest

[static frigate]

no

[wary junco]

Ok hm

I know the mobile shaders bake the vertex color into the texture

so if that part of the model has no vertex color, it gets multiplied with black

[static frigate]

these shaders do work, the original model works in vrc with them

[wary junco]

random shot in the dark but did you link two different models from different sources together?

if so their UV maps might have been named differently

[static frigate]

i dont know

what i did is i had the model in a winrar then changed it with crowbar to work in blender , from blender to mixamo and back to blender

is there any way to check?

[wary junco]

Well I know nothing about what Crowbar or Mixamo does to models, I'd just assume one of them broke it.

[static frigate]

crowbar seperated the model and textures

the model into a ref.smb and textures into bmps

[oak forge]

could i get some help please, im trying to make a working avatar for my quest and this is my first time dong this and im having a few problems

[static frigate]

i dont know too much but it seems that the shaders arent compatible for quest

[hollow plover]

hi is magic cloth compatible with vrchat???

[halcyon dove]

No

[hollow plover]

damn so sad 😦

[noble agate]

when your on

[past pewter]

go to your project folder and remove ThryEditor or Thry folders and also clear up the Poiyomi Shaders and ThryEditor folders in your project. Then reopen the project and import the newer Poiyomi shader package.

[uneven acorn]

hey friends 🙂 wondering if anyone know a good way to get eyes to appear to have depth, like a galaxy or something? sorry if this is basic im fairly new to shaders

[jovial charm]

Bit of a tough question, but anyone know how to get a float calculated on hlsl sent to a c# script? I cannot get getfloat to work

[hardy dagger]

i dont think so

[fast crow]

das someone have that shader

[hardy dagger]

i might @fast crow pretty sure its silents fake glass

[toxic egret]

I'm afraid for this you'd have to output it to a texture and then read the texture values

unless you use compute shaders

(but you probably can't do that (neither) in vrchat)

[jovial charm]

Guess I'll have to do some digging then. Thanks!

[hollow plover]

hi! i remember that i saw a screen space image shader that you could add multiple images does anyone knows which one im talking about?

[toxic egret]

Custom c# scripts aren't allowed in VRChat

@jovial charm

[jovial charm]

So udon allows scripting in vrchat and covers a huge swath of unity functionality, and interestingly someone made a c# compiler for udon, effectively allowing us to code for VRChat in c#, albiet with some obvious restrictions. After work I'll see if compute shaders are exposed in udon, since if so that will be my answer

[toxic egret]

I see the probabilities of it working in udon as very low, as compute shaders are quite the advanced topic. But if it works let me know

[past pewter]

is there any shaders with both matcaps and additive blending

im trying to port some half life stuff and it uses both

[toxic egret]

wait what is a matcap

[past pewter]

vrchat mobile has matcaps

but no additive blending

so

[visual hawk]

anyone got uhhhhhhh

RIOTFurFlat-lit FurShader

mine broek

[sonic oasis]

Yes 🙃

[light urchin]

Lightmapped is for worlds not for avatars, you can't do lightmapping on avatars

[quasi lion]

Are there any shaders similar to Unity's Unlit/Transparent Cutout for Quest?

[hardy dagger]

@quasi lion i believe the closest you can get to anything "transparent" is using additive but it may not be what you want

[quasi lion]

Yeah, it's close but not exact...Oh well, should've realised how limited Quest shaders are haha. Thanks for your help.

[sonic oasis]

And of course its the only shader that actually looked good on my avatar 😌

[light urchin]

What was the reason the other shaders looked bad? 🤔

[sonic oasis]

Too warm.

[light urchin]

Lightmapped shader only takes baked lighting so it won't abide by the lighting in your scene which by default in unity is warm looking

The other shaders abide by lighting properly changing depending on what color light is in the scene or how dark/bright the light is

You usually want to have proper lighting on avatars and not be unlit which the lightmapped shader would cause because if you are just unlit in dark scenes peoples eyes will burn by how bright you are

[sonic oasis]

Im using an angel avatar so I want to be bright af.

[light urchin]

Well that is your choice (but it might also cause people to block your avatar) and if you really want to do it just use the standard lite and plug your main texture into the emission slot

[sonic oasis]

Youre telling me that its THAT bright?

[light urchin]

Being unlit in a dark scene yes

[jovial charm]

still havent had the chance to go into it, but I was able to load in compute shaders as a reference into udon without any errors (which is a good sign since trying to load something unsupported causes errors right away). will let you know if it actually works

[sonic oasis]

Well so far I havent had any issues with the shader I use on the non quest avatar. People do tell me that im brighter than the rest of the avatars but its not a complaint though. Just them asking if I have noticed it and im just like "Yep. I chose to be bright." All about preferences in the end. Heres an example of the current brightness. Obviously I dont know how bright that shader that I cant use is but meh. I guess ill just accept my non brightness when I get this avatar to quest.

[light urchin]

That does look bright but not completely unlit

That wouldn't really bother me

[sonic oasis]

Exactly

[light urchin]

But using the lightmapped shader would cause you to be unlit

[sonic oasis]

Just a small question. Wouldnt it be considered to be lit since youre brighter instead of unlit?

[light urchin]

Simply put lit means that the shader abides by the actual lighting, unlit doesn't making it bright

[sonic oasis]

Ah.

[azure timber]

im looking for shader that makes around look dark

[storm wren]

I am building my own shaders, and trying to map things properly to the fallback shader. I am having a heck of a time getting transparency and emmission to work

I made a dummy param, and the property name should match -

What am I missing? Do I need a switch to enable Emi or something?

[muted osprey]

Any insight on why this bit of mesh is rendering over my liquid shader? I'm using a liquid shader I found on reddit, as far as the settings suggest, the top layer should render over objects behind it, but it only seems to do that for its own material. The mesh is using poiyomi's transparent shader (other variations have the same issue). Shader code is here: https://pastebin.com/ppbzx7mn

I'll get a picture of it in a bit

[ripe idol]

A transparent shader probably shouldn't be on geometry render queue

[jovial charm]

nope, got caught right as I was trying to finalize the compile with "System.NotSupportedException: Udon does not support variables of type 'ComputeShader' yet"

However, what I am essentially doing is trying to make use of the data buffer system of compute shaders. interestingly DX 11 is capable of doing this in normal old vertex shaders, so I might be able to squeeze something in through there ...

[muted osprey]

Hey poiyomi! This is what I'm referring to here, specifically the top layer of the liquid shader has this issue. Otherwise, the rest of the shader respects depth.

[safe creek]

https://i.imgur.com/36uJLmC.gif anyone know anyway i could potentially recreate this effect using a shader?

[velvet sorrel]

Yep, just recreate it in a shader

[glass sigil]

Im a bit of a noob rn so please dont judge but i found this really cool skin and i want to use this shader or texture, i really dont know. However i dont know where to download it or recreate it

[hardy dagger]

@glass sigil might be the lax or xiexe shader

i have a few shaders that might be able to recreate if you want to try them out

[glass sigil]

Honestly thats great

Im sure they look great if you can

[hardy dagger]

sure

[toxic egret]

Damn well maybe in a future update hehe

[jovial charm]

Haven't given up yet. I found an old vrchat project on githib, a neural network in a shader. It somehow is exporting results from the shader to CPU code using buffers. Still working on understanding it

[dawn vapor]

So I have a minor issue with poiyomi's shader, but it's only local (other people don't see the issue when I ask). Basically on some of my avatars, the lighting likes to flash a bit or not work properly at all depending on what world I'm in. The Avatar Testing world for example, when walking around, the lighting will flash a bit (imagine like someone shining a flashlight on you but turning it on and off every second, sort of). If I go into the dark room on the map, the lighting doesn't get affected at all and I can see my avatar fully

I've tried duplicating materials from a working avatar onto a non-working avatar and that doesn't help. I can't tell if the issue is the shader, VRChat or Unity. I had this issue on V 5.2 and still have the issue after upgrading to V 6.0 a couple of months ago. Anyone experienced this before?

[azure geode]

Does anyone have a poiyomi shader download for me? GitHub doesn't really work for me and the downloads error out around 40%

[light urchin]

You could also join the server from the github page and download it from there

[azure geode]

oh yeah, small brain, sorry :D

[light urchin]

It's most likely something in your model causing unity to grab the sample point from a weird place (which unity does sometimes even if your model isn't weird)

Set all your meshes anchor point to be your spine

[jovial charm]

Has anyone ever seen this "StoreValue" being used in shaders? I cannot find any documentation on this

nvm, its in an include file

[dawn vapor]

That solved the issue! Had no idea that was a thing, thanks 😄

[glass sigil]

Is there any way to make the shader go inwards? instead of protruding like this?

lol

[muted osprey]

Yeah, just outn't

[glass sigil]

fair

[uneven acorn]

Hey guys! Im trying to create a beam of "Volumetric Light" Using the luka shader. Is anyone familiar with how I would go about doing this? I have the shader applied to a Cube but it seems to not affect the shape directly. It instead affects a radius around it. Any tips would be helpful

[velvet sorrel]

https://twitter.com/Silent0264/status/1348652367311294468

Silent (@Silent0264)

New shader!

Sunshine Flare!

https://t.co/YPq3TYWfpN
https://t.co/z0PWHGTgr8

This shader renders light rays from the sun that are occluded by objects in front of them, as well as a sun flare effect. It's super striking, especially in VR! Try it and be surprised!

#unity #vrchat

Twitter · Jan 11, 2021, 3:25 PM

[safe creek]

anyone know of any other shaders that have a hue shift option? anything but poiyomis as my use case needs a different shader

[safe creek]

can anyone recommend any shaders or anything i can use in poiyomis to make a fancy looking springjoint ball?

[pure raven]

Just yesterday, I was walking through a park irl, thinking about how sunrays were one of the last aspects of reality missing from VR...As always, you’re ahead of the game. Thanks for all of your hard work!

[spring latch]

Can I set it to show only to myself as UTS2?
I want to make certain objects visible only to me.

Like a VR camera control panel.

[restive badge]

I'm trying to create a retro effect for a world, and I need a shader which will let me remap the scene to a 16 color palette, preferably with dithering and pixelation, or at the very least, apply this effect to a rendertexture so I can show what people's avatars look like with it enabled. Anyone have any suggestions? I see a few assets in the Unity store that do stuff like this, but they all appear to use scripts to create the effect.

[velvet sorrel]

My suggestion is don't. It'll look awful in VR.

If you need a 16 colour palette then... just use it when authoring the textures?

And because the shader can't dicern what the focus point of the headset display is, any pixellation effect is going to look totally wrong in VR

And then you want to apply it on top of people instead of the world? That'll make it a screen grabbing effect, which is pretty expensive on its own

[candid dune]

Anyone knows a shader that goes by the name of "Unlitholo" or something like that? I used it for my avatar, but I deleted it, and now I can't find where to download it again -_-
thanks

[restive badge]

Lots of things look awful in VR... Like the world which lowers the floating point precision on your avatar. But it's still fun! Obviously if the dithering renders differently in each eye, that would be a problem, which is why I'd either disable that. or if I can't, I might have to stick to rendering the view to a texture. And I can't author it into the textures because what I'm trying to do is make a world with a neat effect you can enable at will to see it on your avatar.

That'll make it a screen grabbing effect, which is pretty expensive on its own

Yeah, but the world will be extremely simple graphically. It's just one of those quirky worlds that I wanna add a little extra pizzazz to.

[velvet sorrel]

There's awful and there's awful.

[mystic pecan]

Hey there, I'm working on an avatar, but I am seeking out a couple of shaders that would work for what I am trying to do. I seem to recall a Blacklight Retribution avatar with an Ice sword that would slowly add an ice texture onto your body radiating from the blade when stabbed. Anyone have an idea where this shader is? I'd love to be able to adjust it to suit my needs.

[low hawk]

has anyone had any luck getting the mirror to apply on a non-quad shape?

can't seem to get it on mine working

is it topology dependent?

[true kernel]

so i went to go press build but right after it i realized that i forgot to press lock on my poiyomi shaders and right after i tried to press cancel but now its frozen and stuck. will i lose anything if i force close it? i saved right before uploading.

well i guess i found out the hard way... do not force close it if it gets stuck on compiling shader variants. it will break the shaders and the sdk if you do

[sweet mango]

looking for someone who can help a little bit with a shader, it already follows your position when you move around the avatar but i also want the head to look up and down in the same way that it rotates around

[past pewter]

Hey, does anyone here have a good version of the hentai dimension shader? You know the one, with the collase of lewd faces? The one I was able to find is super blurry from afar.

[past pewter]

does anyone have a time shader that shoes a specific time zone's time?

[hasty raven]

I don't think so.

[desert arrow]

does anyboda have a shader that shakes the camera?

and if yes can I download it?

a shader like in this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsYzY8pFTXI

[desert arrow]

i have searched the entire internet for such a shader

I found none

[hexed garden]

I can recommend cancerspace or mochies screenfx @desert arrow
https://github.com/AkaiMage/VRC-Cancerspace
https://github.com/MochiesCode/Mochies-Unity-Shaders

[desert arrow]

thank you

[toxic egret]

Oh god those are the worst

How to get blocked: use those shaders

For when you're trying to get into the nuisance rank

[green crane]

i have poiyomi 6.1 shader which i guess is the last free version. Does it has a outline or something? i can't find it anymore

or another question: does someone have good MMD-like shader with outlines?

[tired token]

It does have an outline, it's a separate shader

[green crane]

huh

i'll check it, thanks

still, looking for shader that looks like this https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/magical-mirai2019hatsune-miku-e8a9450e265e466ab856e3e8f8d529a0
if you know something similar please tag or dm me

[muted osprey]

There are legitimate uses for them. It's just that avatar creators that don't know what they're doing (or know and don't give a shit) will abuse those just because they can

[toxic egret]

well yeah there might be legitimate uses for them but so far every single time I have encountered in vrchat it has been super annoying and results in avatar hidings and blocks

[muted osprey]

It just takes nuance. Something a lot of people don't have. Which is why I don't help anyone on here with them

[toxic egret]

there was one that I found funny, when done once, as it was very light and didn't fuck up my vision horribly as they usually do. But then someone else started doing the same over and over again and that one resulted in great annoyance

[green crane]

please remember that shaders like this cause dizziness and discomfort for other users, especially in VR. Using these shaders is undesirable

[tired token]

That model is essentially unlit, fun fact that outline isn't in the shader, it's pre modeled.

[green crane]

yea, that's why i looking for something that can imitate it

[desert arrow]

That's why I made the effect pretty weak and the radius extremely small

[green crane]

still try to avoid use this avatar in public. and stay cheeki-breeki

[wise cradle]

first thing that comes to mind and what I would personally recommend is UnityChanToonShader2. It's typically what you see on models sold on booth.pm
Arktoon or Sunao could work too. Poiyomi can do it as it also has outline

[honest jackal]

not sure if this is the right place but i am trying to make a mincraft stile avatar and the pixles come out blurry , i am not sure what to do in unity to fix it. this is how it looks in blender . and this other if unity

[hardy dagger]

@honest jackal the texture/image needs to be set to "no point" i believe in unity

[honest jackal]

thanks i feel kinda dumb now , heh easy fix

[brisk junco]

Do yall know how to do those UI shaders where only one person can see it

Like only the person whos avatar it's attached to

[muted osprey]

Can easily just activate/show the object for that UI on a transition that checks if IsLocal is true. Doesn't have to be built into the shader

[brisk junco]

oh epic

[past pewter]

What shader should iuse for quest

[proven flare]

VRChat - Mobile

[ocean ocean]

Can anyone explain how to make a screenspace shader that can fix this issue? How this shader works is you apply it to an object and so long as the surface with the applied shader is within the bounds inside or out, it will project the image on the any other surface surface, however, if the object "clips" through a wall or object, it does not show the image. Can it be done to where regardless of whether the object with this applied shader clips through an object, still applies the screen effect?

[velvet sorrel]

My shader can do that pretty easily
https://gitlab.com/s-ilent/SCSS

It also supports Unity's lighting, unlike UCTS

[green crane]

many thanks to you

[past pewter]

where can i dowenload cube paradox flat lit toon

[halcyon dove]

That shader has been deprecated for quite some time now. Advised to use a different one.

[past pewter]

why

?

[halcyon dove]

Last it's been updated was for Unity 5.6.3p1, more likely to cause issues in modern Unity versions or when uploading the Avatar to VRChat.

[past pewter]

mhh

[undone pewter]

does anyone know if it would be possible to have a quest avatar with an animated material?

[past pewter]

I am already using the cubed shaders, poiyomi, and even Xiexes! Yet every avatar in game just looks like this. Any shaders to cure my illness?

(the page on the avatar didn't have any recommended Shaders btw)

[hardy dagger]

standard

[past pewter]

I fixed it, somewhat

avatar is fine, but my vrchat is broke

I can't see shaders kinda. Like most shaders are grey white planes and my avatar isn't working for me. Everyone else sees it fine

[toxic egret]

1. Are you using a modded client? :/
2. What video card do you have, if it is very old you might need a newer one.

[past pewter]

I have a good GPU and CPU and no it isn't modded. I found the issue. kind of

I got someone to clone it, and if I turned off custom animations it showed the colors

so im messing with the animations rn

I fixed it 😄

[indigo hedge]

Is there any way to import settings from a really old version of the poiyomi shader to a new version? I bought an avatar that had a really old version of the shader and I can't upload the avatar because of it. I switched it with the latest version but the fur becomes all flat and looks nothing like how it originally should

[sly schooner]

Maybe a really dumb question, but does the shading tab of Blender make a shader via the nodes or is it just a very capable shader on its own?
If it's the former, could you make a shader with a node editor that exactly replicates a look you've attained in Blender? If it's the former, then I guess I need something as close to that as I can get a hold of.

[brittle plinth]

Blender’s shaders function on a fundamentally different rendering method than anything Unity supports, so while you could create a shader for Unity that looks similar to one made in Blender, you can’t just copy over the nodes. Blender also supports certain physical properties on a different level (metalness in Blender is a hacky implementation built on top of its specular calculations, while Unity’s HLSL shaders are able to do real metalness), which can produce different results.

[sly schooner]

I appreciate the response. That's good to know, going forward. I'll do some more digging to see if I can figure out something that simulates my look. 👍

[velvet sorrel]

Metalness is a hack based on specular calculations everywhere, not exclusive to Blender. That's how it works in Unity too.

[chilly pasture]

Out of curiosity. would it be possible to create a shader to create a artificial Horizon? (Airplane hud) mostly just the angle lines and the center horizon. and if so would anyone have any resources that could help me learn how to do so?..

[past pewter]

Yep quite easy actually @chilly pasture

I personally cant make screenspace shaders but you can use any screenspace and just get the green parts of that image as a transparent png

[chilly pasture]

The idea is to use it as a overlay on the camera hud for the upgraded version of my drone.. but my shader knowledge is limited to say the least.

[past pewter]

I think i should have something for that

But rn im bout to sleep so

[sly schooner]

If it's a pain in-shader, there's always constraints in tandem with the screenspace.

Oh wait. That isn't how screenspace works.

You'd have to use something else.

Assuming you'd want it to actually function like an artificial horizon anyway.

I guess error hud could kinda replicate it if you mess with the positioning.

[chilly pasture]

The point of me wanting to do it on a shader is because it's supposed to be an overlay ontop of a render texture. (to keep material and renderer costs down as much as possible) as it's for a public prefab

[sly schooner]

Something like Error's hud shader is probably a good place to start. The axis in the corner was rotating based on the world, iirc.

I guess it might take some dissecting though to purpose it for your usage.

[chilly pasture]

true..

and i believe there's also a compass on there.. that might be a good start too. as that's basically what i need just in the wrong axis :P

[tired token]

There's this which is from those amazing plane flying maps (please go check them out!)
https://github.com/Sacchan-VRC/SaccFlightAndVehicles/blob/master/Shaders/HUD.shader
https://github.com/Sacchan-VRC/SaccFlightAndVehicles/blob/master/Shaders/HUDText.shader

[chilly pasture]

Yet again saving my ass huh scruffy! altho more direct this time :P! Thank you so much!

[tired token]

I think you'd probably want to go download the entire package for the material, texture and mesh setup (Should be a Release package on the repo page)

[lusty fern]

Anyone have a good toon shader that isn't Poyomi's?

[lusty fern]

I for the life of me can't find one that has a good rim light. Rim light doesn't even work on half of them and the one it does (Poiyomi's) you can't change the direction of

[lusty fern]

nevermind I figured it out

[patent sundial]

anyone know why when I export an avatar from blender to unity the texture for emissions is gone?

[muted osprey]

The easy and obvious workaround here is to just import said texture into unity with the rest of the model. Is there a reason you can't do that?

[patent sundial]

No there isnt I was just wondering if there was a specific reason since im trying to optimize the model as much as possible and I assumed exporting with that file on the avatar would be the most efficent optimization

[still trench]

having a problem where it seems that some shader features are missing on avatars when uploaded, like shadows and highlights, cannot figure out if it is on my end or vrchat, happening with multiple shaders. anybody have any idea?

[velvet sorrel]

Nope, the textures on the model's materials don't make any difference because Unity makes its own materials. When you set a model to use different materials the originals don't count towards the final build.

[green crane]

wha... but you paid for this

[elfin basalt]

Is there a way that I could possibly implement world particles like these: https://medium.com/@rafalwilinski/tutorial-particle-sea-in-unity3d-70ff1350fa9e#.a2obqtys6. Working on a show set and I'm wondering if an effect like this could be created for the background.

[toxic egret]

What's wrong with the tutorial?

[tired token]

Looks like the tutorial uses scripts, which isn't the best for VRC.

[elfin basalt]

Does anyone have a shader that can be used to create a particle sea?

[hasty raven]

can anyone please describe to me what kind of material this is?

it looks like that stuff you've seen where there's a plastic surface

like poly urethane polished and stuff like that

[unborn imp]

@elfin basalt like this?

[elfin basalt]

OMG YES

[unborn imp]

same color

[elfin basalt]

Did you do that with shader graph @unborn imp?

[unborn imp]

no poiyomi

[elfin basalt]

Can I message you @unborn imp ?

Or do you want to share it here so people can see?

[unborn imp]

you can message me 😄

[elfin basalt]

Hummmmmm poyomi failed to compile... odd

[unborn imp]

oh

[unborn imp]

[lusty fern]

Is there a way to stop the outline on Poiyomi's toon shader from getting bigger when you get far away from it

[ivory zinc]

Did you make sure to attach all map files? Metallic, height, roughness, normal etc?

[robust thistle]

hi all

i try to work in unity with some post-processing-shader but i have this error
Assets\Shaders\Vision PostProcessing Shader\Visual.cs(6,14): error CS0101: The namespace '<global namespace>' already contains a definition for 'Visual'

what i need to do so that kind of shader will be compatible with unity and vrchat ?
any idea ?

[still trench]

yea, they were all attached, since then I've actually confirmed with a few other people that some shaders just seem to be partially broken in vrchat after the latest patch

[toxic egret]

this seems to be a c# script. Remember that vrchat doesn't allow custom c# scripts.

[robust thistle]

@toxic egret
yes it is a c# script
so how in the world i can import real working night vision shader to work on my avatar
i try to find on google but there is as you know only github version shaders etc etc
but i did not find any shader like that compatible with unity and vrchat sdk
plust it will be wary nice if any exist that they have a nice tutorial
so people will know how to make that possible in vrchat

[ivory zinc]

https://kevind-portfolio.blogspot.com/2018/09/unityshader-night-vision.html Maybe this will help? I just googled VRChat+unity and night vision

[toxic egret]

if custom post-processing requires c#, then you can't do that. You need a different way of doing it.

This might have the same problem

[ivory zinc]

Yeah, I noticed

What do you call the effects that trolls use again? The ones that can make your camera shake and whatnot

[toxic egret]

oh god those are the worst I hate them

[ivory zinc]

Yeah, but what are they called? My idea was for him to make an effect of his own, and play it locally so he could get the nightvision effect

Like, make the radius only around the player camera or something

Then a gesture trigger and loop

[robust thistle]

@toxic egret
same
that's why i have safety for everything and enable only their voices
but friend section everything is enabled

@toxic egret
i only need those because i have vision problem and the fact that i cant't set my gpu or tv every time i vent in dark and big world
with that and with scanner vision i will be able to locate them

[wild oxide]

you cant use custom post processing scripts

and you certainly cant use post processing on avatars

what you can do is look for a shader that emulates that effect with a grab pass

https://ahzkwid.booth.pm/items/1657867

for example

[robust thistle]

@wild oxide
thank you

i will try to make it work in vrchat on my avatar

[solar rune]

Does any1 know some water shader with good distortion? not clean water or smth like that @_@

[wary junco]

My fallback shader is correctly being generated as Toon Cutout, but I've noticed it also seems to be z-writing and blocking transparencies behind it. What have I done wrong?

[shy vault]

It seems I accidentally made my world crash almost every Quest user.. :/ using this shader

Shader "_Shaders/Rainbow" {
    Properties {
        _Luminosity ("Luminosity", Range(0.0, 1.0)) = 0.5
        _Spread ("Spread", Range(0.5, 10.0)) = 3.8
        _Speed ("Speed", Range(-10.0, 10.0)) = 2.4
        _TimeOffset ("TimeOffset", Range(0.0, 6.28318531)) = 0.0
    }
    SubShader {
        Pass {
CGPROGRAM

#pragma vertex vert
#pragma fragment frag
#include "UnityCG.cginc"
#include "Shared/ShaderTools.cginc"

fixed _Luminosity;
half _Spread;
half _Speed;
half _TimeOffset;

struct vertexInput {
    float4 vertex : POSITION;
    float4 texcoord0 : TEXCOORD0;
};

struct fragmentInput {
    float4 position : SV_POSITION;
    float4 texcoord0 : TEXCOORD0;
    fixed3 localPosition : TEXCOORD1;
};

fragmentInput vert(vertexInput i) {
    fragmentInput o;
    o.position = UnityObjectToClipPos(i.vertex);
    o.texcoord0 = i.texcoord0;
    o.localPosition = i.vertex.xyz; + fixed3(0.5, 0.5, 0.5);
    return o;
}

fixed4 frag(fragmentInput i) : SV_TARGET {
    fixed2 lPos = i.localPosition / _Spread;
    half time = _Time.y * _Speed / _Spread;
    half timeWithOffset = time + _TimeOffset;
    fixed sine = sin(timeWithOffset);
    fixed cosine = cos(timeWithOffset);
    fixed hue = (lPos.x * sine + lPos.y * cosine) / 2.0;
    hue -= time;
    while (hue < 0.0) hue += 1.0;
    while (hue > 1.0) hue -= 1.0;
    fixed4 hsl = fixed4(hue, 1, _Luminosity, 1.0);
    return HSLtoRGB(hsl);
}

ENDCG
        }
    } 
    FallBack "Diffuse"
}

Any idea what part of the shader could be crashing them ?

[toxic egret]

did you make this?

[shy vault]

no

I have almost no idea how to make shaders

I understand the basics.. but this is out of my league

😄

Works perfectly fine and no crashing/lagging for PC but Quest just hates it

[toxic egret]

hmm

I thought you could only use the whitelisted shaders on quest

maybe that is the problem?

nevermind that is only for avatars

[shy vault]

yea only for avatars.. on world you can use almost any

What could be the issue though ?

[wild oxide]

maybe just take the HSLtoRGB function out of shadertools.cginc since it doesn't seem like you're using anything else in there

[shy vault]

Like take it out and put it inside of this ?

This is what Shadertools.cginc looks like

inline fixed4 RGBtoHSL(fixed4 rgb) {
    fixed4 hsl = fixed4(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, rgb.w);
    
    fixed vMin = min(min(rgb.x, rgb.y), rgb.z);
    fixed vMax = max(max(rgb.x, rgb.y), rgb.z);
    fixed vDelta = vMax - vMin;
    
    hsl.z = (vMax + vMin) / 2.0;
    
    if (vDelta == 0.0) {
        hsl.x = hsl.y = 0.0;
    }
    else {
        if (hsl.z < 0.5) hsl.y = vDelta / (vMax + vMin);
        else hsl.y = vDelta / (2.0 - vMax - vMin);
        
        float rDelta = (((vMax - rgb.x) / 6.0) + (vDelta / 2.0)) / vDelta;
        float gDelta = (((vMax - rgb.y) / 6.0) + (vDelta / 2.0)) / vDelta;
        float bDelta = (((vMax - rgb.z) / 6.0) + (vDelta / 2.0)) / vDelta;
        
        if (rgb.x == vMax) hsl.x = bDelta - gDelta;
        else if (rgb.y == vMax) hsl.x = (1.0 / 3.0) + rDelta - bDelta;
        else if (rgb.z == vMax) hsl.x = (2.0 / 3.0) + gDelta - rDelta;
        
        if (hsl.x < 0.0) hsl.x += 1.0;
        if (hsl.x > 1.0) hsl.x -= 1.0;
    }
    
    return hsl;
}

inline fixed hueToRGB(float v1, float v2, float vH) {
    if (vH < 0.0) vH+= 1.0;
    if (vH > 1.0) vH -= 1.0;
    if ((6.0 * vH) < 1.0) return (v1 + (v2 - v1) * 6.0 * vH);
    if ((2.0 * vH) < 1.0) return (v2);
    if ((3.0 * vH) < 2.0) return (v1 + (v2 - v1) * ((2.0 / 3.0) - vH) * 6.0);
    return v1;
}

inline fixed4 HSLtoRGB(fixed4 hsl) {
    fixed4 rgb = fixed4(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, hsl.w);
    
    if (hsl.y == 0) {
        rgb.xyz = hsl.zzz;
    }
    else {
        float v1;
        float v2;
        
        if (hsl.z < 0.5) v2 = hsl.z * (1 + hsl.y);
        else v2 = (hsl.z + hsl.y) - (hsl.y * hsl.z);
        
        v1 = 2.0 * hsl.z - v2;
        
        rgb.x = hueToRGB(v1, v2, hsl.x + (1.0 / 3.0));
        rgb.y = hueToRGB(v1, v2, hsl.x);
        rgb.z = hueToRGB(v1, v2, hsl.x - (1.0 / 3.0));
    }
    
    return rgb;
}

[wild oxide]

maybe not

I'm still rather inexperienced with shaders myself so I can't really say much, but maybe its a bit too expensive for quest to handle?

does it actually crash the quest?

[shy vault]

Yea.. but not immediately

Like.. 1-5 minutes after the shader is enabled

I was thinking if something like float overflow or something could be happening here or something but that doesn't seem the case

[wild oxide]

maybe change them to halfs

[shy vault]

Soo to higher precision ?

[wild oxide]

lower precision

[shy vault]

wait which ones ?

the floats or the fixeds ?

[wild oxide]

oh you already have fixed

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SL-DataTypesAndPrecision.html

but idk, i'm still inexperienced with shaders

[shy vault]

I can try changing the floats to halfs..

[wild oxide]

I do know that whats its doing is a bit expensive though

at least as far as I can tell when reading up on how to implement my own hue change in shaders

[shy vault]

Well after changing all the floats to halfs it still seems to work.. and still looks good 😄 now the crash test

[steep swift]

@shy vault why is there a while loop there? Maybe fixed variables can't go above 1.0? Try changing all the fixed to float or something.

Actually replace these two while loop lines with

hue = frac(hue);

[toxic egret]

yeah you seem to have a lot of ifs and whiles, that is bad

[steep swift]

I wonder if the code was like subtracting for each second you are in the world or something one by one in a loop

If can be ok if they are the same across adjacent pixels but still not usually good looking. But yea watch out for while or for loops

You can literally crash the hardware if you have a while loop that never ends

[shy vault]

Yea I was thinking about that if something like that isn't happening there.. and Quest just can't handle it or something ?..

[steep swift]

Maybe it's nan or the precision is low enough that subtracting 1 returns the same float (this can happen)

[shy vault]

hm 🤔

[steep swift]

That's why use frac which is faster and literally does the same thing but without the precision issue

[shy vault]

ah I mean as I said I know the very very very basics about shaders.. 😄 and this is not my shader I couldn't make anything this complex with shaders..

Also what about this ?

inline fixed hueToRGB(half v1, half v2, half vH) {
    if (vH < 0.0) vH+= 1.0;
    if (vH > 1.0) vH -= 1.0;
    if ((6.0 * vH) < 1.0) return (v1 + (v2 - v1) * 6.0 * vH);
    if ((2.0 * vH) < 1.0) return (v2);
    if ((3.0 * vH) < 2.0) return (v1 + (v2 - v1) * ((2.0 / 3.0) - vH) * 6.0);
    return v1;
}

There seems to be TOO many ifs..

Could it be perhaps somehow shortened ?

[quasi lion]

Do Poiyomi's Toon Shaders not work properly with SDK3?

The UI of it doesn't load properly.

[light urchin]

Well you didn't really screenshot the errors to see what the actual problem is

But most likely your version is too old delete and import the latest

https://github.com/poiyomi/PoiyomiToonShader/releases

[quasi lion]

This is the latest version

[light urchin]

Now that I see the actual error your pumkin tools are too old you need to update those or you possibly updated the project from sdk2 without removing the scripting define

[quasi lion]

Poiyomi shouldn't be effected by Pumkin Tools, right?

[light urchin]

Anything will be affected if you have a scripting error stopping things from compiling

[quasi lion]

Alright, I'll delete it and see if that fixes it.

[stiff berry]

there's some better written versions of these functions here http://www.chilliant.com/rgb2hsv.html

i haven't looked at the generated assembly but all those ifs are probably less than optimal

[dawn vapor]

Heya, where can I use a roughness and height map in Poiyomi's shader? Can't find anything for roughness and the only thing for height is in Parallax which doesn't look right (unless I'm using it wrong). If they aren't available then np 🙂

[dawn vapor]

Figured out the roughness map but still not sure about height

[storm ice]

Anyone know a good shader to replicate cloud movement

[past pewter]

Probably a noob question but I’m gonna ask it anyways

Is there a way to get reflective shader onto materials?

Like for example if I wanted something to look like steel and shiny could I do that?

And would it render in VRC?

[shy vault]

Thanks @stiff berry gonna check that out and try to figure out how to implement that into that.. 😄

    Shader "_Shaders/Rainbow" {
        Properties {
        }
        SubShader {
            Pass {
    CGPROGRAM

    #pragma vertex vert
    #pragma fragment frag
    #include "UnityCG.cginc"
    #include "Shared/ShaderTools.cginc"



    struct vertexInput {
        half4 vertex : POSITION;
        half4 texcoord0 : TEXCOORD0;
    };

    struct fragmentInput {
        half4 position : SV_POSITION;
        half4 texcoord0 : TEXCOORD0;
        fixed3 localPosition : TEXCOORD1;
    };

    fragmentInput vert(vertexInput i) {
        fragmentInput o;
        o.position = UnityObjectToClipPos(i.vertex);
        o.texcoord0 = i.texcoord0;
        o.localPosition = i.vertex.xyz; + fixed3(0.5, 0.5, 0.5);
        return o;
    }

    fixed4 frag(fragmentInput i) : SV_TARGET {
        fixed2 lPos = i.localPosition / 8;
        half time = _Time.y * 0.2;
        fixed sine = sin(time);
        fixed cosine = cos(time);
        fixed hue = (lPos.x * sine + lPos.y * cosine) / 2.0;
        hue -= time;
        hue = frac(hue);
        return HUEtoRGB(hue);
    }

    ENDCG
            }
        } 
        FallBack "Diffuse"
    }

This is what I have now

inline fixed4 HUEtoRGB(in float H)
{
    float R = abs(H * 6 - 3) - 1;
    float G = 2 - abs(H * 6 - 2);
    float B = 2 - abs(H * 6 - 4);
    return saturate(float4(R,G,B, 0));
}

And this

[storm ice]

Are there any free alternatives like shaderforge for a graphical interface for making shaders?

[toxic egret]

Not in unity 2018 at least

Unity 2019 and onwards does have one

[brisk gull]

There's a fork of shaderforge for unity 2018

https://github.com/jackisgames/ShaderForge

[round fox]

yeah, ever heard of the specular / metallic properties of a shader/material? to get the effect i usually use the default unity shaders, xexie’s toon shader 2.0 or poiyomi’s toon shader.

[past pewter]

Does it render inside VRChat?

[round fox]

yes

[past pewter]

Like the shine?

Does it look like actual steel/metal?

To anything shiny at all

Or*

[raw kettle]

Why is the standard shader with cutout option being blocked by the safety settings but not the Pyomi one that is waaaaaaaay more expensive?

weren't only custom shaders supposed to be blocked?

[muted osprey]

Shaders aren't "blocked" by safety settings, they fallback to a particular shader type. Not sure what you mean otherwise

[velvet sorrel]

@past pewter Unity's Standard shader has realistic metallic shading, and my shaders support it too

[past pewter]

Is it just in unity?

Or in vrchat aswell?

[raw kettle]

In VRChat I achieved the same effect both with the standard shader and paiyomi, but when someone deactivate shaders in safety settings on Paiyomi they can see the cutout perfectly, on the standard one is paper because the cutout is not being applied

[vast timber]

any idea why recently shaders are displayed wrong in the game? It looks normal in preview and worked before but recently turned into mush

no matter what world its still mush/blurry

and avatars look greyish including hair and clothing

especially white colors are displayed as gray as if there was a shadow covering the whole model (?)

[gritty folio]

Which shader are you using?

The recent update changed a bit

[vast timber]

uh applies to all my avatars but unity toon shader

i tried with shader that came with avatar but also tried the latest ver

no change

[gritty folio]

Are you sure it's the same world? It could just be something with the world?

[vast timber]

tried all the popular worlds

1 out of 50 displayed it correctly

but the only one it worked had some mad effects anyway and for some reason it looked normal there

[gritty folio]

Huh well maybe someone knows what's up

[vast timber]

and this was fine a couple months ago or so but recently all avatars look like they're covered in shadows

even outfits that had bright white color are now dark grey

obv shader problem but its new i think

I hope it's just temporary

[gritty folio]

I'm sure they'll be some bugs

[vast timber]

this bug has been going on for maybe 2-3weeks since I noticed it?

I'm used to bugs in vrc but having all avatars bugged for this long is new to me lol

[gritty folio]

I'm having a bug since the last update with Xiexes toon shader where in worlds with realtime lights in them, I seem to flicker brightness when I move my head, so there could be more

[vast timber]

ah yeah I think I've seen that before.

Let's just hope for the best

i tried re uploading avatars and updating shaders but the problem seems to be in-game

on avatar preview it displays as normal though

it looks gray and messed up after changing avatar

[hushed rock]

so uh, for unity is there a trick for black hair and alpha textures? lol

model I'm porting uses alphas, and making it incredible difficult getting the sides and back of his hair black

https://i.imgur.com/c31LNan.jpeg

[dawn vapor]

Heya, with Poiyomi's shader, is there a way to make the tint mix of outlines apply to hue shifts? I'm on v6.0

[median sable]

With this could I have like a shader that looks like ultra instinct and still have the ones on it already

[hexed stone]

That's how its supposed to show in-game, you'd have to completely change settings or shaders for it to look different to what the creator wanted. It should also depend on what the world is

Most worlds use baked lighting, and so thats how only rarely it shows up with the real-time lighting

[vast timber]

It wasn't like this before but I'll try mess with shader settings

[wild oxide]

there has been some reports of certain shaders not having their shadows/shading rendering correctly since the update that had the graphics optimization changes iirc

[hasty raven]

okay I need some help here pls

does anyone have a subsurface scattering shader that has a roughness map?

[past pewter]

hey has anbody a good glas shader

[tired token]

Standard

[past pewter]

thats bit reflective tho

[tired token]

But it's one the best representations of glass

[velvet sorrel]

https://s-ilent.booth.pm/items/2336731

[past pewter]

Anyone can help me get a shader that can do this a bit better and not so pixelated

[muted osprey]

That's less dependent on the shader and more so on the compression of your texture. That being said, if you're treating it like a decal, poiyomi should handle that just fine

[past pewter]

I used poiyomi and it’s the same do I need special Settings ?

[muted osprey]

That's less dependent on the shader and more so on the compression of your texture

[past pewter]

But it looks fine on my texture itself

[brisk gull]

What is the resolution of your texture?

[tired token]

Use Poiyomi's decal option

[velvet sorrel]

Or my shader's decal option

[gritty folio]

might want to explain to them what that is lol

[hasty raven]

anybody got a good hair shader?

[tired token]

Silent has a dedicated shader for hair.
https://gitlab.com/s-ilent/hair-with-anisotropy

[hasty raven]

thanks

[hasty raven]

also, I've been noticing with Mochie's latest shader that the Alpha channel doesn't scroll when I turn it on

https://gyazo.com/3549d7c8c3d398e9de27e7ac68881dcd

here's a good example

the base color moves but the alpha does not

if there's any temporary shaders that can make the alpha move with the diffuse that'd be great

[hasty raven]

oh wait, it turns out all you need to do is plug it into an alpha channel in photoshop nvm

https://gyazo.com/8cdadcdc2c832e3cb97c1950dbe2bede

[hasty raven]

Just updated it

https://gyazo.com/5fc46690d38526bda59c666ec4f8fb20

[past pewter]

Go into the actual texture in unity and change its resolution, compression, or its filtering. It will increase file size tho

[light pond]

Using Arktoon Fade, this happens with outlines and an alpha mask

[rough imp]

@split girder is it possible to stamp an image decal in substance painter?

[split girder]

yeah absolutely, the only requirement is for that image to fit in a power of 2 resolution image

[gaunt spoke]

Is there any way to provide arbitrary input to a shader in-game?

[gritty gale]

So does anyone possibly have an overlay shader for particles? im basically trying to make an effect where i could turn someone to stone with a particle effect

*have or know of

[steep swift]

This is probably caused by the problem known as transparency sorting, specifically the front hairs (and maybe more) being semi-transparent.
A few common approaches to solve this are:

• (a) Use an Opaque shader and forego transparency.
• (b) The standard approach for solving this is to split the mesh into multiple materials: most of the mesh including the head and the side hair would be opaque, and only the front hair would be transparent;
• (c) Use a "depth pre-pass" shader, which prevents two layers of transparency from drawing on top of each other. This will cause the whole model to become transparent behind the front hair. So you might still want to split hair into its own material
• (d) use a Dithering or AlphaToCoverage shading mode. (AlphaToCoverage is a kind of per-sample dither for users with MSAA on: VRLow and VRHigh quality but not DesktopLow)
• (e) Similar to (b), but make all the hair transparent, but ensure polygons are rendered in the correct order (polygons are drawn in order, so you want all the polygons to have a meaningful order, like inside hairs rendered first, then outside hairs). This is a bit hard to do in some modeling programs and a bit error prone, and not possible for more complicated meshes.

A note about depth prepass: some transparent shaders simply enable Z-Write, and combined with good polygon ordering, is enough to deal with this.

Some popular toon shaders for VRChat do either depth prepass or ZWrite by default. This might be why you notice the issue when switching to ArkToon

Also, a note about perfromance: contrary to what the VRChat performance ranks may suggest, performance can improve by using more materials, because you can render more of the model opaque, taking better advantage of the depth buffer / Z buffer, and reducing the amount of blending your GPU has to do

[steep swift]

Checkout Neitri's shaders here, which use the "Camera Depth Texture" https://github.com/netri/Neitri-Unity-Shaders/
You will probably have to adapt some of the shaders to do what you need, but there is a lot of good reference code for depth based effects

[light pond]

Half of that message went way over my head, I ran into a similar issue, but only in certain lighting conditions when using Poiyomi Transparent Outline

I'll try the things you mentioned, but I think I'll end up with a 4th material just for the bangs

[past pewter]

Does anyone have an equation shader that I can use

I can't find onee

[grim plinth]

Wdym by equation shader?

[past pewter]

It's a moving shader with equations on it

XD

Can't find one I like

[grim plinth]

So just put an equation texture on an animated shader

[past pewter]

But as a dumb person, who

[grim plinth]

get animated shader

drag equation image into slot

you are now slightly more competent

[past pewter]

Ah, interesting

[grim plinth]

Just do some basic unity tutorials, it'll help you a lot

[velvet sorrel]

Try my shader and use Cutout instead of Fade. Ingame it'll use Alpha-to-Coverage which makes it transparent without causing the sorting to break!
https://s-ilent.booth.pm/items/1894974

[past pewter]

any body know of a shader that supports 4 diffuse maps

[hasty raven]

can't say that I do

at least not yet

[brittle plinth]

What do you need four diffuse maps for?

[hasty raven]

he probably needs it for testing out stuff. remember how blender 2.91 has a lot more of the creative aspect? if Blender has it, can't it be replicated in Unity?

[brittle plinth]

Technically yes, but that doesn’t explain the need for four diffuse maps. Really what matters is what they’re being used for. A shader could use a primary and three secondaries that get blended using vertex color as a factor, or it could be a terrain shader that uses each texture for one direction the geometry can face. In Blender, I frequently work with a material that takes four diffuse maps, but only because it’s really six materials packed into one node group.

[hasty raven]

sounds like a lot

I do accuracy on a shader from a friend of mine that is close to accurate but then unity itself gets kinda......eh when it comes to showing materials that were originally made in 3DS Max

[brittle plinth]

Shaders are probably one of the hardest things to port, since there are so many different ways to make them and each program produces slightly different results that don’t always carry over cleanly.

[hasty raven]

it's probably the shading style that might be off but I think it's fine

[hasty raven]

exactly

[vale hemlock]

Sometimes, shaders show up differently in VRChat even when you test them in Unity. World lighting and making a shader that works in VR is a thing!

[lofty dragon]

It's probably been asked a million times, but how do those blind avatars work? I want to mess around with the effect by using it in a world.

[velvet sorrel]

https://twitter.com/Silent0264/status/1357939293252055042

Silent (@Silent0264)

New shader!

Crispy Foliage!

https://t.co/O7RjK2tPYR
https://t.co/7y3gc1y6QT

Plants that blow in the wind! It uses alpha to coverage for smooth edges! Simple and easy, but with lots of features!

#unity #vrchat

Twitter · Feb 6, 2021, 6:28 AM

[hasty raven]

Huh, your shaders improve quite drastically

[hasty raven]

Meanwhile I make stuff like this

Oh wait wrong channel

[hasty raven]

I need a shader that has an effect of subsurface scattering like the one seen here

Got anything?

[chilly vine]

Any good places to find shaders? Like the ones that are ether xray, wireframe overlays, or whatever. I seem to have a very hard time finding such things.

[crystal stone]

I once was able to animate multiple materials on a model jus by shift clicking all the ones used and editing the shaders from there but now it no longer works am i insane?

[carmine tapir]

Yes

[river igloo]

hi people, I'm having some trouble understanding the shader fallback system

how can I set up a custom shader so that it just doesn't render at all when the fallback is in place?

I thought naming my shader "cutout" or "transparent" (or "fade") in it's name and setting a _Color with (0, 0, 0, 0) and an empty _MainTex should do the trick?

But it displays fully opaque, in _Color, but no transparency

(in the fallback, the shader itself works fine, just a simple multiplicative color blending for now)

[toxic egret]

I don't think you can do that

when an user disables shaders, vrchat manually replaces your custom shaders with unity standard shaders

[river igloo]

yes, and according to this page: https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/shader-fallback-system I can make it select a transparency-enabled shader

"If the shader is not internally matched, The name of the shader (not the filename, but as provided in the top line of the shader source) is used to match some identifying features and replace with a fallback shader of similar type:"

but that's somehow not working...

poiyomi manages to fall back to a standard toon shader for example...

[toxic egret]

did you name it "transparent" with no caps?

and also is that the shader name and not the file name

[river igloo]

Shader "Custom/Glasses Transparent"

tried multiple variants

[toxic egret]

the name is "Glasses Transparent", have you tried only "Transparent"

[river igloo]

"These names can fall anywhere within the full string of the shader name."

but I think I tried Glasses/Transparent too

[toxic egret]

it is true that it says that, but you never know, could be a bug

[river igloo]

yeah, I've come to expect bugs since I started VRChat content making ^^

[spark pasture]

Probably a weird question, but does anyone know if it's possible to tile a texture around an origin point rather than next to each other? I may be going about this the wrong way but I'm trying to have all these lines come from the vertice in the middle and expand out

[velvet sorrel]

What about using polar coordinates?

[snow plank]

Do anyone know if Custom Render Textures are supported? Like, they work but they seem to freeze randomly and don't update anymore

[hasty raven]

I don't think so

unity isn't that creative when it comes to materials if you have limited experience in the field. I for one am trying to replicate subsurface scattering as seen in Star Wars Battlefront 2 where they have PBR mats and so far, the materials that I got need some work

[tired token]

They work but are stupidly finicky

[snow plank]

I got one working, but as soon as I change world they freeze

[tired token]

yup

[snow plank]

and I guess there are no known solution...

[hasty raven]

just use photoshop. it's what I use if I were to divide different channels

[snow plank]

that's... not what I'm trying to do

[hasty raven]

what are you trying to do then?

[snow plank]

using a custom render texture

it's a texture that contains a material with double buffering support

I can use that to make a shader that can read itself

and use it to code an actual game in a shader

[hasty raven]

oh, I see what you mean

[snow plank]

I use it to store variables, like actual ram

[hasty raven]

I see

[near flax]

@river igloo if you're still having troubles, https://pastebin.com/92gwQqCM

[pure raven]

Hey folks 💙, I made an invisibility shader for Quest. It works great for objects, but doesn’t hide UI & avatar layers. Wondering if anyone could help fix this? I’d pay 20$. I’ve tried VRCTraders, but the shader-commissions thread is pretty dead. DM me if you’re interested and I’ll drop you my shader code. It’s for a portal world.

[river igloo]

thanks so much!

"at the end of all of this shit:" - finally a guide written with a level of hatred I can relate to

[brittle plinth]

Is there a list of supported shader targets for VRC somewhere?

[sharp pike]

Wow, when falling back to standard, does it really copy the metallic and glossiness floats without copying the metallic map too? Immensely dumb if true.

Good to know I'm going to look like a mirror ball to people if I remove "toon" from my shader name

[past pewter]

If anyone has an antique reel shader I could use, I'd love you for life

I can get it right trying to make one

[dreamy flume]

Trying to get a fur shader to work as a carpet In my world. But it bugs out in game like when i look at it in an angle, pull out my camera, or open the ui everything just goofs and disappears. How can I fix that?

[near flax]

yup, or at least it did when that was written. maybe it changed since then, but i really doubt it :p

[dreamy quail]

Hey, could anyone send me a video of someone explaining how to make shaders in 2018.4.20 using shader graphs? I know how to make shaders in 2018.1.1 but I cant seem to find out how to enable the shader graph in 2018.4.20

[crystal solar]

Shader graph only works with URP/HDRP, neither of which are suppoerted by VRChat, there are plugins for unity to achieve the same result and Unity’s shader graph, but I have no clue what they’re called

[astral plover]

Shader forge is one, but not sure if it's still supported. I've used it before and it's a pretty good (free) shader graph editor

@dreamy quail

[short glacier]

Any shader experts know a good solve for glass/frosted glass?

^CG

[tired token]

could use something expensive like a grabpass blur with face/normal distortion

or you could go the cheaper but more inaccurate route of using a reflection probe and it's mipmaps to do the blur with face/normal distortion

[supple harness]

generally this effect is too expensive for games

[short glacier]

Oh yeah it totally is but that doesnt ever mean there could be some creative workarounds to fake it

[supple harness]

well you could probably find some way to blur and invert the simple reflection cubes

[velvet sorrel]

https://s-ilent.booth.pm/items/2336731

Try my glass!

[past pewter]

i gona see a tutorial how to install

thax

[verbal hamlet]

i cant my pc could NEVER

[hasty raven]

sounds kinda sus

Among Us jokes buddy deal with it

[shut robin]

I need a black hole shader and a font shader

[rain sable]

@velvet sorrel interesting

[past pewter]

where can i get a decent quest compat skybox

[hardy dagger]

the default vrc/mobile/skybox or whatever it is called should work

[past pewter]

do you know what its called?

[hardy dagger]

it should be labeled skybox under : vrchat/mobile/skybox

idk exactly but that should be close enough

[unborn sonnet]

im making an avatar and when i use one of the quest supported shaders, the textures around the eyes and eyebrows mess up. I can provide things if needed. Its a VRoid Model and I'm using Unity

[turbid eagle]

Quest doesnt do transparency. Vroid has I think 4 transparent textures on the eye. Delete the eyebrow, eyeline, sclaras and eyeshadow. Or if quest compatability isn’t your focus literally any other cutout shader 🙂

[fringe perch]

^ one workaround is to literally copy paste the eyebrow and eyelash texture onto the main head texture lol

doesn't look as good but it works

and then delete the parts of the mesh that was used for the original eyebrow and eyelash textures

[twin lintel]

Need help with this https://designnewb.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/halo-multipurpose-maps-shader/

Literally cant understand whats supposed to be done

[paper yoke]

what are the best shaders to use for avatars

[twin lintel]

oh damn someone named literally, but does he understand whats supposed to be done 🤔

[hardy dagger]

i like only understand 15% of what you need to know about shaders

[twin lintel]

Basically, I need to find out how in gods green earth I'm supposed to use whats written there to make the materials work as they are shown

this is what I have and somehow its supposed to end up like the example

[hardy dagger]

drag and drop thos images in the box thats labeled "main

or "albedo"

[twin lintel]

well you see thats where im already lost because where do I do this

in the standard shader?

[hardy dagger]

yes, in the standard shader, unless it uses somethin weird

[twin lintel]

Well that won't work would it because its a special type of shader halo uses to make the model look like that and that link is supposed to lead to a shader that helps with that but I dont know how that works either

[hardy dagger]

that shader probs wont work with vrchat tho

[twin lintel]

Well I don't even know how to make it a proper shader because it gives me an error if I just paste the code into a shader file

[light urchin]

The only problem with the shader seems to be that wordpress converted all " to ” and - to – so it errors out

[twin lintel]

so it made all the " just sideways what

I have never gone into shaders as much as I am now

So if I redo all the things to " itll work?

[light urchin]

And the -

[twin lintel]

you mean the _ to - ?

[light urchin]

No, – to -

[twin lintel]

I pasted it on a txt file so

[light urchin]

Just use the search and replace to convert the characters

[twin lintel]

oh the - is only at the bottom

I see I see

[light urchin]

Can't see much reason why it wouldn't display correctly in vr but I don't really do shaders so test it out

[twin lintel]

Yeah probably wont work for quest users but thats what they get anyway

yep I got this as a result now

[twin lintel]

It isnt quite working right

[light urchin]

Maybe it needs a proper lighting setup not sure 🤷

[twin lintel]

the visor also doesnt turn yellow

I think it might be missing some components but I dont know how to figure that out

Is there anyone that can actually make it a proper shader because a big idiot like me isnt gonna find out whats wrong

[lofty dragon]

I botched together a Halo shader a while back that might work for you, doesn't support detail maps at the moment though,

[twin lintel]

the main issue I need fixed is the visor

if that works ill give it a try

[lofty dragon]

Mind sending me the model?

[twin lintel]

this is how far I got it so far

[lofty dragon]

Mine is customised and doesn't have a visor.

So what's up with the visor? looks okay there

[twin lintel]

oh its a direct game rip that I basically left unchanged

[lofty dragon]

I don't see an issue there

[twin lintel]

and this is the issue

[lofty dragon]

ohhhh, the shadow overlay

[twin lintel]

the shadow there is just not present

I guess its fine as is but its a little detail

[lofty dragon]

models resource I assume?

[twin lintel]

yep

Imported to blender to check textures, exported right away without touching it

[lofty dragon]

Where's the texture for the shadow?

I can't see it on the sheet

[twin lintel]

its on the helmet

[hasty raven]

Yeah

[mighty pulsar]

I'm new here. do you guys create your own shaders?

[fervent scaffold]

No 🥴

[mighty pulsar]

eye, i wanna learn. who's willing to take me on as their kohai?

[past pewter]

Hi everyone, is there away to to record and load shader variants collections on VRchat

[lethal rock]

Not that I’m aware of

[lethal rock]

There are a few resources out there that you can check out. I’d recommend this section on catlike coding if you really want to learn shaders in unity: https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/rendering/

[past pewter]

I use ASE; but this stuff looks really useful. Thank you.👍

[lethal rock]

I’ve been meaning to check that out but since I am more comfortable using code it hasn’t been a priority. The catlike coding stuff still has applications in nodes though, hope you find it helpful o/

[past pewter]

I've been going through the stuff since you posted the link; can't thank you enough.👍

[mighty pulsar]

omg, thank you!

[ocean ocean]

Has anyone had any luck setting up shaders for the Final Fantasy VII Remake models with their Hair? I can't get any of the characters hair to look right. Any suggestions?

[twin lintel]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/337679895721148419/810295942272122892/VRChat_1920x1080_2021-02-14_00-46-02.114.png?width=1214&height=683

why u do dis

what

[twin lintel]

@lofty dragon Hey did your shader have this issue

[lofty dragon]

What am I looking at?

oh, the completely black model

no, it doesn't

[twin lintel]

Is there a way to even fix this

[lofty dragon]

I can't think of a simple answer really

mainly because I don't know how your shader works

[twin lintel]

Can I use yours then because I dont know how in gods green earth it works either

I just found a script and copied it lmao

aight thanks I shall see if this works better

And I assume it will

[lofty dragon]

It's pretty self-explanatory

[twin lintel]

I assume its the first texture, second texture and the cubemap right

[lofty dragon]

Main texture in the top slot

cubemap in the middle

[twin lintel]

my unity is updatin rn so im waiting for a bit to actually put it in

[lofty dragon]

then the white texture in the bottom slot

[twin lintel]

this one or the actual suit?

[lofty dragon]

the other one

[twin lintel]

Oh no option to change color

[lofty dragon]

yeah, you'll have to edit the texture

[twin lintel]

oh thats where mine works better it just does it for me

[lofty dragon]

Yeah, I made mine specifically for the models and stuff I had

[twin lintel]

Ahhh

[lofty dragon]

Didn't need colour stuff because I already had the coloured textures

[twin lintel]

Odd I only have the white one

where did you find colored versions

[lofty dragon]

I made them

[twin lintel]

ehhh how does that work then

I have a red texture from my own shader

[lofty dragon]

I just opened the texture up

and edited it

[twin lintel]

doesnt that change the entire thing though

[lofty dragon]

I only selected the white parts

[twin lintel]

hmm

[lofty dragon]

polygonal select in photoshop

[twin lintel]

oh thats a lot of work but I shall try

[twin lintel]

Ok thanks a lot for the shader, bit messy to work with but it ended up still looking almost as good as the original

now to upload

[obsidian stag]

anyone happen to have a shader that allows me to put something inside my model and have it still be visible from the outside? I remember having one a long time ago, and it would render it sort of like a shadow. Having a really hard time finding it again lol

[mighty pulsar]

this pack should have what you're looking for. it's what I use

[tired token]

That pack is cursed, full of old crap and some of it is edited

[mighty pulsar]

is there a better alternative? so i'm not crippin around in a cursed shader?

[tired token]

Depends on what shaders you use, for example, if you use Poiyomi's or Mochie's they have their respective Discord released/GitHub releases

[mighty pulsar]

I am a collector of shaders. i think it's fascinating to legally watch paint melt off the walls.

[tired token]

Everyone has their own place for their stuff

as another example Doppel has their own discord

[mighty pulsar]

i don't know the names of the big dogs of the community who pump out content, so it's difficult to track down (like doppler. prob the only name I know)

[dawn atlas]

Poiyomi?

[static frigate]

anyone know where i can get the Cubed paradox shader download?

[velvet sorrel]

It's not supported anymore

[static frigate]

what should i do since an avatar i got uses them

[velvet sorrel]

Grab mine, it does everything that Cubed's used to!
https://gitlab.com/s-ilent/SCSS

[static frigate]

alright ill try it out

i just need that Flat Lit Toon

does it work for that?

[mighty pulsar]

it should. i'd give it a try. you can also get flatlit from xiexes, mochis, poi, and... one other on the tip of my tongue

[past pewter]

Do you know how i can modifi the shaders ?

[mighty pulsar]

I have a question... Can I ask here "is there a pre existing shaders that mimics the look of "sad Satan" or do I need to seek a commission somehow?"?

[hardy dagger]

@past pewter you need to duplicate that material and put the new one into the model

@mighty pulsar whats a “sad satan” exactly?

[mighty pulsar]

a cringy meme cursed horror game. that's the best I can explain it. I guess they have a "vandalized" version of it that's NSFW

[hardy dagger]

i wouldnt know of anything like that sorty

[mighty pulsar]

example of what I'm looking for. a shader to replicate this, or someone who can

[tired token]

mmm yes, those are pixels

[mighty pulsar]

I just like the ominous feeling it gives me. think of it as ASMR for my eyes

[lethal estuary]

anyone have any idea how to add sparkle effects onto clothing with shader? Unitychan if possible?

[mighty pulsar]

poi shader. enable glitter

[lethal estuary]

ty!

[mighty pulsar]

https://tenor.com/view/thumbs-up-double-thumbs-up-like-agreed-yup-gif-11663223

[true hound]

Does anyone know where i could find more information about the rendertexture loop/feedback loop method some shaders use? I already found some japanese documents but sadly i couldn't really understand everything in it

[static frigate]

anyone know a good shader that doesnt have a cartoony look? need it for a fallout Avi

[mighty pulsar]

xiexes, cubed shader

[static frigate]

you got a link ? @mighty pulsar

[past dirge]

Does anyone have the shader "Doppels shaders" ??

[mighty pulsar]

no. 😦 i can suggest a place, but it's bannable to say that name

[mighty pulsar]

i think you have to spend money on Dopple's patreon

[velvet sorrel]

https://s-ilent.booth.pm/items/2606348

Try my Subsurface Scattering shader!

It's made for realistic-ish characters

[true hound]

Is there a way to unshrink the head of my mesh? I wanna use a vertex displacement shader but the head is gone when i look at my mesh.

[mighty pulsar]

Does Dopple have a discord server?

[past dirge]

Aww that sucks.

[dusk urchin]

Ok i'm slightly struggling here

my ambient occlusion map is making everything go a milky pale colour

what i think is happening is that the ao works a different way than blender interprets it

[mossy yoke]

is it possible to make unity-surfaceshader-flipbook start at frame 0 when the surface is enabled? it seems to be playing constantly even when disabled and when i enable it it starts somewhere in the middle

[past pewter]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/807155217946771486/812427997478912060/VRChat_1920x1080_2021-02-19_21-58-08.101.png does someone know why some avatars look like this?

[white dagger]

Hoi

[quiet radish]

Does anyone know if the Poiyomi shader can accept sprite sheets for the flipbook effect?

I could split the sprite sheet into numerous textures (which Poiyomi can accept), but that would ruin my uv unwrap

[mighty pulsar]

have you seen this yet? https://youtu.be/uRji0o11zkU

[quiet radish]

I saw something about that render when I was searching, but I thought it was outdated. I just now figured out I can take the image, duplicate it for each frame, and offset it. Then make it an animation and export it as a gif.

[mighty pulsar]

I know who go turn to now ❤️

[dusk urchin]

it looks like it's reading a normal map as the main texture?

[brisk gull]

Ok, well, that's a render issue. Which can happen due to more reasons than one. Usually it's due to drivers though from what I've seen before, have you updated them recently? And which graphics card are you using?

[tired token]

It's an AMD driver issue

[harsh violet]

What kind of shader do you guys thing would go well with this?

[river igloo]

Pretty proud of this: Almost entirely self-written raymarching shader on an avatar. Synced, works in desktop, VR and mirrors, performance rank is still "Good" and nobody has complained about lag yet - plus really fun to play around with in VR!

https://streamable.com/rgpjy1

[static frigate]

anyone got good shaders for clone avatars?

[tired token]

Do you have any previous shader work? I'd like to see more if you have any.

[little cape]

https://www.patreon.com/dopestuff link can be found here

[vale nebula]

Does anyone happen to know if it's possible to get viseme/blendshape info through shaders?

[toxic egret]

not without custom scripts

well some stuf you could do through animations

[vale nebula]

I'll have to look into it then I guess

[sharp pike]

I've seen https://github.com/AkaiMage/VRC-Collision-Shader that has you encode a blendshape into a texture in order for the shader to be able to activate the blendshape.

[vale nebula]

Ah right, don't believe that's what I'd want but it's cool nonetheless. ^^

[river igloo]

nope, this was pretty much my first foray into VRChat shaders, I did some experiments in the world you can see in the background, but nothing as complex as this

[worn moss]

this might be more of an avatars question but does anyone know if there is a shader that reacts to the users speech? like speaking causes the face of a robot to glow type thing is what im looking for

[outer sphinx]

What shader allows an image to rotate to be fully visible regardless of the camera rotation? Kind of like a static particle

I finally figured it's called billboarding

[tired token]

With Avatars 3.0 you can have viseme animations that change the emission colour/strength.
Depends on what shader you use and how your materials/meshes are set up

[shy vault]

Any idea if this could somehow be made Quest compatible ?

[past pewter]

lol

[shy vault]

xD

My guess is not but I still asked

Its quite complex shader i'd say

[potent talon]

anyone know where i can get a cell shader?

[harsh violet]

So far the only compatible shaders are listed right here https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/quest-content-limitations and this will likely be the case for a very long time I highly doubt any custom shader that’s not mobile will not be available for quest which honestly sucks the default toon shaders can sometimes screw up a look of an avatar, but quest peeps don’t care too much as long as they can view the model it doesn’t necessarily matter.

[hardy dagger]

you can make shaders for quest, theyre just rare

[amber mulch]

Where do I download the Quest Shaders? Do I need to get the latest SDK?

[velvet sorrel]

Yeah

[dapper rivet]

I'm trying to replicate Lolathon's stream camera (his avatar in the bottom right of his screen). I figured out that its a shader that shows the camera, but I'm having a hard time trying to piece it together. I want a sphere around the player's head, invisible, and you can see normally in VR, but on desktop it shows a Unity camera of the avatar in the front. Does anyone have any idea how i can do this? I've been scrolling through forums from 2018 VRC communities on this camera system stuff but it's all outdated and not very clear

I figured out to use a screen stencil shader to get the view of a camera, i have that working but it's not showing up when I load into VRC with a test build of the avatar, the player camera can't see the unity camera output

[shy vault]

I meant for world and by compatible I mean so it doesn't crash Quest or make quest see through 1 eye

But I solved it already.. I found pretty good replacement texture

[harsh violet]

Ahh Icic

[jovial urchin]

Is there a mirror shader that will cull by distance? So people or environment 50 miles away don’t render but instead up to a fixed distance?

Using a pickup object mirror so I can’t use occlusion portals on a static plane toggling when mirror is turned on

[sharp pike]

I don't know what he's using now, but it used to be (like 2 and a half years ago) a shader made by someone going by the name of Nave.

The avatar has a camera on it with a render texture (and I believe the camera's culling mask is set to the same as what mirrors that only show your own avatar use, but I don't know how to do this (or maybe you can create your own layers and put the avatar on that layer and then only show that layer?)).

The shader draws the rendertexture of the camera to screenspace in the bottom right of the screen. I think his shader uses a geometry shader to discard the box/sphere around the avatar (inverted box/sphere so it's always be visible) and draw a quad manually, but maybe you could also use a quad mesh attached to the avatar's face and move it in a vertex shader (think moving the quad directly from object space to screen space).

At the size Lola has the texture on screen, it's so far out of view in VR that you wouldn't actually be able see it even if the shader isn't designed to detect when you're in VR and cancelling the rendering when that's the case so it only shows on the desktop view. There are additionally methods now for detecting if it's the stream camera preview or a picture being taken by the camera in which it could also be disabled.

Additional work was done at some point to make the edges around the avatar look better since the transparent edges around opaque objects in the rendertexture would end up very aliased, I don't know how this was done or if there have been changes to cameras since the unity version back then that make them look better.

Side note that cameras on avatars only show up to friends and additionally, a camera that is by default on won't show to others, it has to be off and then turned on for it to show up, so you can avoid other people seeing the camera output pretty easily. We additionally have isLocal in avatar 3.0 now so the box/sphere around the avatar need only be there for you locally now.

[dapper rivet]

Thank you so much for the reply! I'll learn how to make shaders by dissecting a few and then try this!

[sharp pike]

When I made my own shader similar to this, for the screenspace part, I fixed and repurposed the one I found here https://forum.unity.com/threads/correct-way-of-converting-to-from-screenspace-screen-width-screen-height-position-in-a-shader.404913/ I actually wanted the camera so I could see myself rather than showing myself to others on a stream, the in-game camera was added as a feature not too long after that and I stopped working on what I was doing since the in-game camera did everything I was after.

[dapper rivet]

I like the in game camera but the lens can get distracting if I'm recording something and acting, but still want that camera effect, so thank you so much!

[sharp pike]

I ended up putting my camera view in world space in front of my eyes instead of screenspace because I couldn't at the time figure out how to compensate for the different positions of both eyes when working out the position of the quad in screenspace.

[jovial urchin]

There is also jace cam that you can try, not really a shader thing just a render texture on a local plane with the plane parented to head in a location so it’s at the corner of the viewpoint

[dapper rivet]

mmm makes sense, i tried out Jace Cam and I'll probably try to replicate it or just reference it when making my own version

[past pewter]

can someone help me get a gif on my model

[potent talon]

Finally found the right shader! Toon shader looks best on this!

[harsh violet]

What toon shader did you use, Poiyomi?

[potent talon]

No, I used the one on the unity store

I’ll prob end up using poiyomi sometime

[harsh violet]

Is it literally called toon shader on the unity store?

[potent talon]

I think so, I looked up toon shader and the profile came up with all the VRChat robot guys with the same shading

[umbral sigil]

Is there any way to disable backface culling on the default Quest shaders?

Especially the Toon Lit shader

[uneven loom]

nope that is not doable

[umbral sigil]

Fuck

[astral plover]

only way to achieve this is to duplicate the faces that you want to be double sided (in blender) and then flip the normals on the duplicate.

this will make it so that there are actually two sides to it

[umbral sigil]

Hmmst

[unborn imp]

how to fix the green in the vrchat shader

[uneven loom]

remove vertex colors?

[fossil haven]

Is is possible to get a similar look to the built in "Autodesk Interactive" shader using the Poiyomi shader?

[astral plover]

There are ways to achieve a realistic lighting (PBR) setup in poiyomi's yes. I'd suggest joining poiyomi's discord server for more assistance/information

[harsh violet]

ight I need some advice on shaders

I haven't done any lighting yet before I set that up I wanted to know if there was a shader I could use that could work well with this currently it is set to "standard" and I don't like the way it looks

I wanna get something like this

any suggestions?

[velvet sorrel]

Standard but set up better

[hardy dagger]

add emmissives and post processing. and light rays if you have any

[fossil haven]

Thanks, I'll try that

[shy vault]

Guys any idea why this shader on Quest after some time just stops.. ?

    Shader "_Shaders/Rainbow" {
        Properties {
        }
        SubShader {
            Pass {
    CGPROGRAM

    #pragma vertex vert
    #pragma fragment frag
    #include "UnityCG.cginc"
    #include "Shared/ShaderTools.cginc"



    struct vertexInput {
        half4 vertex : POSITION;
        half4 texcoord0 : TEXCOORD0;
    };

    struct fragmentInput {
        half4 position : SV_POSITION;
        half4 texcoord0 : TEXCOORD0;
        fixed3 localPosition : TEXCOORD1;
    };

    fragmentInput vert(vertexInput i) {
        fragmentInput o;
        o.position = UnityObjectToClipPos(i.vertex);
        o.texcoord0 = i.texcoord0;
        o.localPosition = i.vertex.xyz; + fixed3(0.5, 0.5, 0.5);
        return o;
    }

    fixed4 frag(fragmentInput i) : SV_TARGET {
        fixed2 lPos = i.localPosition / 8;
        half time = _Time.y * 0.2;
        fixed sine = sin(time);
        fixed cosine = cos(time);
        fixed hue = (lPos.x * sine + lPos.y * cosine) / 2.0;
        hue -= time;
        hue = frac(hue);
        return HUEtoRGB(hue);
    }

    ENDCG
            }
        } 
        FallBack "Diffuse"
    }

Was thinking is there perhaps somewhere an number overflow that Quest can't handle ?

[hardy dagger]

can you describe what this shader is supposed to do

[shy vault]

This

This is what its supposed to do and it does.. ON PC

On quest it does this for only limited number of time

couple minutes

Then it stops on RED

Whole red

Any idea why.. ?

Its extremely optimized but something is def missing to make sure it runs forever 😄

[hardy dagger]

this is beyond my shader knowledge. usually if it works as expected on PC, then it should follow in android. but ive also seen shaders behave horribly on pc and beautifly on android

[shy vault]

🤔

[shy vault]

My guess is that on PC the number overflows and starts from 0 when it does and on quest it just stops at the highest and doesn't reset to 0 but which and where 🤔

That's my guess

[jovial urchin]

Shader looks ok, who knows. Can always run an animation that after a few minutes does a quick material swap back and forth for one frame on the quest upload

[toxic egret]

how long is your "while" before it stops

but my guess is that due to using half and fixed, your values end up being insignificant (or overflown)

which of course doesn't happen on pc

most likely the fixed

pretty sure that's it

and of course you could change to not use fixed tho that means it will run way slower in your quest

[shy vault]

So you think if i change the one fixed to half or something it might work 🤔

[toxic egret]

yes

that'll be 50 dollars please

j/k

[shy vault]

😄

[harsh violet]

Does anyone know a good shader for overwatch pls tell me

[potent talon]

i uploaded an avatar now all its textures are gone and its all pink, there was shaders on it too :/

anyone know a good fix?

[velvet sorrel]

Instead of sin() and cos() of time, try _SinTime and _CosTime

[shut robin]

What shaders can duplicate geometry?

[finite dune]

Hey, I'm trying to make a custom talking animation on my avatar where the head lights up with a green ring kinda like what discord does, I'm currently thinking I'm going to need to do this with a shader. My character's head is a sphere, I've got a larger green sphere around it for the light up effect, is there a shader that would allow me to only render the outside bit that isn't obscuring the actual head? (or a better way of doing this, I'm not an experienced modeller)

This is the desired result, though I've just moved the green sphere behind the head to show what I mean here

[rustic umbra]

can't you just make green sphere wider on sides than?

[finite dune]

No, because I want it to be visible no matter what angle you're looking at it from

My backup option is just make a cylinder and do what you say there, but ideally I'd like it to look like that from any angle you view the head at

(like this)

[rustic umbra]

i only know how to make that in blender not in unity

[sharp pike]

You could do manually what most outline shaders do with the geometry part of the shader, add a duplicate of the head (or just a sphere in this case) with inverted normals around the head and backface culling on?

[finite dune]

Ah, I've tried scaling it to -1 which would achieve the same effect I assume but I didn't know about backface culling

How do I turn that on?

[sharp pike]

Depends what shader you use in unity, some have a specific setting (that you can't change, e.g. standard shader) though most main shaders you'll use for vrc will have a "cull" option

[finite dune]

Ah, at the moment I'm just using the stock shaders. Is there a way to do it in blender?

[rustic umbra]

in blender you just flip normals to inside

and it will do

same effect

[sharp pike]

It's a shader thing, and standard shader has backface culling on

[rustic umbra]

and you don't need to use shaders if you use blender

[finite dune]

Ah I see, does it not show up in Blender then? I remember seeing that effect in unity a while back when I had some of the normals inverted by accident

I've already got the normals inverted but it doesn't show up in the viewport

[sharp pike]

Blender has places where you can enable backface culling, try here in the Solid viewport shading mode

Or in the individual material settings

[finite dune]

Ah, awesome the material settings one worked

Couldn't see the setting on the viewport shading settings panel for some reason

[sharp pike]

It changes depending on which viewport shading mode you currently have selected, the four different circles

Wireframe, Solid, Material Preview and Rendered

[finite dune]

Ah I see, on solid mode sorry you did say that

[knotty rivet]

Does anyone know any "toon" shaders that can use normal/metallic maps. I basically just need unity standard but with the outline feature of toon shaders.

But the few shaders I've tried don't work with normal maps

[tired token]

a lot of the common toon shaders can use normal maps, just depends on the settings you use

[knotty rivet]

I tried poiyomi and arktoon.

While they have areas for them, they don't seem to display

Should look like this https://i.imgur.com/TecOPku.png

arktoon

Poiyomi's even worse looking

[past pewter]

Try playng in poiyomi settings it haves some metalic effects options

Try adding a matcap to it

[knotty rivet]

If there's just unity standard + outline that exists, that would probably be best

[tired token]

There's the realistic option in light & shadow section of Poiyomi's shader, you'll also want to enable metallic and specular refection

[knotty rivet]

Actually looking at it, not sure how I even add an outline to that

[sharp pike]

Silent's Cel Shading shader has by far given me the best results for parity with Standard when it comes to the metallic map, put your metallic map from your standard shader into the "Specular Map" texture, tick "Use as Metalness" and "Use Energy Conservation" and you should be good to go. Such parity may also be a downside though, since you don't get any of the vrc 'fixes' for terribly lit worlds and worlds that are entirely baked lights. You would want to mess with the rest of the setting for getting your toon look.

[sharp pike]

If you want just the indirect specular part (reflections/metallic reflections) without the direct specular highlights from lights, then XSToon works well (it's very close, but not quite the same as standard shader, I believe it doesn't take into account reflections being stronger at glancing angles). You can still have direct specular highlights, it's just in its own texture in the shader and I couldn't work out an easy way to convert my metallic map to its specular map. (my XSToon version is pretty old, so it's possible some of this has changed)

[sharp narwhal]

Can anyone remind me what the name of the shader effect is to be able to only view an object through the shader? Like having a 3D character inside of a card that can only be viewed through the card?

[sharp pike]

Stencil https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SL-Stencil.html

[sharp narwhal]

Thank you very much

[past pewter]

does anyone know how to do dirty & blurry in silent's fake glass like the sample picture. i don't know how. Is normal map require for it ? if it require I can't find any of that ;_;

[velvet sorrel]

You don't need a normal map, but you do need to use the Surface Mask

Example is using this texture: https://cc0textures.com/view?id=SurfaceImperfections008

[past pewter]

oh thank you so much 😄

[velvet sorrel]

No problem!

[lofty dragon]

Hey Silent, would you happen to know if it's possible to make a shader that updates at less than the framerate?

It's hard to explain, but basically I saw an avatar that moved at a low framerate and I want to do something similar.

[velvet sorrel]

Well, things on the shader can update at any rate you want - they just happen after the bones and stuff are applied

That effect is done with dynamic bone update limits

[lofty dragon]

I saw an avatar a couple days ago that did it with no dynamic bones, which is why I'm asking

[tired token]

You can use Constraints to alter visual framerate

[velvet sorrel]

Oh yeah, we have constraints now!

[lofty dragon]

The whole joke of the avatar is that it was "optimised" to the point of being 4 polygons, and there was a shader applied that made it jittery

It was completely untextured and unlit, and the avatar stats were basically 0 across the board

[velvet sorrel]

So you could have an armature with the avatar model on it that tracks the real armature, with an animation shifting the constraint weights back and forth

[tired token]

Jittery? Sounds like rounding of the vertices

[lofty dragon]

Jittery was the wrong word

It didn't move based on your view angle

[lofty dragon]

I assume that would be better on performance than dynamic bones

and how would you change the rate that it shifts?

[tired token]

You change the on/off state in the animation

if you want it to update faster, do the on/off transition quicker/more often

[lofty dragon]

Are there any guides for constraints I could look into? I don't really know how to use constraints let alone animate two of them.

[velvet sorrel]

I don't know of any for a general use case. I recommend using the Unity manual and playing around with them.

[muted comet]

https://youtu.be/sqWs6ScSanw

Can anyone tell me why when I use this shader on an object it shows up black and where I can’t apply it to a glass material I have in my scene, I don’t know how to make it see through?

You can find the shader for free on his patreon

[past pewter]

anyone has a good water shader

[shy vault]

Uh..

Both is the same shader.. Right is what is should look like left is what it really really should not look like

Any idea what could be broken ?

[fair night]

I don't suppose anyone knows if there's a quest compatible shader that works like VRChat/Panosphere?

@shy vault at a glance, I'd guess it's just the UV's

[shy vault]

🤔

Can try to play with UVs

[safe badger]

So... since Nier is getting a remake, I'm trying to make a Shadowlord avatar, but I'm stuck at some of the effects/shaders that the Shadowlord model uses, which is shown in the video, can someone please help me "identify" the effects/shaders used on his body when he appears, so I can search for something similar ?

|| https://youtu.be/Xb_MKbUAt6Y?t=35 || (Caution for Nier spoilers)

[velvet sorrel]

I believe there's several layers of small, simple effects working together here, which would probably end up being one or two shaders

For example, there's the surface of the body, which has ripples and waves, which affect the fraying at the edges, which are likely a seperate mask on top of the body. Then there's the yellow pulses, which are also warped, and they could be using the secondary UV channel to control the pulses so they are along the surface of the model instead of in world space. Then there's the red overlay, which I think is just the same thing.

[safe badger]

Yeah the red marks/overlay are a separate mesh altogether

I got that one figured out

[rustic lodge]

Muzzle flash on Blender 😎

[static frigate]

anyone know how to stop this shiny metalic look in blender?

[velvet sorrel]

Increase roughness, decrease specular