shaders

[past pewter]

Does anyone know of any water shaders that are specifically designed for the User to be UNDER the water at all times? I would love to create an effect where looking up there is the whatever you would call that effect of the sun's rays dissipating into the ocean. It would also be nice if someone knew of a shader that also could replicate that effect onto the floor.

also shown in this image

I don't believe anyone had made requests for a ocean shader that was meant for view UNDER or IN the water, rather overtop

[leaden tartan]

Red_Sim's water shader supports Caustics and looks really nice under the water. Lots of customization. It's on his Patreon.

Can easily make it look like an ocean as well, with wave and foam settings.

[past pewter]

yesss amazin thanks u

ill have to buy that I hope its not too much

oh wow 5 bucks for the full version of it perfect

[glacial abyss]

oh, no snell's window 😦

[leaden tartan]

Yea... If only. Would make it perfect. Your brain kinda goes "something is off" without that, but I haven't really seen that in other water shaders.

[glacial abyss]

It's kinda crazy how you can get like 3 out of any 10 features and your brain goes "ok, looks kinda like water"

[past pewter]

Oh hey its the ball pit guy

[past pewter]

You spelled Online wrong

I know

people rarely notice thats the joke

I like to observe holes in human observation sometimes

That's one of them

👽

[raw perch]

Hi, I am looking for a shader that is able to achieve a 3D sphere/planet effect, similar to the linked video timestamp. It should give this parallax effect on a 2D plane.

https://youtu.be/UuWB_1h6gCM?t=119

[bold iris]

have u tried experiementing with the poiyomi shader ? its deff 10/10 my favourite shader of all time to nearly anything, the thing with this shader is also that u get such as rim lighting with hue shifts, u can make emissions that are scrolling or coming from inwards kinda etc(which i though might could be used for what u're looking for)

i even used poiyomi on some of my springjoints to create fancy emissions inside

[raw perch]

Ye, Poiyomi is a great and advanced shader, but I'm not sure that it has any effects for parallax fake-3D effects I'm trying to achieve there. Thank you anyways ^^

[bold iris]

like u could make a 3D Circle like a '' O '' then drag in a cube inside of it to fill the space u wanted 'animated' or how to say and then make the cube transparent, and layer it with different masks of ur wanting and then use emissions to make the effect

make sure the cube inside is transparent and no colliders ofcourse

poiyomi has 2 emissions which could create 2 layers of the paralax but from there u would be limitated / have to duplicate and make more to proceed the process

[raw perch]

Yeah, but the thing is I don't really have a sphere object, just a plane (the black hole in the ground like in the video), and I want this kinda fake-3D effect like you are looking at an actual sphere

[bold iris]

ProBuilder + ProGrids

its free and gives u so much more possibilities in form of.. like creating objects

it can also make sphere's, even hollow spheres

[raw perch]

I know how to make spheres etc. It's just I need to achieve this on a plane, that's it

[bold iris]

yeah i see, i prob cant help much i barely know what parallax fake-3D effects are tbh xD but ye i hope u find a way tho ^^

[little cape]

Maybe this? https://s-ilent.booth.pm/items/2947697

[sharp pike]

Are you not able to use stencils for this? That's what's usually used when you want to be able to see a particular scene, but only when looking through a 'window'. In this case I have a 'window' just barely above the ground. The checkered plane is just standard shader, the 'window' is .poiyomi/Extras/StencilInvis and the space background and 'planet' are using poiyomi toon (poiyomi toon has all the same options as StencilInvis, StencilInvis is just a cut-down shader that doesn't render anything, but does give you easy control of writing stencil values). The 'window' sets the stencil value where it renders, in this case, it's a cylinder where the top is just barely above ground, and then the insides render ignoring depth testing, but with requiring the stencil value set by the 'window'. Since they are all separate objects in this case, I made sure they rendered in the correct order by increasing the render queue of their materials (planet>background>window>Geometry). I think if they're part of the same mesh, material slots with materials in the same render queue will render in the order of the slots, though I'm not sure, since I barely ever use stencils.

[raw perch]

That looks really promising, thank you!

[raw perch]

Thank you, I'll have a look

[mental crane]

I've got this shader I downloaded, and for some reason it doesn't cast shadows, despite the model being set to cast shadows. Is there perhaps a line of code I can add to the .shader file to fix this? Tried looking it up and couldn't find a good solution.

[mental crane]

Figured it out lol. Just had to change the fallback to "Diffuse" and add #include "AutoLight.cginc"

[tired token]

Best to use Standard since Diffuse isn't in the client and won't fallback.

[mental crane]

Ah, thank you! Seems to work the same as previously mentioned.

[tired token]

Yup

[fierce sorrel]

I asked a question in #avatar-help , but I'll post it here too. My friend and I are making the same model with the same settings, same shader (alloy), and same version of unity+sdk.. yet his model is getting completely different results. There should be transparency here but there isn't for some reason. He has this issue with other shaders too, not just alloy. Is there any reason for this? We suspect it's a Unity issue.

This is mine for reference. There's a lighting difference between our projects, but lighting shouldn't be causing this since my models look fine in default Unity lighting. His issue also shows up when the model is uploaded to VRChat, mine is fine.

He is using transparency as am I.

Please @ me if you know the reason for this :0

[thorn moon]

Does anyone know what the shader the "blind" avatars some people have is called? The one that makes everything black, save for what's in the radius of the spheres placed on the hands.

[leaden tartan]

Mochi's blind shader. It's available from his Patreon Tier 2 sub and DL through Discord. https://streamable.com/jupeb

https://www.patreon.com/mochieshaders

[daring lichen]

hey, is there a way to only render something on the desktop view? I know there is unity_StereoEyeIndex for left and right eye, but what about flat-screen?

[glacial abyss]

https://github.com/cnlohr/shadertrixx#scruffy-ruffles-utilitiy-functions

(Under Scruffy Ruffles Utility Functions)

Note: this hasn't been tested in the newest version of VRC.

[daring lichen]

This should render to the flatscreen display, without appearing on either eyes, right?

[glacial abyss]

You could add a if( isVR() ) discard; in your fragment shader or if supported by your chosen SM, vertex shader.

[daring lichen]

I'm trying to display a hud on the desktop display, while the game is running in vr. doing if( isVR() ) discard; removes the hud entirely.

[sharp pike]

If you're not using the stream camera, then I guess the desktop view is still considered to be VR rendering. Perhaps you could use the ratio between _ScreenParams.x and _ScreenParams.y since the VR screen resolution is much wider than it is tall due to having both eyes next to each other? Or if you know ahead of time what the exact size of your VRC window will be, then you could check for exact _ScreenParams values? Though I wouldn't be surprised if there's a better solution that makes use of specific matrix values or a #define you can check.

I still find it weird that VRC (maybe Unity in general?) has a separate rendering for the desktop view instead of what other game engines apparently do, which is copying across part of the pre-warp VR display rendering. I struggle to find any info on how the desktop window display works in Unity. There's tons of misinformation everywhere saying there isn't a separate rendering for the desktop window, but there clearly is for VRC at least.

[glacial abyss]

I find it strange... if( isVR() ) should still return false when displaying on desktop. Maybe that's why scruffy uses this for IsDesktop.

bool isDesktop() {
    return !isVR() && abs(UNITY_MATRIX_V[0].y) < 0.0000005;
}

[worn moss]

anyone know why this default unity shader for particles doesnt show up in mirrors and if there is a fix for it?

[ancient wigeon]

Looking for a shader that turns a material to look like a bunch of mini circles that look like the mesh.

[leaden tartan]

It's culling the backface. The mirror sees the backface and doesn't render. Use a shader that supports disabling culling.

[worn moss]

okay thank you, do you happen to know of any that allow for the Additive with the Overlay so the whites of the texture remain white? every other shader just kinda paints the whole texture whatever color

[worn moss]

For posterity, I managed to figure out why that shader in particular wasnt showing up. I unchecked Soft Particles and that made it show up in mirrors 🤷‍♂️

[vague pawn]

Is there any possible way that result of "Neitri/Depth Mirror" which has inactivated object is shown for the late joiners?

The result of "Neitri/Depth Mirror" is kind of rebuilt geometry based on render texture. so I think new gameobject should be created based on that shader. Is there any possible way of that?

[safe geyser]

Would any shader wizard be interested in helping me figure out a fix for silent's anisotropic hair shader? I'm poking at it myself but more experienced help would be appreciated

The issue is that it reflects oddly if there is no directional light present

It functions as expected with any directional light, even if the light is black

WIth maximum specular to help illustrate the problem, here's a scene with one directional light, slight yellow tint (the specular reflection accurately represents the direction the light is coming from)

Same scene with zero directional lights

Same scene with one directional light set to black

I'd like B to behave like C, instead of as if the viewer was a shiny white sun

[daring lichen]

is there any way to have a shader bypass all world postprocessing?

[safe geyser]

I am also interested in the answer to this question

Although "ignore" would probably be the more accurate term

[safe geyser]

Located the problem. In all fairness it's properly commented (thanks silent) I just didn't see it right away

[past pewter]

Not sure if this would fall under shaders but what would be the ways to create the effect of rain and rainclouds for Unity worlds? I would prefer the ways that look nicer even if they are heavier as the world is intended for very few users

also if anyone happens to know a good resource for 'realisitc' rain/thunder ambient noises that would be great

[storm ice]

Does anyone happen to have a good HUD shader, maybe Errors shader? I tried the links on Google but they're dead

[safe geyser]

If the old forum link is no longer available I don't know of an official source

@pine ibex If you're alive - is it OK to distribute your HUD shader here?

[storm ice]

I actually managed to get the original download link via Waybackmachine archives

[storm ferry]

Question! How do you exactly download Errors shader? Found the form on way back but I don't see a download link anywhere

[limber vine]

Is this supposed to be physically based?

or is it stylized

[safe geyser]

Those are actual screenshots from unity

Gregory: Glad you got it, I have it too, I just don't know if it's OK to distribute

[storm ice]

The download link is the thing that looks like an ad, the box that says download. It is actually the download lol

This thing

[storm ferry]

Oh thank you!! I was confused at first as it looked... Well, like that xD

[frozen plank]

how can I make the intersection edge shining?

[lament wasp]

hi, im trying to use a shader using ShaderForge but it seems like it only works with HDR off on the camera or only with directional lights.
Is there anyone who knows how to fix this?

[storm ferry]

anyone know of just a face camera that follows your avis head to see facial expressions?

[agile totem]

Theres hairshaders? Oo

[safe geyser]

https://gitlab.com/s-ilent/hair-with-anisotropy
I believe poyomi toon has a similar module too

[little cape]

https://atelierorca.booth.pm/items/2089030

[storm ferry]

Thank you!!

I found one that seemingly works, though my head is chopped off so I'm not sure how to fix that lol

[little cape]

Might be showing PlayerLocal layer instead of MirrorReflection layer. PlayerLocal layer shows your avatar as you see it from 1st person view, with head bone scaled to zero so that it doesn't obscure your vision.
MirrorReflection layer is entire avatar as you see it in mirror.

[worn moss]

https://gyazo.com/ba373ddc8b8ea427b79ee80150dc3df5 Does anyone know if its possible to achieve this effect with a single material? This is using the Poiyomi Inside/Outside Stencil materials but I am trying to get one of these spheres to work as a particle but you're only allowed 1 material slot for a mesh particle

[brisk gull]

flipped normal sphere

should work

[worn moss]

doesnt work, because you'll still see the inside material that was my first thought but nah, needs to use stenciling

actually I might have found a way around the particle limiting a single material

[brisk gull]

Yea, you need a custom shader for the particles for the 1 material one. Since culling is off for the normal ones, I believe.

Forgot I had a shader that had culling modes on my avatar that I was thinking of

[worn moss]

okay I found a work around, instead of a single particle with one mesh and 2 materials, I did 2 particles that each spawn a sphere, one with the outside material that stencils out the slightly smaller one inside with the other material 🙂

awesome. ive been trying to figure out how to do a basic hit detection system for avatar guns forever. Still gotta deal with VRC's horrid server syncing but its better than nothing

https://gyazo.com/2b4b263d46c5869725be9da4bb6358c5

[storm ferry]

That's what I assumed too! Though I deleted PlayerLocal from the layers and set to UI/Mirror on the camera, though it's still stuck lol

[astral plover]

Make sure it's the correct layer number rather than the name. Unity doesn't use names to determine layers, it uses the index number.

I don't remember off the top of my head which layer number mirror reflection is but they are correct in that that is the layer you need to make the camera see.

[little cape]

It's layer 18

[safe geyser]

Asovrix, any idea which layer someone might have put world terrain in?

I will eventually set some time aside to test one by one but it would help if someone just knew

[storm ice]

Is that supposed to be a halo bubbleshield? Also, is that on an avatar because that looks like the Among Us map.

[safe geyser]

Terrain was in layer 25, could be a world specific thing

[safe geyser]

Anyone experienced with setting up audiolink on silent's cel shader?

[narrow juniper]

question: does VRChat support using _CameraDepthTexture in shaders?

having some trouble getting it to work

[undone hound]

to enable this the easiest way you will need to add a directional light
here is a reference on how to make it happen with the smallest performance hit:

source for the image: https://github.com/netri/Neitri-Unity-Shaders#types

[narrow juniper]

I am a bit confused, I am trying to get a depth texture for the view
something like this:

this is also for world design, not avatars

I am writing my own shader also, not using Neitri

but if I understand this correctly, it it just doesnt render it cus no realtime light is enabled?

yeah, this did seem to do something xD

perfect, thank yoU!

[undone hound]

you are welcome!

[tribal flame]

I need a refractive glass shader [Unity 2019].

[narrow juniper]

ok, I am completely lost with this, so, I am rendering a "dot" of lasers where they intersect with meshes to make them look more realistic, and I use the DepthBuffer (as mentioned previously) to achieve this
for some reason, my ground shader does not seem to end up in depth buffer within VRChat but other meshes (with a different shader) do, and I am completely lost
this works 100% fine within unity

looks like this in unity, all seems to be fine

looks like this in vrchat, the bench is fine, but no dots (so no depth buffer) on the ground

[narrow juniper]

some digging has shown that using the unity standard shader, or many other shaders including for instance Poiyomi will work just fine, but as soon as I try to make a new basic Standard Surface shader, it does not show up in depth buffer within vrchat

[narrow juniper]

so, the solution was to simply use Amplify Shader Editor to create the shader, whatever

[narrow juniper]

to extend on this - anyone knows if there is a way to fix the depth buffer on the vrc camera? my shader seems to be using the one from my viewfield when viewed through vrc camera

[leaden tartan]

This is a current bug with the new camera. Depth effects will break as you've described. It can be fixed by toggling autofocus off/on as this bug relates to how they are doing autofocus.

[narrow juniper]

thank you!

[stable plover]

I'm using a 3rd person camera for my avatar here. The pause menu is always in front of my avatar's face rather than my screen. Is there a shader that projects the UI/pause/menus/etc. onto the screen and the camera's target texture right below it? This should only be available for the wearer and it shouldn't crash anyone; whether me by a camera>texture>shader>camera recursion or someone else by forgetting to implement disabling of the shader with a IsLocal safeguard.

[velvet sorrel]

Use a fade by distance node and get the min/max. You essentially need to check the distance between the depth position and depth position and min/max it with your fresnel

[velvet sorrel]

Feel free to submit a pull request or something, I haven't updated Hair with Anisotropy for an embarassingly long time so any push to work on it would be appreciated!

[pulsar flume]

hey does anyone know how to create a screen shader and have it only apply to my camera? unfortunately I haven't really been able to find any useful tutorials on screen shaders. I wish to create a zoom screen shader that of course only affects my avatar and will allow me to zoom in and see things far away (kind of like minecraft optifine zoom). I also want to try and create a HUD shader that'll show my current real world time. if anyone have any guidance or resources I could look at for more information then please let me know

[pulsar flume]

btw if you ever find a solution I'd like to know. I tried to do something similar a while ago and the best I could get was to use a second camera to render the UI but it didn't line up correctly wasn't following the screen properly

[stable plover]

The way I see to go around this is to have one huge locally enabled cube which has a shader that renders the target texture of the camera right below the UI. No cameras for the UI, no stamping of a large plane in front of wherever the avatar is assumed to be looking, but only through the shader. I can enable the cube locally, yes, but I don't know how to make a shader. I've seen this done before on YouTube tutorials, but nobody has ever given the solution. There is some very old implementation by Error in their HUD thing which has a viewport, but I don't think it will work since it's so old and since it requires somehow encapsulating the existing project into another project. It's so weird and it sounds like it could break something seriously in the current version.

[pulsar flume]

tbh I never thought about using a screen shader for that purpose but I also saw a video of someone using it for a HUD UI so I guess it makes sense that it could work but tbh I don't know how it works either. but I've only just discovered that HUD shader on youtube today so maybe I'll look into more on it. but there ain't a lot of learning resources on the topic so it's kind of difficult to find any information on

[safe geyser]

I have binoculars in my version of the HUD shader. I use a forward facing camera -> render texture -> big HUD panel and then animate the camera's FOV using the controller trigger, but of course it's not as nice as if you could just zoom the main camera

Let me know if you figure it out too

[true cosmos]

This is a kind of a long shot but it's worth the try, hope this is the right channel for it. I'm looking for a shader that has an effect with a still background image regardless of the avatars movement, kind of how the animation on the animated show chowder worked, with a background image with the characters overlaid on top.

[brazen jackal]

For clarification, you're looking for a premade shader that would use a 2D texture, and create a cut-out like effect, similar to using env map?

[true cosmos]

Yes , or a way to make one, i swear I've seen it on a avatar before

[bitter bane]

If it's what I think it is, then poiyomi has it, pretty sure it is the Parallax settings. Silents shaders probably has it too.

[narrow juniper]

question: is there a way to detect that rendering is done in a vrc mirror and disable depth buffer effects?

maybe some global variable I can read in the shader

[safe geyser]

#shaders message ?

[spice tide]

Does anyone know what the render queue number is that the new camera operates on?
I'm having depth issues with some shaders, but only when taking photos. The actual view and screenshots don't have depth issues.

[safe geyser]

I don't know, but out of curiosity what queue priority are those shaders using?

[leaden tartan]

There is a bug with the current implementation of the camera that breaks depth based effects in the camera/photo.

This bug is relating to how autofocus is done and can actually be bypassed by toggling Autofocus off and then on again.

https://feedback.vrchat.com/bug-reports/p/1151-depth-effects-break-with-new-camera-update should upvote.

[true cosmos]

Is it a non pro feature?

[leaden tartan]

Yes Parallax is a non pro feature that is included in Poi Toon

[true cosmos]

Awesome, ill try to see if its the one im looking for

[spice tide]

Ah ha! Will very much upvote that then. Thank you~ ¦3

[true cosmos]

It achieves the effect i was looking for if not a little toned down, thank you~

[sage summit]

hi, how to show 2 faces material? i use poiyomi toon

opaque vs cutout is no helpfull

[split girder]

At the bottom, rendering options > Cull > Off is what you're looking for i think ?

[sage summit]

It works! Thank you so much

[polar flume]

Hey guys, real quick question, does anyone know what the name is for that material/shader that makes the object look like it is moving along a texture?

I cannot for the life of me remember

[bitter bane]

Possibly a parallax effect, Poiyomi Toon Shaders has it as an option, as well as a lot of other things that might actually be what you want. Silents Shaders also might have it but I've not checked

[polar flume]

it's kind of like parallax except instead of being a bunch of different layers, it's just the flat texture

it was like stenoscope or stethoscope or something like that

[bitter bane]

I still say check Poiyomi, there are so many effects you can do, it would at least get you knowing the name of the effect if it has it

[polar flume]

aight... i swear it was default in the sdk or something though

cheers for the pointer

[bitter bane]

Ive never messed with any effect like that so it very well could

[hasty raven]

you know what I wish? that there was a way to make the unity shaders close to the ones we have in blender 2.93 with color ramps of each texture to make it feel like the real deal

you see, I was testing out accuracy for the Five Nights at Freddy's characters, Freddy being a good example of one

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/720976558394835055/913120424555081788/Screenshot_2233.png

and I got this

if anybody wants to recommend a better shader please tell me now so I shall consider it

[safe geyser]

On the PC?

There are shaders with color ramps on unity

You did not say which shader you're using

[past pewter]

hmm any idea about where to download this shader? QuantumShaders

[bitter bane]

Did you Google it?

[past pewter]

yep i get nothing

[bitter bane]

It looks like you'll need to find the discord for user QuantumHero, but I tried and didn't see where or if the person is even still active

[burnt fulcrum]

I have a shader that produces some rainbow effect, but it seems to be different in both eyes.

I have a basic understanding of programming but struggle to understand shaders specifically a lot.

Can anyone here begin to start helping me diagnose and fix that?

[void mulch]

Hi I'm making a experimental raymarching shader.
Right now it is using a normal unlit shader and thus it is limited to the objects bounds.
I have seen screen space effects in vrchat but can't find anything on how they are achieved.
One thing I found was on reddit and that did not have any useful answers just people saying that its obnoxious and that they should not add it and with that I agree.
But as my thing will not be my main avatar and it will most likely not be obnoxious. could someone please tell me how the screen space effects can be made from scratch? is it something already in unity?

[glacial abyss]

I recommend not doing it in screen space, otherwise even when it's very small on some people's screens, it will force everyone in the instance to render the whole screen's worth of pixels.

This is will hurt everyone's framerates signfiicantly.

However! What you CAN do is make your volume large enough to encompass all that you would want to render.

And if you render backfaces instead of front, you can go "inside" the volume to see everything.

[void mulch]

It will be capped at a certain distance plus ill use the depth buffer if possible for occlusion

[glacial abyss]

Early z cull is not as effective as you may expect.

[void mulch]

hmm okay

[glacial abyss]

And it varies between hardware.

[void mulch]

ill use this

Thanks!

[glacial abyss]

If you really do need it we can chat for a bit, it's not hard to expand a quad to cover everyone, within view's whole screen.

But, I strong advise against it.

[void mulch]

I will never use it for a long time

its mostly a experiment

[glacial abyss]

Github is down right now, but when it's up I'll link you some code.

[void mulch]

Alright thanks!

[glacial abyss]

https://github.com/cnlohr/shadertrixx#doing-full-screen-effects

I aim to make shadertrixx pretty much a compendium of shader knowledge from the shader people's discord.

[void mulch]

Nice

[crystal stone]

Does anyone know how to stencil the outline along with the mesh using ASE

[past pewter]

yo wtf

[proven moat]

I love men

[glossy sky]

hilarious

[fallen ether]

bRo

[signal flame]

aa

[lofty lynx]

Bruh what the fuck stop

[hard willow]

Wooah

[signal grove]

rad

[hard willow]

Thats smart

Thats acutllay smart

[cobalt trellis]

what

[signal grove]

im good how r u

[quick berry]

stop or i will stab everyone here

[hard willow]

Impressive

[cobalt trellis]

i’m good thanks for asking

[stuck haven]

bruh

[proven moat]

I'm quit good today thanks for asking

[hallow nest]

facking returds

[hard willow]

Holy

[past pewter]

Nice.

[limber gulch]

😂

[cobalt trellis]

i’m good thanks

[sour spear]

thank god

[stark belfry]

what the fuck

[glossy sequoia]

Tf

[past pewter]

reeee

[hybrid magnet]

um...?

[short raft]

💀💀💀

[quick berry]

MODS HELP

[stuck haven]

shaders for vrchat? since when?

[maiden pumice]

😩

[terse wraith]

Uh oh

[quick berry]

<@&397642795457970181>

help

please

[past pewter]

How are you doing today @buoyant loom

[quick berry]

oh

ok

[fluid crest]

I'm doing great! A lot better than you, probably. How are your parents doing? Still dissapointed in you? Oh well, keep at it, they'll come around eventually! Have a nice day!

[sage solar]

…?

[vagrant moss]

um, anyone else get pinged?

[void solar]

lolll

wtf

[velvet sorrel]

Yeah, there's some kind of raid going on but the bot is cleaning it up

[steep acorn]

big sad.

[paper jasper]

Did someone individually ping every single username?

[uneven loom]

there was a bunch of spam Bots

[ancient garden]

Oh I thought it was a notif

[north robin]

Who pinged me?

[analog tiger]

I have been pinged (などと)

あ、サイレンスさんだ。はろー。

[brazen jackal]

I've been at this way too long. I'm trying to make a shader repeat part of a texture (on the x coord) and ignore the rest. This function should work, right? float xCoord = modf(uv.x, cellWidth); It should (effectively) move any uv coorinates to a range between 0 and cellWidth. For example, 0.625 should be changed to 0.125 if the cellWidth is 0.5, or -0.125 being changed to 0.375 if the cellWidth is 0.5. Am I missing something here?

Even when entering a cellWidth of 1.0f, I seem to be getting values above 1.0, or below 0

nvm. Figured it out. modf doesn't work with negative numbers.

[glacial abyss]

@brazen jackal you are missing the most important trick: https://github.com/cnlohr/shadertrixx#the-most-important-trick

#define glsl_mod(x,y) (((x)-(y)*floor((x)/(y)))) 

Note that on HLSL, this, at worst is the same number of instructions as modf, at best it can be even more concise. Don't let the verbosity fool you.

That makes negatives work in a sane way.

[brazen jackal]

Thank you!

[hasty raven]

I've got a question for everybody

Is it possible to mix a fresnel color with a mask to make stuff more accurate?

Like the Five Nights at Freddy's models?

[amber oasis]

Anyone know that shader that makes avatars look blocky? Sorta like PS1 or something

[uneven loom]

that would be on the modeling not something a Shader could do

[amber oasis]

No, theres a shader that does it. Makes it look kinda wobbly

I found out Poiyomi can do it

[leaden tartan]

Pretty sure this is what u want.

PSX Retro Shader
https://github.com/dsoft20/psx_retroshader

The PSX shader will make things kinda shake like old playstation 1 games and pixelates things. My guess is that's what you're talking about. I've used it a lot in vrc and it works good.

[amber oasis]

Yoooo, thanks man

[astral plover]

Anybody know what could be causing this? It's not Mipmaps, or nearby colours in the UVs... https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/602917015883350041/915397385524490300/unknown.png

Hair islands are completely isolated

[tired token]

If you increase Aniso on the texture does that help?

@astral plover ^

[thorn moon]

Anyone got a recommendation for a snow shader similar to this one - https://booth.pm/en/items/1677650 - that can take a ground shape that isn't a quad square? I've got a rounded area I'd love to fill with snow, but that's not exactly doable with a rectangular quad mesh.

[uneven loom]

dumb suggestion you just make the quad bigger than your play area on your map

as like any Shader like that is probably going to have a square shape to the tracking area if it's using a camera to handle where people have gone on the snow

[thorn moon]

Yeaaaah, that's not gonna work. It's what I'd do if I could but...

[uneven loom]

okay fair that's a bit more complicated

wouldn't hurt just to see what happens if you put the Shader on your ground

[thorn moon]

Simple Snow specifically needs a Quad.

I've gone down the list on this one already.

[leaden tartan]

The example uses a quad, but a quad isn't needed. It's okay if the camera extends past the bounds of your map. Just remove the default cube and replace it with a cylinder or literally just dupe the floor of the world in blender and use that, you may need to tweak the settings on the material slightly, but the material can be used on bout any mesh

[thorn moon]

I'll give it another go then, cheers.

[leaden tartan]

Depending on your mesh, you may need to edit the shader, line 11, change the max value for how tall you can make the snow from 1 to idk whatever, I had to up it to 5 to be thick on my cylinder but it worked fine otherwise.

[thorn moon]

Height's no problem, it was just the general shape giving me issue.

[leaden tartan]

[thorn moon]

Got it working!

[uneven loom]

nice have a screenshot?

[astral plover]

It doesn't help past 1.

[rich plover]

can you animate anything shader keyword related with 3.0 or how does that work? such as if you have different color modes or etc and that can be changed via a custom editor,

[safe geyser]

Create one material for each variant and swap the material

[wooden mango]

how do artists generally achieve a cel-shaded look using quest shaders?

[sharp pike]

With a matcap that looks like cel-shading I think

[still fog]

Anyone have outline shaders for quest??

[sharp pike]

You can't use custom shaders on quest avatars so there aren't any. You can either use a matcap that has a black or dark edge (looks a bit different), or create an inverted hull manually in blender, what outline shaders normally do for you, where you duplicate all the polygons in your mesh, fatten the duplicates slightly and then flip the normals (this effectively doubles your polygon count)

[lusty valve]

I built a pretty nice rainy glass shader using Amplify Shader Editor. It works great on PC, but on the Android side, it simply doesn't appear at all. Is there a safe way of translating an Amplify Shader to make it compliant with VRChat's Android shader restrictions?

[lusty valve]

The only particularly weird thing the shader is doing is using a grabpass to fake refractions. It's otherwise just some texture tricks.

I feel like I've seen other people get rain shaders working on Quest... I just don't know how to get an Amplify shader to translate, if it's at all possible.

[little cape]

From what I know you should not use shaders with grabpass on Quest, since they will make one eye render black.

[lusty valve]

is there another effective refraction fake for quest?

[undone hound]

yes, asovrix is right
i would avoid refraction on quest, it does not perform well with transparency reliant shaders

i never tried this on quest, but you can try https://gitlab.com/s-ilent/fake-glass

[sharp pike]

Yes, Silent's fake-glass uses the reflection probes rather than a grab pass so is much more performant in general. Just note that normal transparency isn't available on quest avatars for a reason and while it may be allowed on worlds, it's advised that you don't use it. From the vrc quest content optimization documentation:

You should avoid needing transparency completely. Alpha fill rate is a significant performance sink for mobile GPUs, so design around not having transparency whenever possible.

[astral plover]

My one friend sees my avatar like this. Is this a GPU error?

Nobody else sees it

[lusty valve]

thanks for this. i can reverse engineer his reflection lookup and use it with my rain textures... it's looking very promising

[undone hound]

you are welcome. silent is she/her

[grizzled plover]

Hey everyone ! I'd need some help with a shader. Would anyone know why my shader is doing that ? : ( lights casting though ears )

[safe geyser]

Transparency?

[grizzled plover]

I'm rendering as opac so i don't think ( unless i messed up of course )

[brisk gull]

Which shader?

[safe geyser]

That was going to be my next question

Regardless, you can probably prevent this by adjusting the render queue priority at the bottom

But yeah, it's hard to tell what the shader's doing without knowing which shader it is

[grizzled plover]

I stripped the shader to make it as simple as possible and it's still doing it:

( sorry i tried copy/pasting as text but the bot told i was spamming, so picture it is ^.^ =

[hexed garden]

almost looks like a messed up shadowcaster pass, try adding a pass like this to your shader

        Pass
        {
            Tags {"LightMode"="ShadowCaster"}
            Cull Off
            CGPROGRAM
            #pragma vertex vert
            #pragma fragment frag
            #pragma multi_compile_shadowcaster
            #pragma multi_compile_instancing
            #include "UnityCG.cginc"

            struct v2f { 
                V2F_SHADOW_CASTER;
                float4 uv : TEXCOORD0;
            };

            v2f vert(appdata_base v)
            {
                v2f o;
                UNITY_SETUP_INSTANCE_ID(v);
                TRANSFER_SHADOW_CASTER_NORMALOFFSET(o)
                o.uv = v.texcoord;
                return o;
            }

            float4 frag(v2f i) : SV_Target
            {
                SHADOW_CASTER_FRAGMENT(i)
            }
            ENDCG
        }```

[grizzled plover]

OMG it works !!! Thank you thank you thank you thank you !!!!! ♥️

[past pewter]

Anyone know a shader that allows emission and doesnt look bad on quest

[sharp pike]

For avatars I guess the only option is Standard Lite. Kind of weird that there's no unlit shader for quest avatars, I get that it can be painful on the eyes in VR when its on an entire avatar, but it should be the cheapest shader to render and it would be effective as an emissive shader.

[subtle ingot]

Kinda new to writing shaders and compatibility seems kinda weird. For use in PC vrchat, can you write shaders in shader graph through the Unity Universal Render Pipeline or do you need to write all shaders in hlsl?

I get that the shader graph basically just simplifies and visualizes hlsl for node work but I don't know if you can use the shaders as is after making them with URP

[brisk gull]

URP is another render pipeline, doesn't work. Game uses built-in.

You can make shaders in;
Shaderforge, Amplify, HLSL

[subtle ingot]

are shaderforge and amplify tools for working in hlsl or are they something completely different?

[brisk gull]

Node based

Similar to shader graph

[subtle ingot]

Ah ok. I tried making a shader or two in visual studio but I couldn't get a hold of what was going on in the tutorials.

At least not enough to apply ir for myself

Nodes will be a real help. thanks

[winged pagoda]

how to make emission on quest?

[winged pagoda]

what server is that emoji from

[past pewter]

Standard lite looks like ass

[subtle ingot]

shader forge makes me so angry but amplify costs money!

the tools are mostly functional but unity compatibility is so messed up. That's fair though since it's not being developed anymore.

[agile totem]

MatcapLit?

[sharp pike]

No, as the "Lit" implies, that shader responds to lighting. The matcap part of it is simply multiplied with the texture.

[leaden tartan]

Indeed. Standard lite is the only option as if you give it an emission and remove reflections and specular you basically are left with unlit.

[slender plume]

hey so im having a little bit of an issue and im not sure if im just dumb but can somone help me ?

[leaden tartan]

Don't ask to ask, just ask :3

[slender mountain]

Hi, everyone! I'm having an issue with a water shader that I'm trying to use in a world I'm building. Since VRC uses forward rendering I think I need to add a special script that they've given me for a depth texture. Their instructions just say to add it to the camera. Otherwise the water is invisible. When I add it to the "Main Camera" in the scene then it lets me see the water in Unity but not when I upload the world.

Does anyone know where else I can add that script so that it's visible correctly in VRC?

This is for the Lux Water Shader.

[stiff berry]

Directional lights with shadows enabled can generate the depth buffer, and also some post processing effects. Read the bottom of this page https://github.com/Xiexe/XSVolumetrics

that explains how to enable it with minimal impact to performance

[slender mountain]

Oh, hi Toocanzs! It's been a while. I hope you're doing well!

Also thank you. I'll try that.

[stiff berry]

I'm doing well

I'm always lurking in shader channels

[slender mountain]

I'm really happy to hear that. I still use that leash shader you made for me. ❤️

[agile totem]

standard eats matcaplit help

what am i doing wrong here?

yeah standard doesnt like matcaplit. using standardlite fixed it

[agile totem]

did u fix it? try standardlit instead of standard

[naive wagon]

i can't seem to find the billboard shader to add to my sprite, i'ma need help for this

[naive wagon]

well, got it working, but using the shader, there's no cutout option to remove unnecessary background of the sprite

[naive wagon]

i'm looking for a billboard shader that supports cutout

[granite jolt]

Anyone know a good shader that cant take substance painter realistic skin? since this is what it looks like in substance painter. Any good shaders to make it look almost like this? other than the standard or autodesk material.

[uneven loom]

the standard one should work unless you're doing like subsurface scattering which I'm not particularly seeing any in the screenshot

[astral plover]

Reros standard or mochies

[thick tendon]

I’m looking for a shader that adds feathers or hair

And can use masks

[limpid bronze]

Is there a way to test the shader fallback system without spooling up an alt account on another PC and joining the same world?

[limpid bronze]

Matcap is listed as one of the supported fallbacks, but _MatCap isn't listed as one of the copied parameters. Does it not get copied over? I can't get it to work.

[carmine edge]

Did I do something wrong after I imported?

[fringe sand]

To me, it just looks like you haven't added the textures to the materials on the model.

[carmine edge]

I have the texture file for the model

[fringe sand]

Sometimes if the textures don't show up on the model, you have to extract the materials in your Unity project and apply the textures to the model.

[carmine edge]

so how would I extract it then

This is what it looks like on blender

[fringe sand]

Click the model fbx file, go to the materials section on the right, and click extract materials.

[carmine edge]

Isnt the fbx file located at import?

[fringe sand]

It's the model that you dragged into the Unity scene.

[carmine edge]

Oh

[fringe sand]

Yeah

[carmine edge]

Where do i find the material section?

[fringe sand]

It's on the right. You should see a section called Materials, click that.

[carmine edge]

Alright at materials

After I click on materials what's the next step?

[fringe sand]

Click extract materials

[carmine edge]

I tried and it says the samething

Ill show you

it doesnt show the texture since the file is blender

[fringe sand]

Wait a moment, the model is a blend file? You need to export it as an FBX.

[carmine edge]

untitled blend is the model that has the texture in it

[fringe sand]

Is the model in Unity an FBX or is it a blend?

[carmine edge]

Blend. I should have said something specific

so is there something that I missed before I fbx

[fringe sand]

You need the model to be FBX or DAE for Unity to properly load the model. If you have Cats Blender Plugin, it should have an option to export the model as an FBX.

[carmine edge]

I have cats plugin installed

[fringe sand]

Then all you have to do is bring up the tool menu for it to export the model as an FBX.

[carmine edge]

this right?

[fringe sand]

No

[carmine edge]

I clicked on the tool menu

[fringe sand]

There is a standalone section calls Cats

[carmine edge]

at cats

[fringe sand]

There should be a thing in the cats section called export, you click that.

[fringe sand]

Just click continue to export.

[carmine edge]

ok

I exported now

[fringe sand]

Now you should be able to extract the materials from it.

[carmine edge]

got a error message since the texture isnt there. So its on blender

[fringe sand]

Like I said, you have to extract the materials from the fbx and apply the textures to the material.

[carmine edge]

ok

[carmine edge]

I looked it up and found out that I didnt saved the picture

[carmine edge]

so I am wondering about the face

[fringe sand]

You look to be missing eyelash textures, and you need to make sure to set the eyelash material to fade.

[steel nebula]

Does anyone know how to make an avatar go invisible by dissolving away.

Is it a shader or is it a plug in that you download

[naive wagon]

can i get some help with a shader? I want to use a billboard with a cutout option of a sprite for my world, and the one i have does not include the cutout option

[carmine edge]

I followed it but I did something wrong

[fringe sand]

Did you make sure to set the material for the eyelashes and eyebrows to fade?

[past pewter]

Is there a shader that can constantly and randomly go through a series of textures, also at random speed intervals if possible? Say like a shader that I can plop 5 textures in and it cycles through them every .5 seconds for the Albedo

[glacial abyss]

I don't think any out-of-box, but it is particularly easy to do this. You can right-click, make a new "Surface Shader", then copy the _MainTex property several times (wherever it's referenced) And name them _MainTex0, _MainTex1, etc...

Then, you can write something like

float looptime = mod( _Time.y, 50 ); // Makes a number count of 0..49.999 in seconds
int image = int(looptime / 10.0); // Makes 
if( image == 0 )
   c = tex2D (_MainTex0, IN.uv_MainTex);
else if( image == 1 )
   c = tex2D (_MainTex1, IN.uv_MainTex);
... etc

You're likely to have some bugs but I'd rather go into teach-a-man-to-fish mode @past pewter if you're up for learning.

[past pewter]

sure why not how hard can it beeeeeee

that was sarcastic but im still willing

[glacial abyss]

https://giphy.com/gifs/elvira-georgia-dex-wi8Ez1mwRcKGI

[past pewter]

is the ... etc part of the code

or

thats just implying more lines of the same code right

[glacial abyss]

more lines of the same

but instead of using _MainTex0 it's _MainTex1

[past pewter]

now there r 3 slots for albedo texture in the material settings

they dont work but they exist

I BROKE IT

[glacial abyss]

Correct! You will need to add more sampler2D _MainTex1, _MainTex2...

[glacial abyss]

You will do this a lot. For even a slightly complicated shader, several hundred times.

Relax, errors are your friends, acting as guard rails on this mad ride we call life.

[past pewter]

oka

i trust

this is def not where its supposed to go

I wouldnt put it directly under the property would i

I cant figure out where to place the logic

english?

HELP

its something with struct

these errors are hyper specific https://forum.unity.com/threads/surface-shader-with-structuredbuffer-error-solved.458403/

[glacial abyss]

ah! so!

Your code needs to live in the surf function

outside that you can only have definitions.

[past pewter]

ah okok

[glacial abyss]

see past line 49

[past pewter]

under void surf? ok

[glacial abyss]

yep

[past pewter]

it didnt work so I made a whole new shader and copied the naming conventions you did and its still breaking

like the _MainTex0 and _MainTex1

[glacial abyss]

you are making progress

give me a sec

No semicolon.

Use a comma.

[past pewter]

oh between them?

[glacial abyss]

yep

semicolon says like "I'm done with this thing totally"

whereas comma kinda says "more coming"

[past pewter]

that makes sense'

thats the one unity put there

on 44

[glacial abyss]

So, to keep things simple, after thinking about it, I recommend keeping _MainTex, and just adding _MainTex1, _MainTex2, etc.

it's a quirk of the way the surface shaders work.

[past pewter]

ah ok

[glacial abyss]

On many of mine, I just keep a _MainTex so I get access to uv_MainTex

[past pewter]

would I also have to say _MainTex1 somewhere too

why tf is visual studio not making fixed5 blue

i t nedds to be blue to work

oh fixed 5 isnt a thing

not 5 dimentions

2 seeds is unesseccary

it doesnt like your code

wt tf does it want me to declare about it

do I just do #define mod

what the fuck it actually worked

50 seconds is insanely long so im just going to make that 1 and hope no breaky

its not changing in play mode

did you intentionally make the code broken

I changed it to frac(_Time.y / seconds) past looptime =

now there r no errrs but it still doesnt change between the 2 images i placed in the material settings

in play mode when I let it sit

why tf is it dividing looptime by 10 how is that going to make an integer

i have this so far

[glacial abyss]

sorry back

[past pewter]

ur fine

[glacial abyss]

I shouldn't have said mod, I recommend using glsl_mod, normally, it actually translates to the minimum representation.

#define glsl_mod(x,y) (((x)-(y)*floor((x)/(y)))) 

you can paste that in the area above.

[past pewter]

so I should go back to using mod and not frac

[glacial abyss]

if you say frac(_Time.y/1) that's going to cause looptime to reloop every second. It will never exceed 1.

I recommend using glsl_mod

frac will keep your value between 0 and 1.

[past pewter]

oh ok

[glacial abyss]

with glsl_mod, you can say glsl_mod( number, 2 ) and it'll go 0 up to 1, then when it hits 2 it'll go bac kto 0.

[past pewter]

ooh ok and then what does the y mean in the _Time

because i saw a post and it said x divided by 20

for some reason

[glacial abyss]

yep

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

Look there for some of the things you get access to. _Time looks weird, but it's reasonably good.

[past pewter]

and if I do just _Time then its just time thats it nothing facy

OH its 20 because 1/20 of a second is a tick

[glacial abyss]

I didn't know that.

Anyway I normally use _Time.y because I think in seconds.

How is the fight going?

[past pewter]

its not working

or wait

wait

why is the logic dividing looptime by 10

when a float is taken as an int does it round to the nearest whole number

[glacial abyss]

not nearest

lowest

it's the same as floor(x)

Can you copy-paste your code, as it stands?

And I can review it?

[past pewter]

        int image = int(looptime / 10); // Makes 
            if( image == 0 )
        c = tex2D (_MainTex, IN.uv_MainTex);
            else if( image == 1 )
        c = tex2D (_MainTex1, IN.uv_MainTex);
        }```

how long is it supposed to take to change the texture

i need > and < signs its going to hit exactly 0 and 1 for like 0.00000001% of the time I see this

        int image = int(looptime / 10); // Makes 
            if( image >= 1 )
        c = tex2D (_MainTex, IN.uv_MainTex);
            else if( image <= 1 )
        c = tex2D (_MainTex1, IN.uv_MainTex);
        }```

        float image = float(looptime / 10); // Makes 
            if( image >= 1 )
        c = tex2D (_MainTex, IN.uv_MainTex);
            else if( image <= 1 )
        c = tex2D (_MainTex1, IN.uv_MainTex);
        }```

[glacial abyss]

no I mean the whole shader

but also your logic is wrong

well it's right but weird

normally things are structured like:

if( image < 1.0 )
   ...
else if( image < 2.0 )
   ...
else if( image < 3.0 )
   ...

But I think your bigger issue surrounds the way you're using this

One thing you can use to test is you can set your output albedo to specific colors to test what code is running or not.

I.e.

set the color to red (float4(1,0,0,1)) in some condition. If it turns red, you know the code is being executed.

[past pewter]

okay

and what does c mean I cant find anything on google because it thinkgs im talking abt the C in C#

it seems very important

[glacial abyss]

please just send your whole shader, I can explain from there.

[past pewter]

My code isnt being run because I switch the < to > and > to < and it doesnt change

ok

{
    Properties
    {
        _Color ("Color", Color) = (1,1,1,1)
        _MainTex ("Albedo (RGB)", 2D) = "white" {}
        _MainTex1 ("Albedo (RGB)", 2D) = "white" {}
        _Glossiness ("Smoothness", Range(0,1)) = 0.5
        _Metallic ("Metallic", Range(0,1)) = 0.0
    }
    SubShader
    {
        Tags { "RenderType"="Opaque" }
        LOD 200

        CGPROGRAM
        // Physically based Standard lighting model, and enable shadows on all light types
        #pragma surface surf Standard fullforwardshadows

        // Use shader model 3.0 target, to get nicer looking lighting
        #pragma target 3.0
        #define glsl_mod(x,y) (((x)-(y)*floor((x)/(y)))) 
        sampler2D _MainTex, _MainTex1;

        struct Input
        {
            float2 uv_MainTex;
        };

        half _Glossiness;
        half _Metallic;
        fixed4 _Color;
        
        // Add instancing support for this shader. You need to check 'Enable Instancing' on materials that use the shader.
        // See https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/GPUInstancing.html for more information about instancing.
        // #pragma instancing_options assumeuniformscaling
        UNITY_INSTANCING_BUFFER_START(Props)
            // put more per-instance properties here
        UNITY_INSTANCING_BUFFER_END(Props)

        void surf (Input IN, inout SurfaceOutputStandard o)
        {
            // Albedo comes from a texture tinted by color
            fixed4 c = tex2D (_MainTex, IN.uv_MainTex) * _Color;
            o.Albedo = c.rgb;
            
            // Metallic and smoothness come from slider variables
            o.Metallic = _Metallic;
            o.Smoothness = _Glossiness;
            o.Alpha = c.a;

            float looptime = glsl_mod( _Time.y, 20 ); // Makes a number count of 0..49.999 in seconds
        float image = float(looptime / 10); // Makes 
            if( image < 1 )
        c = tex2D (_MainTex, IN.uv_MainTex);
        
            else if( image > 1 )
        c = tex2D (_MainTex1, IN.uv_MainTex);
        

        
        }
        ENDCG
    }
    FallBack "Diffuse"
}

[glacial abyss]

c is just a temporary value, a place to store color before setting o.Albedo to that!

Ah!

that is the issue

you are setting C but never updating o.Albedo

This is not your fault, I never told you where to put the code

[past pewter]

oh

id think it automatically update it if c is changing

how do I update it

[glacial abyss]

nope, it's a set of steps

at the end, set o.Albedo = c;

[past pewter]

it worked

it takes ages to change but it works

ok I sped up the logic

instead of 20 and 10 its 2 and 1

works just about how id want it to

ok time to make more

[glacial abyss]

wonderful!

[past pewter]

        float image = float(looptime / 1); // Makes 
            if( image < 1 )
        c = tex2D (_MainTex, IN.uv_MainTex);
        
            else if( image < 2 )
        c = tex2D (_MainTex1, IN.uv_MainTex);
        
        else if( image < 3 )
        c = tex2D (_MainTex2, IN.uv_MainTex);
        
        o.Albedo = c;
        
        }
        ENDCG
    }
    FallBack "Diffuse"
}```

seems to work

is there a more efficient way to do this

[glacial abyss]

Lots more efficient ways!

But, don't worry, this is already like 10x faster than any of the normal shaders people run around with.

[past pewter]

ok thats reassuring

thank you this has been very helpful

[glacial abyss]

💯

[carmine edge]

@fringe sand want too see the texture file on unity that I have w/ the model?

[dapper rivet]

quick question, which shaders are blocked by other users, like if they disable shaders in the safety, which shader should i use for my avatar to not be entirely pink/purple to them

[sharp pike]

There is a shader fallback system that changes the shader on your avatar when someone disables your avatar's shaders in the safety system: https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/shader-fallback-system
It had a fairly recent upgrade to give shader creators easier control as well as adding more shader properties that get copied over to the fallback. At worst, if the system can't guess anything about the shader you're using in order to give a suitable fallback, you'll end up with a matcap shader with the colour set to match the colour of your trust rank. This picture shows how such a fallback looks on someone with the User trust rank.

[dapper rivet]

Ah gotcha, thank you!

[agile totem]

Lol the color fallback is still a thing? Havent seen that recently, shader ppl are getting better at choosing (the wrong) fallback shaders lately

[hearty fulcrum]

anyone know of a shader that simulates liquid movement that works on avatars?

[carmine edge]

what do you mean set the material for the eyelashes and eyebrows to fade? @fringe sand

[bitter bane]

they probably mean to use cutout or transparent, cutout is usually what you want, but you cannot do so when uploading for quest

[carmine edge]

never mind its on render mode

I am wondering about the highlight for the eyes

so is there a way too fix the gray area of the eyes around the eyelash and highlight

[modest smelt]

Is there a VR-friendly shader that I can use to mask away everything that isn't the skybox?
I'm creating a world where you can travel to the middle of a 360 bubble to watch 360 videos, but I don't want players to be able to look out the window, look down and see the bubble.

I've tried a standard depth-mask shader, but all I get from that is after-images that display what the camera last saw like the cards that bounce in old Windows XP Solitaire

[bitter bane]

couldn't you just set the render distance lower and move the dome far enough away from where they could look out so they can't see it?

[uneven loom]

maybe you could just have some local rendering triggers to toggle the stuff on and off

[modest smelt]

I'll try both, I suppose. Thanks.

[surreal goblet]

Hey all, quick question- can I make very simple shaders in shader graph and still have it be okay for vrchat?

Going to keep it all mobile friendly but there is some functionality I’d really like in some shaders that is not present in standard and the vrchat material library

[bitter bane]

For PC, possibly, for Quest, no, you have to use the VRChat provided shaders

[tropic gate]

Is there some way to get the shadow camera position in shadow casting passes? I have a raymarched volume that I want to cast shadows, but the rays are still originating from the view camera in the shadow pass, so I get the wrong shadow. Previously I have been initializing my rays by using the direction between _WorldSpaceCameraPos and the fragment location in the world.

wait, that's probably not a good way to do things, since there are directional and point lights that all cast shadows. Anyone have experience with making raymarched shaders play nicely with unity lighting system?

[hybrid solstice]

This might be a dumb thing to ask, and I can't remember if I asked this a long time ago, but when dealing with shaders, I assume the process is that after you model in Blender, you then do all your shader work in Unity? Since I assume that Blender shader stuff won't transfer over to Unity.

[brittle plinth]

Correct

[hybrid solstice]

Thanks!

[glacial abyss]

I've been using bendotcom's code. https://github.com/cnlohr/shadertrixx/#raycasting-with-orthographic-and-normal-cameras

[tropic gate]

wait, does VRC even have shadows? Now that I think about it, I feel like I don't tend to see them in the game

[uneven loom]

yes it can have shadows just most map creators don't tend to put on a real time light in their map to cast Shadows for avatars because of performance reasons

[tropic gate]

does VRChat have any minimum directX requirement? Is it okay to use #pragma target 5.0 in shaders?

(I need SV_DepthLessEqual to allow occlusion culling for raymarched impostors)

[glacial abyss]

Yes, pretty much any discrete GPU made since 2011 support SM5.0.

[molten mica]

Anyone know of a good pc shader for use with unreal engine 4 textures for avatars

I wanna upload some Final Fantasy 7 remake models but can't quite get them looking close to original game with the shaders I have, and feel free to DM me and or Ping me with any info

[thorn moon]

How do I use the hue toggle slider on Poiyomi Toon in an animation? The shader locks when I build my avatar and won't change in-game.

[little cape]

You need to right click on a property before locking shader. It will show a clock icon and will be still affected by animations after you lock the shader.

[agile totem]

help my body matcap is black

[nimble vector]

Prob due to baked lighting of the world

[agile totem]

It didnt do it before i think

The other 3 mats are matcaps too

[leaden tartan]

Why is the fern also pitch black or is that part of your avatar cuz I don't remember that being there? was this on Quest or PC? are you using the Mobile MatCap Lit Shader?

Have you attempted to restart the game? What MatCap are you using?

[agile totem]

matcaplit

[agile totem]

Nvm that was a different problem i messed up an animclip

But still matcaplit sometimes behaves weird with the Standard material behind it

Only copying a material i made before fixed it

It otherwise was transparent

[scenic peak]

quick question
if i want to make my models skin slightly brighter do I use emission for that?
or will that glow ingame
the lighting in most VRChat worlds is making for a very gross looking offwhite the way i have it now

Im using Poiyomi Toon if that makes a difference

[bold iris]

emissions, matcaps, the main color, etc can all do that, emission doesnt neccesarily glow ingame depending on how heavily u use it kinda

i mean it always glows a little i assume ? it is a emission afterall but not to the point where it is noticeable atleast not if u ask me, i use it on all my skin

[pine venture]

I wanna try to make a Shader that does not Z-Test (Its a wristband thats around someones hand, sometimes the avatar covers it, want it to render through the avatar), is there a good way to do that

I tried putting ZTest Always but its not rendering in VRC (Still rendering in Unity through)

https://i.imgur.com/JDKdxCY.png

Basically peoples sleves are getting in the way

(Also ideally this would work on quest as well)

[uneven loom]

you cannot use custom shaders on Quest avatars

[pine venture]

This is for a world (The wristband is given by a world)

I'm trying to make it so the Wristband isn't blocked by the avatars sleeves/whatever and renders on top

[uneven loom]

I don't write shaders so I have no clue and hopefully that works on Quest if you find someone who does know how to

[pine venture]

ZWrite On
Ztest off

Add these (Took me a bit to figure out)

[somber widget]

Note that that will be kind of annoying as it'll render through everything, even if it's far away. I'd consider using stencils instead

[honest jackal]

might be the wrong place to ask , but how do people get this kind of shader on quest avatars?

it acts kinda like a refelction? when you move around it it warps

[uneven loom]

Matcap Lit probably

[honest jackal]

Oooh i will chek , thanks

[fringe sand]

Okay, I've managed to import a model into Blender to use in VRC, and I noticed the textures it uses are diffuse, normal, weathering, weathering mask, detail gloss, metallic gloss, detail mask and colored Occlusion maps. Are there any shaders that can handle those textures properly?

[brittle plinth]

You'd probably be better off baking out the textures to just diffuse, normal, gloss/roughness, and occlusion.

[restive badge]

How can I hide my avatar when its inside an invisible box? I tried setting my avatar to queue 2002 and enabling z-writes in Poiyomi on a transparent object with the StencilInvis shader in queue 2001 but the shadows of my avatar are still rendered. I also tried using Poiyomi Transparent shader in queue 2001 with zwrites enabled, but it does nothing as if it never wrote the zvalues.

I thought about using stencils, but I can't think of a way to use those which would hide my avatar only if it's inside the box, unless its possible to combine the stencil test with a z test somehow. I realize it may be impossible not to hide the avatar if its outside but behind the box, as the box will definitely render on top of it then. Though I suppose... if I were to render the inside faces with a different material and use stencils in some clever way, maybe I could stop the front faces from hiding the avatar if they're behind it too? Hm... I have zero experience using stencils.

Hm... So it seems like I can do z compares with stencils. But do I even need to?

If I have the back faces decrementsaturate on pass (which means they'll attempt to subtract 1 and clamp to 0) with the compare function being always, and then I have the front faces incrementsaturate on pass, again with the compare function on always, then if the pixel being written ever encounters a stencil that is greater than 0, that should be...

Well, hm... I suppose that depends on if the renderer is drawing front to back or not. The back face has to be drawn after to be able to decrement the value. And the player has to be drawn last. Though I suppose if I use render queue I can control the order in which they render...

So...
frontface material = incrementsaturate, always, queue 2000
backface material = decrementsaturate, always, queue 2001
player material = keep, stencilcompare equal, queue 2002

and then for my transparent player materials = keep, stencilcomparequal, queue 3000

I'm not sure but I think I might need to also adjust the stencil reference value to 1 for the backface and frontface as I think that would be used as the amount to increment and decrement by. The others would leave that at 0.

So to put it another way...
I draw the front faces first, incrementing the stencil by 1. If there's two front faces at the same location that would give me a value of 2 in the stencil buffer.
Then I draw the back faces, decrementing the stencil by 1. If there's an equal number of backfaces at that location as there are front faces, or more, then my stencil buffer will be reset to 0 at that location.
Then I draw the player's opaque and transparent materials, only where the stencil buffer is 0.

Hm... I'm thinking this will work fine for a single cube, though if the player is standing between two cubes.. Well, if they're standing between two cubes they should be visible... But... Hm... Actually, I'm not even sure this will work at all as I have it.

I think the player needs to be able to block the backfaces and front faces from being able to update the stencil buffer if they're on top of it. That way if the player is inside a cube, behind the front face, the backface won't disable the stencil there...

[fringe sand]

What about the weathering map?

[brittle plinth]

The weathering map is likely used to determine blending of other properties, so it’ll end up baked into the other maps.

[fringe sand]

Ah, okay. I know the game the textures came from was built in Unity, so I at least know that Unity is capable of supporting those textures.

[brittle plinth]

The game being made in Unity means pretty much nothing when it comes to shaders

The shaders used in that game were likely entirely custom, which means the default shaders you have access to would not be able to do the same stuff.

[fringe sand]

Which is why I asked if there might be a shader that supports those types of textures.

The shaders I've got are. Poiyomi, Standard, Autodesk, SCSS, Silent's Standard Shader and Mochie's Uber Shader.

[brisk gull]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weathering
Weathering map and mask are most likely for some sort of dirty/grimy look that can be manipulated.

Might be helpful to state what game it was used in?

Linking the dictionary just to explain more in what I mean.

[pine venture]

Its only going to be for the player who is currently wearing the wristband, the only thing it obscures thats important is the other hand, but I'm working around that atm

[somber widget]

Ah yeah if it's local that might be fine then

[pine venture]

Ye its local

I know I can't make it so it renders through the left side of the avatar but not the right

Since its on their left wrist

So I'm placing a marker on the index finger of the right hand to allow them to still use the menu properly

[somber widget]

You can if you use stencils

Basically you'd have a stencil write material on the left arm, then draw the wristband twice, once normally and once with ztest always but a stencil test

Make sure the stencil write happens after the right arm renders with normal ztest

Downside is you're burning two extra passes on this

And might interfere with other stencil users

[fringe sand]

The game in question is A.I Shoujo. I liked how the characters in the character creator looked, so I decided that I wanted to port a character I made in it to VRChat.

[fringe sand]

Here's a screenshot of a character as reference to give an idea on the look I'm wanting from the shader for the model.

[spare dagger]

I've got a question

what is Roughness adjust?

[surreal goblet]

Hey so, we cannot use shadergraph for quest worlds? Or can we, just ensuring that it doesnt cost too much on the quest hardware?

[little cape]

You can't use Shader Graph at all in VRC, since it is made for a different pipeline.

[elfin tendon]

where do i find shaders to use on my quest as when i try to use the normal mobile option it says its the wrong shader

[fringe sand]

Quest shaders are included with the VRC SDK.

[gaunt yew]

any idea on how to make this work with UTS or Poiyomi?
https://github.com/Vilar24/VilarVRC

[hardy sierra]

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[bitter pilot]

I haven’t done much with it, but it might be a dissolve effect in the shaders

[leaden tartan]

It's a hardware limitation. A lot of shaders would absolutely destroy the performance of the quest. Many shaders are outright not even supported on Android. There are very valid performance limitation reasons why you can't just use any shader on avatars. Course, as tech improves, this may change down the road, but for right now, you have to use the Mobile shaders provided by VRChat. However, if you wish to make a world, you can upload unsupported shaders and depending on the shader, it may or may not work and performance may or may not be ass, but it's up to you to test each unsupported shader you use.

[solar pine]

Every time I try to use a semi-transparent texture with any sort of alpha in the Poiyomi shader, this always happens. The level of transparency is correct, however everything just starts rendering through itself for some reason. Does anyone know what might be causing this?

[sick fossil]

Hey, I was wondering what shader I should use if I want my spartan's visr to light up when I speak. I want it to work like wheeljack's ears do in the original transformers show.

[limpid bronze]

Is this a single material on the whole thing?

[solar pine]

Yeah, it's just one material

[limpid bronze]

Then you need to separate the transparent part to a separate material. Transparent things can draw on top of each other, Unity will try and draw them from back to front but it can't do that if it's a single mesh

It looks like it draws the wheels last, but since the whole thing is a 'transparent material' it doesn't store depth information and the wheels get drawn anyway

If you don't want realistic transparency (ie. the glass effect) you should be able to set it to 'cutout'

transparency

which will just not draw transparent parts, but should make things look okay if you want an easy solution

[fringe sand]

I'm still looking for suggestions on shaders to use for a model from A.I Shoujo. Another thing I should note, the hair, eyebrow, eyelash, and eye textures are set up in such a way that they start out a certain color, and you have to adjust the texture in such a way, that it looks like a completely different color. It also appears to be more than just a usual hue/saturation change.

[bitter widget]

Try using the Fade render mode rather than Transparent

[sudden badge]

Hey does anyone know the name of the shader (or something similar to) the one used in Dream Waves as a waterbed?

link to the world -> https://vrchat.com/home/world/wrld_860bdea8-0499-4c16-8170-5683a3a3ab8a

[uneven loom]

https://booth.pm/en/items/3129610

[sudden badge]

Thank you so much 😄 !

[uneven loom]

glad to be of help

[indigo echo]

@halcyon kestrel sorry if it's not okay to @ you, I apologize but I have a question/ bug about your shaders , why do matcaps on XS toon get flipped in vrchat's mirrors. Can you fix this?

[tired token]

because the mirror is looking at you.

[indigo echo]

No they're flipped vertically

[tired token]

[robust fable]

i used matcap and keyframed it

[umbral osprey]

Fellas, I need help.
I am making some shaders in Shadergraph that are going wonderful so far, and I have plans to compile them for use in VRchat.
Though, if I ever use a Position node set to Object for UV coordinates, they won't work on anything that isn't a primitive. If I set it to World, it'll display as intended, but... if you know how this works, it means the texture will scroll if the object is grabbed and moved about. Not ideal for the intended implementation.
I am on Unity 2019.4.30f, with the latest supported version of URP.

Suzanne on the right functions as intended, because the scrolling bubbles utilize a totally normal UV node for that beautiful wobbly scrolling to work as intended.

So, does anyone know why this is?

[little cape]

You can't use Shader Graph for creating shaders for VRC, since VRC uses Built-in Render Pipeline.

[sharp pike]

Regardless of the incompatibilities of Shader Graph and VRC, note that object position will be affected by draw call batching since it combines meshes together https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.4/Documentation/Manual/DrawCallBatching.html and I think object position will also require you to take into account the object's scale.

[umbral osprey]

Oh, I thought if I compiled the shader graph into a shader script, I could put it in.

[umbral osprey]

Like, there's a compile and show code button. Can I use it in VRchat after converting it to a traditional script shader, or are they designed to only work on URP regardless?

I know NOTHING about coding, that's why I'm using the node-based approach.

Oh. I have to switch to Amplify if I'm gonna be stubborn on nodes. Welp, this is gonna hurt.

[hollow ermine]

anyone know where i can get a good shockwave shader effect

[umbral osprey]

Good news, Amplify's built-in vertex texcoord node solved my issue with the custom meshes. Thank god it's 50% off right now.

[umbral osprey]

It's not as blue as it was, but I am confident that I can fix that.

I just need to figure out how Amplify handles iridescence and I should be set.
I hope to get it somewhat close to how it appeared with shadergraph. Well, colors-wise, anyway. Perhaps not THAT flashy.

[umbral osprey]

Ah! I think I got it!

[spare dagger]

hey guys, I need a shader where I can adjust the specular reflections of an animatronic

because this ain't getting me anywhere

[umbral osprey]

Real quick, before ANYTHING else, a 4096x4096 texture square is OBSCENELY large.

[little cape]

yeah it is, you should avoid using more than one of it per avatar

[umbral osprey]

Aside from that, and I can check real quick, I'm pretty sure most of those can just be plugged into the standard shader.

[little cape]

But then there are avatars with 8k textures...

[umbral osprey]

Ah! So THAT'S who's been making me throw up in VR when they enter the room!

I'm on my way to restoring my soda shader to its former glory... in the CORRECT render pipeline.

Dunno how accurate it'll be to actually viewing these in VRchat, but I'm using that gross super deprecated oculus camera package thing so that I can just slap my headset on to preview these in stereo vision.

[fringe sand]

@spare dagger Nice little trick I've started doing for PBR based avatars. Get Mochie's Uber Shader for free, take the time to learn how to pack the Metallic, Roughness and AO maps into a single texture, and use that in place of individual texture maps so you can take it from three textures plus diffuse and normal down to just one plus diffuse and normal.

[spare dagger]

some of them are actually used to make 3ds Max Materials tho.

in the 2013 version, they use a ramp shader

while also maintaining other things so while it's easy to do in other programs like blender and SFM, they're not very easy to replicate when it comes to porting them to VRChat

3ds max uses different kinds of materials

I simply have to use the ones that are the most logical

[bitter widget]

Set download limit to 30mb. Smooth sailing

[spare dagger]

Five Nights at Freddy's models are complicated

[somber sedge]

hi so i have windows and i would like to add a rain effect on them

[bitter widget]

https://gitlab.com/s-ilent/fake-glass

[somber sedge]

what file type

[bitter widget]

There's literally an "Installation" section of the readme

[spare dagger]

Can anyone make a 3ds Max looking shader for VRChat or at least make a modified version of Mochie's shader for accuracy of the FNAF animatronics? Or is that beyond your guy's expertise?

[ancient wigeon]

3d sbs image shader?

[spare dagger]

What shader is that?

Is there a link to it?

[ancient wigeon]

its something I'm looking for

[spare dagger]

I have no idea buddy

[harsh violet]

Anyone know any good shaders for video game models that I want a look like this.

[uneven loom]

looks like PBR materials with some subsurface scattering for the skin so you could probably cover most of that Avatar with just the standard Shader

[gloomy socket]

yo i'm trying to make a shader that uses the grab pass but in vr it like shows like, both eyes in one eye.
does anyone know how to fix this

[harsh violet]

Really standard would work fine, what about in worlds that have bloom and other kinds of lighting?

[uneven loom]

https://gitlab.com/s-ilent/SCSS/-/wikis/Other/Post-Processing

also probably using the standard Shader

[harsh violet]

That’s pretty cool I’ll test out the standard shader first also do you think the standard shader could get a look similar to Overwatch that mix between realistic and toon or is there a shader capable of getting this

[uneven loom]

that would be all on the model maker to make a model that looks stylized like that

[tired cliff]

This basically. A lot of games achieve a stylized look through the mesh and textures alone, while using more realistic shaders.

Stylized is not the same thing as toon.

[harsh violet]

I never knew that I always thought it was a lighting/shader thing because someone told me that blizzard’s engine had something to do with the look of their models

[thorn moon]

Can someone point me to decent shader with stereo rendering? I'm trying to get render-texture portals working and I've got it cracked for desktop but it's coming out wrong in VR.

[raw echo]

Hey guys, i've dusted off a frosted glass shader i made a while back

however the material doesn't appear in mirrors or cameras at all

is there a way to edit the shader so that it appears correctly?

[main jackal]

The shader menu is grayed out and i cant change it.... How can i fix this

[night knoll]

In the import settings of the avatar's fbx, go to the materials tab and hit "Extract Materials".

Alternatively, you can just create new material assets and apply those manually.

[main jackal]

Got it thanks, i have it fixed now

[spare dagger]

My little rant on accuracy in Unity

Do you guys see this?

[umbral osprey]

Messing around today, made a lil procedural fuzzy shader based off of a plush shark I keep on my desk.

Wow! That looks HORRIBLE on video! Let me just take a screenshot instead.

[uneven loom]

nice

[umbral osprey]

Dunno how to do that weird "shells" technique purely in a shader, but I'll figure it out eventually.

In other words, I'd like some input on what the most EFFICIENT method of generating visibly fuzzy edges on an object is.
Not blurry, not HAIRY, just... fuzzy, like this model someone threw together in blender.

I think it doesn't even HAVE to be shells.

[uneven loom]

very fluffy bird

[ancient wigeon]

looking for a sbs image to 3d shader

[umbral osprey]

https://i.imgur.com/S0i4FEU.png
I have an idea, I'll look into it tomorrow

[jovial charm]

when defining a float array in HLSL, the format is "float1 _ArrayName[NumElements] = {csv items};" correct?

I cant get my shader to compile, though I swear I did this before

ok it just started working

after restarting unity

ok then

[umbral osprey]

If any swollen brains out here can tell me how to stack MULTIPLE outlines on a single object, ping me and I'll check it out in the morning.

I would love to know the best method to make shell fur shaders using purely... well, shaders, and not actually fumbling around with a layered mesh.

And by best, I mean... VR friendly. Very very performance friendly.

[umbral osprey]

https://i.imgur.com/pr3bVri.png
I kinda got what I was trying to do, but I'm gonna look into how to make the outline pick up shadows...

[umbral osprey]

Nvm I got it, I'll fine tune it tomorrow

[thorn moon]

Could someone give me some pointers on how to get a screen cutout shader working in VR? I've got it working fine in desktop to make a portal, but it's severely distorted in VR. I've got the relevant declarations for a VR shader (Initialize stereo vertex output, etc), as far as I know, but it's just not outputting correctly.

[bitter widget]

You're using this on a render texture, right?

[thorn moon]

That's correct.

[bitter widget]

I don't know how well that'd work in VR since your camera for the render texture only will output one eye (the camera itself)

[thorn moon]

I thought it would do both if you tell it to?

[bitter widget]

I'm not too informed about shaders so I don't know for sure

[thorn moon]

That's from a single camera and render texture, so it sure looks like it's trying to do both eyes to me.

[sharp pike]

I don't know what you mean by "initialize stereo vertex output", most of the stuff you need to know about for supporting VR in VRChat is here: https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.4/Documentation/Manual/SinglePassStereoRendering.html

The other useful bits are the names for all the matrices and camera positions for each eye, usually in the case where you need to account for both eyes simultaneously. For example, I use the average eye position when calculating my toon specular highlights because I think it looks better. Most of the names of the built-in stereo variables can be seen in UnityShaderVariables.cginc, e.g. https://github.com/TwoTailsGames/Unity-Built-in-Shaders/blob/master/CGIncludes/UnityShaderVariables.cginc note that when working with them, you'll typically need to surround the code with a check that USING_STEREO_MATRICES is defined, since the variables won't be defined outside of a non-VR environment.

The one thing to note is that mirrors, sadly, do not use stereo rendering.

[thorn moon]

Yeah, I learned that while digging into the mirror shader and scripting to see if there was anything useful there.

[white adder]

Hello! So I've been having this issue a lot recently. When I import my PNGs into Unity, two of the three work, but one of them, (The main body atlas) doesn't show a thumbnail, or allow me to change the import settings. Does anyone know what's been going on? I'd love to know!

[agile totem]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/844595496874016848/927247661873131570/unknown.png

having a major issue with matcaplit

where it would do this instead of applying the correct texture (right)

[loud plinth]

Hi, um i need help with putting poiyomi shaders into unity

[agile totem]

like everything i put turns extremely frikken dark, even toonlit

happens with toonlit too, the mesh looks different at this point

[sharp pike]

Most of the quest shaders multiply the texture by the vertex colours, could be that. You can remove vertex colours in blender or there are some unity scripts around that will let you remove them in unity.

[agile totem]

The white mesh is from a different pc shader tho but ill try thx

[agile totem]

yup thx it was vertex colors, learned how to remove them in blender and the problems gone

frikken hell

[valid coral]

Hey, I'm looking for the name of a type of shader I've seen around before. It renders as a 3D pattern within the bounds of the object you apply it to, but it's fixed in world space, so when you move the object, the pattern, like, "scrolls" through the volume. Does anyone know what incantations I can put into google to learn more about that?

[stiff berry]

sounds like raymarching

[valid coral]

Oh hell yeah that's it, thank you! https://youtu.be/Cp5WWtMoeKg?t=150

(Referencing the video) The demos I've seen involved the cube moving through some kind of volumetric pattern that was fixed in world space, but I think it's the same concept, use an object as a sort of "mask" over some other object.

[stiff berry]

yeah there's a lot of examples of this kinda thing on https://www.shadertoy.com/ but they're in GLSL

Basically to get the fixed in world space thing you change the ray origin to be _WorldSpaceCameraPos and the ray direction to be the view direction

a tutorial for converting them can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzORVWFvZ28

[valid coral]

I just found this guy via this vid, what a great channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8AWd66hoCo

[stiff berry]

yea his channel is a good resource

[thorn moon]

Is there something I need to do with my Unity Project to enable single-pass stereo rendering for world shaders? To my knowledge I just set Project -> Player -> Stereo Rendering Mode to Single Pass, but my shader's not clearing a check of #if SINGLE_PASS_STEREO.

[sharp pike]

It's UNITY_SINGLE_PASS_STEREO. It probably doesn't matter, but I would also advise doing an #ifdef or if defined(UNITY_SINGLE_PASS_STEREO) since its value isn't particularly documented as far as I can see. If it's not something specific to the single pass mode of stereo rendering, you could also instead check if USING_STEREO_MATRICES is defined, since that is defined for each of the different stereo rendering modes.

Setting up the correct stereo rendering settings in Unity is useful if you want to preview how things look with your VR headset from within Unity itself when you enter play mode.

[thorn moon]

Cheers @sharp pike, I figured it had to be something simple I'd missed.

[spare dagger]

I need help with something

Is it possible to make something like Freddy to look as accurate as possible?

With quest shaders?

[bitter pilot]

Using standard lite yeah, and making a metallic and normal map for the textures

[fringe sand]

I'd like some advice on something. I have a model that uses a cubemap texture to produce the eye highlight, is there a shader that allows you to do that properly?

[spare dagger]

if you say so

[thorn moon]

@sharp pike is there something specific in Unity I need to toggle or change for comparable Stereo Rendering in Unity itself? I can't seem to select Right or Both Eyes in the game window.

[silk sierra]

Are there any line art-style shaders current available for VRC? Blender's got a way to emulate one an' I'd like to do the same in-game.

[eager quartz]

Looking for a good shader for a dragon ball character. I tried Silent's Cell Shaded, but the hair got washed out. Poiyomi is great, but takes way too long to compile. Are there any multi-pass shaders like that?

[sharp pike]

Go into Player in the Project settings and drag your choice of OpenVR or Oculus above None in the Virtual Reality SDKs. Then when you go into play mode, unity will start up your VR and the Game window in Unity itself will be VR enabled, letting you change eyes and previewing the scene as if it were VR. It's a bit annoying having your VR start up each time and the main camera gets forced onto your HMD too.
This whole system is deprecated and the newer replacement is meant to be with the XR Plug-in Management in the Project settings. Unfortunately, SinglePassStereo doesn't seem to be supported by it, only Multipass and SinglePassInstanced. You also have to download the Open VR plugin separately if you want to use that.

I get the feeling we're going to have a shader exodus if VRChat updates to Unity 2020 with SinglePassInstanced mode, at least for the random shaders people find on the internet. Stuff like Poiyomi and SCSS will all be fine since they already support instancing.

[thorn moon]

Ahh, that's what I was missing; I didn't realize it was hierarchical.

[long plinth]

for some fucking reason the texture of the face on my avatar is being rendered inverted does anyone have any idea why this may be happening?

nevermind

I fixed it

no actually

that made a different problem

[brittle plinth]

For future reference, that happens when you have an alpha blend material on an object overlapping itself or another object with the same origin location. Fixes are to either not use alpha blend, or make the different sides of the object different meshes at different locations.

[long plinth]

im sorry im really fucking stupid how do i fix that?

[brittle plinth]

What shader are you using?

[long plinth]

i dont really have one settled right now, none of them seem to be working

ik its a unity issue becuase I properly uv mapped my model and it has no problems displaying in blender

[bitter widget]

Or enable ZWrite

[long plinth]

It was the normals it wasn't a shading issue at all

[brittle plinth]

Doesn’t that write based on the mesh origin, not vertex position?

[bitter widget]

It writes based on the depth buffer, which is per pixel

[brittle plinth]

Zwrite draws to the depth buffer, but I'm pretty sure it draws the depth of the object's origin, not the per-pixel or per-vertex depth of the mesh.

[bitter widget]

A memory store that holds the z-value depth of each pixel in an image, where the z-value is the depth for each rendered pixel from the projection plane

From Unity's docs

[bitter widget]

ZWrite off

ZWrite on

This is for a transparent Poiyomi shader, all one single mesh

[brittle plinth]

Huh

[orchid cobalt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSisWCLqgwE Check out my Epic! shader Video and i also do voices 😉

[pearl root]

Where can I find the amplify nodes for audio link?

[raw echo]

Hey all

last time i was working with unity i was using shadeforge for visual shader creating, but its since been deprecated

is there any other node-based shader plugin that is compatible with vrchat?

[undone hound]

i know of amplify shader editor

[valid coral]

What is the best way to get a depth map from a different camera as an input to my shader? I have a directional light and an orthographic camera set up to define "the silhouette of a mountain" and I want to render some volumetric lighting outside that shadow. My plan is to raymarch out from the player's camera, and use a depth texture from the "shadow camera" to determine whether the ray point is in sunlight or not.

I can rig up a render texture and call Camera.RenderWithShader with a custom depth shader, and then pass that render texture into my volumetric lighting shader on my main camera, but maybe there's an easier way?

CustomRenderTexture seems like it might be helpful here... I actually might write my own depth shader anyway, because then I can pack other information about the sun/silhouette into it in the RGBA channels. I think I want Update Mode=OnLoad... and I'm not sure what the Material field on it does, does that just let me use a custom material on any geometry it tries to render? 🤔 (just thinking out loud)

Oh, no, never mind, customrendertexture isn't right, I get what that's for now. Seems like RenderWithShader is the way.

[valid coral]

Progress! 😄 Here's my depth buffer in case anyone's interested, the red channel is the depth buffer of the front faces, and the green channel is the depth buffer of the back faces. So later I'll be able to tell how thick things are too.

[robust fable]

I know theres a shader for avatars that when one touches it it moves around anyone know the name or even have it?

[hardy arrow]

I have a question: my avatar has a material on the body that I want to change color when I speak. I have two shape keys in blender, one for each color (basis is 1 color, Speak is second color). I'm trying to make this work in unity now, and I'm getting lost trying to figure it out.
I've heard to use animator states, but I'm not sure where to start
am I on the right track?
(Edit: Posting in a couple channels, not sure what category this falls under and who can help me)

[thorn moon]

Use the Visemes parameter to drive the animation and put the animation in the FX Layer animator

[solar pine]

So I found this one avatar that has a dance emote that when activated creates an AOE shader that changes the color and lights anyone near by sees (ie. high contrast and flashing colors). Does anyone know of any tutorials/documentation or how to do such a thing, as I'd like to create an emote for my own avatar with something similar if possible, but less flashy.

[upbeat portal]

how do i change it from standard

[cold laurel]

Anyone know where to get/how to make shaders like these that have the really bright sparkles? 💖 (Avatar found in Nony's Avatar World)

[past pewter]

Why does it look like this when I test it?

[torn zinc]

what shader are you using

[past pewter]

Uh

None ?

I installed nothing

only sdks

[pine venture]

Unlit shaders give the illusion of brightness

It also may be a particle

[cold laurel]

It looks to me like you're using the wrong texture for the walls/ceiling?

[cold laurel]

Okay, thanks ^^!

[past pewter]

The sun was not static, thstas all

[cold laurel]

Not sure what that means but sounds like you've got it figured out, in which case, congrats! ^^

[jaunty night]

Quick Question: What is the shader that VRChat uses when shaders are disabled?

[brittle plinth]

That's determined by the shader fallback system, isn't it?

[bitter bane]

it's supposed to be set up by whoever creates the shader, otherwise it does a best guess fallback

https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/shader-fallback-system

[agile totem]

goddammit i still didnt find the magic word to make matcaplit not see thru

[agile totem]

making progress, this is what it currently looks like, it seems to be related to the render queue

fixed it

3000 seems to be a good value

the default ones dont cut it and let light / shadows through

[agile totem]

@grizzled plover try this

[fossil owl]

Hey there 🙂 question please: so, I have a few awesome shaders that work on PC, but they don't seem to work on Quest. Which is of course understandable. HOWEVER the weird thing is, these shaders DO show up in Quest in the reflection of VRC Mirrors. So this implies that maybe there is a way to make them visible in Quest after all? 🤞🏻

[true kernel]

thats def not right, if you can reproduce it then you should report it as a bug.

[leaden tartan]

Are u talking about shaders on avatars or shaders in a world? Because you can upload unsupported shaders for quest worlds but not avatars though certain types of shaders will break or cause issues, such as geometry shaders or grabpass. Would have to see what you're talking about tho, can't think of a way this would be possible as described.

[last nexus]

That’s a typical example of shader not supporting Single Pass Instancing (multiview). You might need to ask the shader author to fix it since it’s a bit technical

[low root]

i cant seem to figure out how to get the particles on my avatar to render properly on quest. none of the options in the menu pictured seem to work, is it a shader issue?

[pine venture]

Its likely the shader on the material you are using

You have to use a supported Quest material for them to be able to see it 9/10 times

[low root]

its set to vrchat/mobile/particles/additive. if i recall correctly alpha blended aand multiply didnt work either but im going to test them again

[leaden tartan]

Those only work in worlds. Need to use standard lite, matcap, or something that isn't transparent. Alpha blended, additive, etc. Are for worlds, not avatars now a days.

[low root]

all of those shaders break the particle system

[leaden tartan]

Then I'd suspect the issue is something else with the setup. Also note quest shaders cull the back face so you need to ensure the front face is facing the viewer or you'd see nothing. May want to try using a mesh instead of billboard as well but need to keep numbers low. Could be a lot of things. Pretty much all of the mobile shaders should work, but iirc transparency on avatars for quest no longer works and just uses a fallback, with transparency only working in world content. Good luck

[low root]

hmm alright thanks

[fossil owl]

Great to know, thank you!

[fossil owl]

Yeah it's crazy. Specifically, it's the last 30 seconds of Club gumball. When those giant rainbow shards come out and they're pulsing to the beat of the music. You can't see them at all. But when you look down at the mirror at your feet you can see them in the reflection

[zealous sedge]

is there an up to date fur shader I can use for carpets, or is it still poiyomi

[hollow tusk]

Can someone help me figure out how to fix this issue. the avatars textures are .dds textures. I was able to import the 3d model into blender and now i'm just trying to apply the textures and normal maps but they're coming out weird. This is what they look like setup the way a texture should normally be setup.

It's like they're doing the opposite.

and this is the texture for the eye lashes. It's different then most textures i've used for hair. It doesn't have a transparent background.

here's the normal map for it.

[sharp pike]

The Color Space for normal maps needs to be set to "Non-Color" since the image data is used directly as opposed to the colours of the image.

[hollow tusk]

I will try that

[sharp pike]

Also, if you're rendering with Eevee or looking at the material preview, if you want to use alpha, you'll need to change the Blend Mode of the material, since the default is Opaque.

[hollow tusk]

I'll check that too. Thanks for the info. I'll let you know if it works.

[hollow tusk]

Ok. I was able to get it. Thanks for the help. I changed the blend mode of the normal map to alpha clip and it worked. Hopefully i can transfer this into unity. Just got to find a decent shader. I was just checking in blender to make sure it works because i was having trouble with the hair for another model.

[sweet ether]

hi, is it okay to ask where I could get a certain shader in here? I've seen it around but I have no idea where to find it

[bitter widget]

This can be achieved using Poiyomi and using Parallax or Panosphere

[sweet ether]

i'll look into it, thank you

[agile totem]

Sth tells me matcaplit can do the same

[bitter widget]

Matcap can do something similar but not exactly the same

This effect I see in the pic looks more like Parallax

[agile totem]

you could still use it as a fallback or for quest

a matcapped galaxy looks a lil bit stretched at some angles but cool

[valid coral]

Does Poiyomi still display if people have shaders blocked? Or if not what does it use for a fallback?

[agile totem]

the one you setup in the .cs

[agile totem]

did it ever do that?

[valid coral]

No idea! That's why I was asking

[agile totem]

I have NEVER seen a shader that does that

Theyd always fallback to rather broken or default ones

[valid coral]

Well I wasn't sure, since it seems really popular, if maybe VRC made an exception the way they do with the standard shaders. But it sounds like the answer is no. Thanks! 🙂

[agile totem]

You should ask in the pyomi discord. Afaik pyomi sets default textures and it would fallback to them. So at least not a rankcolor (eg whole avatar green)

[bitter widget]

They should be less broken now, as a recent update made materials copy over to standard properly

[raw echo]

Hey all, sorry if this is a recurring problem but its really hard to search for

i'm using transfer attributes/transfer data to get floating hair card geometry normals to match the base mesh

however on loading in VRC theres still a visible seam where the surfaces meet

In editor

In-engine

Is there a setting i'm missing or a known fix for this?

[sharp pike]

Are they in different meshes? If you have multiple meshes and they need to receive the same baked lighting and reflection probes, you need to set the anchor overrides of those multiple meshes to the same Transform as one another otherwise they will do their sampling from different places.

[raw echo]

Aha! Thank you so much!

[raw echo]

https://twitter.com/poiyomi/status/1206348684922937345?t=1fKF-51rUeexfUp0K8U5wA&s=19

poiyomi (@poiyomi)

If you have 2+ skinned meshes and you want them to have the exact same lighting you can force them to calculate lighting from the same position by dragging the spine(or any bone) into anchor override. This will force both meshes to sample lighting from the same location

Twitter · Dec 15, 2019, 11:01 PM

Is this what you mean?

[sharp pike]

yes

[raw echo]

Awesome!

Thank you so much for your help

[last laurel]

anyone know what shaders were used on the hands?

[velvet sorrel]

My shader can do that, check out Crosstone!

[knotty iris]

I'm building something that uses flipbook animation for visemes and expressions
Does anyone know of a better workflow for generating texture2darrays than creating a new one every edit?

[devout shell]

Hey I've seen a lot of avatars of anime characters that kind of have some sort of black outline and when I look inside of the avatars that have this instead of being clear they have the same black outline on the inside how do I do that. Sorry if I'm not explaing this well I'm relatively new to avatar creation

Some people have called it toon shading from what I've heard but i know that the toon lit shader dosent do that so is there an extra step

[last laurel]

I tried it but it just turned pink and created errors in the consol

[quick totem]

anyone got a shader that could recreate this?

[spare dagger]

I keep getting these errors on my Unity Project here

hold on

https://gyazo.com/65e9c0d1ec595618401f1059c5fcaca0

this

how do I fix it?

how do I fix this issue?

[rustic umbra]

try reimporting shaders

[spare dagger]

I'm trying that

still nothing

hold on while I figure something out

I'm currently reimporting the stuff as we speak

[valid coral]

@spare dagger I'm not totally sure on this, but you might need to restart unity. That error means it wasn't able to find System.Drawing, which it seems might not be available in Unity by default, but Mochie imports it here: https://github.com/MochiesCode/Mochies-Unity-Shaders/blob/master/csc.rsp

But I don't know when those imports are evaluated, it might only happen when the project is first opened.

[rustic umbra]

We already fixed it

[spare dagger]

yeah

we already did

[spare dagger]

I have a question

how do I fix the shadows of the lights I imported?

you know, this?

[outer sphinx]

How do I fix this text to not be seen through the walls?

[spare dagger]

I'm still having trouble with the lighting

[outer sphinx]

nvm turned on culling

[spare dagger]

nvm figured it out

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/920659446487711744/932371597174644796/Screenshot_266.png

[hollow tusk]

Any recommended settings for realistic skin shader settings. I'm using poiyomi.

This is what i have so far.

[uneven loom]

out of curiosity is there a particular reason you're using poiyomi on a realistic Avatar

[hollow tusk]

That's what i was recommended a while ago for a nathan drake avatar i did. Is there a better shader you recommend? I don't know of a lot. I wouldn't mind using something that is better. This is a wrestling game character.

[uneven loom]

honestly just be Unity standard Shader would do you fine as you don't have any special effects that actually utilize poiyomi

[hollow tusk]

I'll try it out and see how it looks then.

[hollow tusk]

Do you happen to know how I would do the same thing that was done in blender in unity? The eyelashes for my character are just black shapes. You told me set the normal to non color. Is that possible in unity using poiyomi on the regular unity shader.

[uneven loom]

you need to turn on transparency on your Shader

https://i.gyazo.com/e02c1e685a84fc4038ec14656659e240.png

[hollow tusk]

That didn't work. with either shader

[uneven loom]

I suppose you need to click on the texture for the eyebrows and tell it to be transparent

https://i.gyazo.com/bf8d8fdde441a3cda5188050168111f8.png

[hollow tusk]

Nope. that's not working for me. It got close. but it was because i turned the normal map into a default texture and did transparency. but i still had the polygon shaped eyelashes. and it didn't like that the normal map wasn't a normal map. I tried it for both in different combinations

This is what the eyelash textures look like. I was able to make it look right in blender.