Sprite ShaderGraph

[heady charm]

I don’t think so.. I’m creating this thread so we don’t get lost in the middle of other conversations 😅

I’ve read something about using marching squares to create the mesh with the same shape as the texture

[severe kraken]

I don't think you need to go that far. Try using the alpha clipping property

[heady charm]

same same

tried to bump all the way up to 0.8

[severe kraken]

Try setting the shader to opaque in shader setting and only using the alpha clipping.

[heady charm]

It works

the shadow however is a bit strange because of the billboard

[severe kraken]

How strange? Seem normal to me.

[heady charm]

When I rotate the camera there's an angle it is gone

[severe kraken]

The shadow?

[heady charm]

yes

[severe kraken]

Take a screenshot

[heady charm]

I'm billboarding the mesh/renderer

[severe kraken]

You mean when the quad is perpendicular to the light direction?

[heady charm]

yes

[severe kraken]

How is the quad rotated here? Enable gizmos so that we can see...

There's nothing you can do about the shadows disappearing when the quad is perpendicular to the light direction. It's basically a sheet of paper. If you place a sheet of paper perpendicular to the light direction in real life you wouldn't see any shadows either.🤷‍♂️

[heady charm]

gotta go back to work now, lunch time we debug that

yeah, thats true

is there any way i can create a directional light that would only affect those meshes sprites and would rotate with my camera?

[severe kraken]

Sure. lights have a layer mask property that defines what layers they affect. And you can parent it to your camera so that it moves with it.