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Update about No Updates.

It's been quite a few months now with little to no updates. I'm sorry about that.

It's a combination of things, none of them individually overwhelming but all of them adding up to my inability to create new content.

I started this patreon as a way to help me fund and create my own gam...

Soft Area Lights - FILES

A small and simple little tweak to custom lighting on a shader. It ignores the normals near to the light source to create a soft bleed-through effect, like a directionless subsurface scattering. 

2022-02-08 02:11:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Interactive Waterfall - FILES

Here's an easy way to make an interactive waterfall, by rendering particles to a render texture via an orthographic projection that's aligned with the waterfall surface. These particles define the negative space part of the waterfall - the gaps created by the objects blocking the...

DrawMeshInstancedIndirect - FILES

PSA: I'm not super familiar with any of this, so there might be incorrect assumptions and mistakes, if so, sorry, I'll correct them as I learn more!

I've been playing around with DrawMeshInstancedIndirect, which is like the souped-up version of DrawMeshInstance, in that it's not li...

SDF Shader - Cutaway effect - FILES

Here's a little script and some shader functions that let you write out an object's transformation matrix and then read it as a Signed Distance Field (SDF) in a shader.

I've included 3 SDFs, a basic sphere, a rounded box with adjustable roundness, and a capsule. They can be freely moved, ro...

Quads to Billboards - FILES (Free)

I stumbled upon this really clever shader trick from Pontus Karlsson, where he pushes the verts of a quad mesh into camera facing billboards. You can watch the video of it 2021-04-26 02:57:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Atmospheric Scattering Fog + Blur Masking - FILES

Here's a maskable blur effect that you can use in a variety of ways. It's done the same way the blur on the refractive rain shader (from here https://www.patreon.com/posts/rain-shader-with-32056295),...

Environment Interaction Updated - FILES

This is pretty much the same as the previous Environment Interaction asset, now cleaned up, a bit easier to use, and updated with a few extra things that I've added in since I made the original.

The main visible addition is the grass swaying on the ground trail. The trail now wobbl...

Interactive Ground Fog - FILES

I was recently reminded about the cool ground fog in Mario Odyssey by this tweet https://twitter.com/Patrickd3/status/1351245697845239809

I'd always wanted to give it a try, and then I realised...

Fog of War via Render Texture - FILES

Repurposing the Environmental Interaction render texture camera to create a Fog of War effect.

The G channel is "full fog" (unexplored areas), and the R channel is "semi fog" (explored, but currently unobserved areas). You can mark areas as covered by the fog using the special Fog of War Qu...

Blood Steam using a particle ribbon - FILES

The in-built Particle Ribbons are pretty limited to create this effect, and a few workarounds have to be done to get it functional, but it works well enough for a quick one-off. To take it further I'd want to generate my own mesh, to allow the ribbon to split into multiple ribbons when the points...

Magic Sword Particles - FILES

A simple way to make particles spawn on a weapon and leave a trail behind, plus a few fun particle shader variations for magic weapons - because sharp steel isn't deadly enough, it has to do elemental damage as well.

We want the weapon to leave a trail of particles behind when it's moved. B...

Bubble Popping - FILES (free)

Here's a fun little bubble popping shader that works on particles. Good for mud, lava, or other bubble forming liquids.

The bubble popping part is all done with opacity clip and vertex offset - I've made a quick toon-lite version as an example, but you can create your own colour variations ...

Render Texture Feedback - FILES

Ever since seeing the cool explosions in Remedy's Control, when you pop the "Hiss" off a possessed enemy, I've been wanting to play with adding more feedback build-up into my shaders.

Here is the my initial playing around with implementing a basic feedback loop that I put together a while a...

Mesh Lights - WRITE UP

I wanted to go over some of the basics of how the mesh lights are put together, and some additions and fixes I've stumbled upon recently.

The above gif is from some lighting tests I'm doing for a project I'm working on that's going to probably be implementing these mesh lights. You can see...

The next few months of Patreon: Shaders to Swords.

Hello!

The type of content I’ll be producing for patreon will likely change over the next few months, from almost entirely (100%) shaders and effects, to other game assets, such as 3d models, textures and perhaps some animations too. Still with a focus on non-photorealist...

Fake Lights 2. Cube Volume Projection - FILES

I thought it would be a good idea to explore a few more simple variations of the mesh lights from the previous post. These ones don't use N.L light direction, so they're more like volume projection than a different way to do lighting. I've put them all on a rounded cube volume for these examples,...

Mesh Lights with Texture Projection - FILES

I've added some basic texture projection into the fake mesh light shader. It can now project a cubemap texture or 2d texture spherically around it. The 2d mapping will need tweaking if you need it to visually match the emitter sphere, depending on how you've uv mapped that.

2020-10-13 01:08:40 +0000 UTC View Post

Fake Billboard Lights - FILES

I've been wanting to make this one for a while - instead of using point lights, this shader fakes it with a billboard quad and calculates all the lighting manually using the Normals and Depth information in the _CameraDepthNormalsTexture render texture. You'll need to make sure y...

Toon Lighting Basics

I thought it would be a good idea to write up some of the basics of Toon Lighting for anybody that isn't familiar with it. There are heaps of ways to approach this, depending on your rendering pipeline and the style you're going for, this is just one simple way that I enjoy playing with.

2020-09-15 09:07:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Important info about changes and expectations.

Hello everybody! You might have noticed that I've been absent for the last 2 months and paused the patreon in that time. I'm sorry I haven't been as active as I'd like to be with new content and help on the discord.

I've had a bunch of non work related things on my plate, but I'm hoping tha...

Smudgy Pixelization Post Process - FILES

I'm back after a short break in which I focused on health and family and all things that aren't shaders. So I'm easing back into it with a smudgy depth-based pixelization shader I've been wanting to make for a while.

It blends between 3 levels of pixelization so objects closer to you are mo...

Patreon Pausing

Hello everyone.

Things have gotten a bit busy at the moment, and I haven't been able to spend the time I've wanted to on working on Patreon posts recently, so I'm putting a pause on payments for the next billing cycle.

What this means is you won't get charged on August 1st 2020-07-13 03:13:28 +0000 UTC View Post