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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 inabilit...

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.&nb...

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 ...

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 Dra...

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, ...

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 f...

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 2021-03-08 11:35:27 +0000 UTC View Post

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. 2021-02-11 13:14:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Interactive Ground Fog - FILES

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

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 c...

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 ...

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 elemen...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...