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Why don’t you use URP for non-realistic rendering?

@@pixtrick my project is already being made in HDRP. I'd like to add something like this into my game

@@JayPatel-t7z All right. It is definitely possible to use this shader in HDRP, but you would have to remake the custom function node retrieving the light direction. It's not a big deal since I'm pretty sure there is a main light direction node, but you would not be able to use casted shadows

Thanks a lot! It is one of the topics I want to cover, so stay tuned!

Sure! Change the step node after the dot product by a smoothstep one and you'll have it

Thanks! It is possible indeed. An easy way would be using the same texture for every object of the scene as well as modifying the space of the texture, making it screen space. If you really want to make it as a post-process, it would be much more complicated, as you would need to "mark" every shadow pixel before drawing them with a texture. I think this is possible to modify the base shadowmap shader in order to do this, but i have never tried that. Maybe a topic for another video? Who knows ;)

@@pixtrick Thank you so much!

That’s wonderful! I'd be glad to see it! I will continue posting, I just haven’t got the time for now

Hi! Does it turn purple only when you try applying a texture?

Yeah, it is quite difficult to grasp. Glad you got it working though!

@@pixtrick mostly, but I realize this doesn't completely work for my use-case. I need to make a hole in an object, but only if the "hole creator" object is actually visible, i.e. not occluded. With you example, the "hole creator" can be behind the object (occluded) and it will still make that part invisible.

You would have to use the depth buffer on top of the stencil buffer for that. You can dm me on discord if you want to talk more about it

Thanks a lot!

I will !

Je ne m'en déferai jamais de celui-là ;) Merci beaucoup, ça me touche !

I didn't use DistanceAtten indeed About the normal map, you should add a texture for the normal map, then multiply the output of the texture sample 2D node with the normal vector, and use the result instead of just the normal vector for the dot product with the light Hope that makes sense

Patience mate! I'm a bit overwhelmed these last months but I will definitely make the sequel in the future

Only great questions here! About the layers, you can use materials that have stencil behaviours for the objects in the cube without having to modify their layer indeed. The drawback of this method is that you have to create a custom shader for these objects so that you can customise their stencil behaviour. You wouldn't be able to use any material for these objects, whereas you can with the layer method. About the mask shader: yes, Comp Never / Fail Replace is a great method for making an invisible mask. However, it won't draw at all, so it won't write into the depth buffer. It could be annoying for some edge cases, but for I tend to prefer that approach too. You don't need ZWrite Off or Blend Zero One with that technique, I find that quite elegant. About your last question, I partially answered it before but just to clarify: if a pixel fails the stencil test, it is not rendered. If it is not rendered, it cannot write into the depth buffer. Hope that helps!

@@pixtrick Amazing! Thank you

If you want to see through the hole, yes it could be useful. However, most games use decals for that, which is basically slapping a bullet impact texture on a wall. Still, I would be curious to see that! That's kind of a good idea :)

It is my pleasure!

This shader works only for opaque rendering, it does not handle the transparency unfortunately ... It would be something to dig in if I would remake this shader

@@pixtrick i know that but if is possible to make the shadow to have lighter color's and add objects that only have shadow I'm probably able to make the system i wand to make.

That's good news!

Hey ! Thanks ! Yes it's my bad actually, I should do an updated version of this tutorial since it's quite old now. It's due to the order in the operations, I posted a fix last week on the GitHub repository if you want to take a look !

Not sure, but all the tests I've made so far point to the fact it is not

Hey ! You can check the pinned comment, maybe it would solve your problem

@@pixtrick I found the problem I was not using URP T_T Anyways awesome video and I appreciate the response!

@@JeebZ-3D happens x)

Don't hesitate to message me on discord if you need anything

Hey ! Have you also imported the .hlsl file that was provided in the files ?

​@@pixtrick Yea I did

Can you contact me on discord? It would be easier to understand your issue

I'm still doing it today 😭

You're flattering me x)

Thanks a lot ! :D

Thanks a lot !

Thanks ! I'll try to post it as soon as possible

Absolutely, that was just an example, it's totally up to you to improve this ;) In this case what you would do instead is disabling the collision between the 2 colliders basically

What unity version are you using ?

2022.3.17f1@@pixtrick

You have to make sure that the depth priming is off, and I'm not entirely sure but I think setting the rendering path to forward can help as well

@@pixtrick yes it is disabled and the rendering path to forward, I tried different depth texture modes as well. I'll try to isolate the problem by making a new project and make some test and I'll come back to you.

@@TheGameLecturer all right ! By the way you can message me on discord if you prefer

Hey, I'm not very sure about that, you should try ! In any case, if the render features are not available, you can still use the stencil buffer through custom shaders

It is indeed possible, but you won't have access to the render features. Basically, the URP allows a per-layer rendering with its render features (so you don't have to worry about the materials of each object of the layer), whereas the built-in RP don't, so you'll have to write custom shaders to get the same result, it's a bit harder but 100% doable in my opinion.

@@pixtrick thanks for the response! I finally succeeded! I think the hardest part was that i used Amplify and its stencil buffer parameters were some time buggy 😅 But you're explanation was really great and help me find the way!!

Unfortunately no, shader graph doesn't support the stencil buffer

Hey ! You just have to use a render feature then. Basically, instead of using a shader for the mask material, you just have to create a render feature with a Never stencil comparison operation, so that it won't show on screen. You can use any material you want for that mask then since it won't show on screen at all. EDIT : I forgot to mention that after doing that, you'll have to use the Fail operation instead of the Pass operation, because the comparison operation will always be false, so that the Pass operation will never trigger.

Hmm, yeah, I just can't seem to figure it out. I was trying to make something for the Apple Vision Pro but you can't use normal shaders, you can only use shader graph (or other node based shading methods), because they use MaterialX which requires node based shading. Thanks for your help though! Appreciate you taking the time to respond.@@pixtrick

@@helikaon00 I struggled with the same thing and got it to work. I don't know if it will work for you or anyone else reading, but this is what I did: - Make sure that the culling mask dropdown menu of your main camera has both your walls layer and your occlusion object layer checked - Make sure the proper render pipeline asset (the one you have the stencil on) is set in the quality section of project settings - Make sure that in the "Filtering" section of the render pipeline asset inspector window, the Opaque Layer Mask dropdown has both your walls layer and your occlusion layer UNchecked - On the render feature for the walls, set Event to AfterRenderingOpaques, set the layer mask to your walls layer, enable Stencil and set its value to 1, and then go "Not Equal, Keep, Keep, Keep" for the next four dropdown menus, in that order from top to bottom. - On the render feature for the obscuring object, set Event to BeforeRenderingOpaques, set the layer mask to your obscuring object layer, enable Stencil and set its value to 1, and then go "Never, Keep, Replace, Keep" for the next four dropdown menus, in that order from top to bottom. Lastly, in case anyone wants this to only work when behind a wall, not in front, give your obscuring object a new script. Have it fire a raycast from itself to the main camera every frame. If the raycast is obstructed by any object in the wall layer, change it's scale to whatever size you want. Otherwise, change its scale to 0. I'm not a professional at this, I figured this out through trial and error. So if it doesn't work for you, I'm really sorry but I have no clue how to fix this. I just hate when people post "I figured it out" and don't say how, so hopefully this helps someone.

Decals are not compatible with the stencil buffer, or at least I haven't find a way to make them work together yet. We discussed about it on the discord server of the community but didn't find a solution ... Regarding SSAO, I'm not entirely sure why it doesn't work as intended ... It may be either the AfterRenderingOpaques event queue or simply because objects rendered through a render feature are not considered as "real" geometries

Thanks for the kind words ! :D