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[Reelya]

Well I haven't actually tried to make a custom shader yet, I hadn't needed to until now since all the existing ones have failed for this task.

I have some simple example shaders I downloaded that are meant to do the job, but don't actually render the colors, and I have the code from the Unity shaders that do render the colors, but have tearing in my images, and they are a mass of gibberish that I can't read at all since I have no idea what all the assembly code is doing. So i don't really know where to start here.

[Rose]

This is the shader I'm using for custom colors:

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Shader "Custom/ArmokStandardPBR" {
Properties {
_Color ("Color", Color) = (1,1,1,1)
_MainTex ("Albedo (RGB)", 2D) = "grey" {}
_BumpMap ("Normalmap (RGB) Occlusion (A)", 2D) = "bump" {}
}
SubShader {
Tags { "RenderType"="Opaque" }
LOD 200

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

// Use shader model 3.0 target, to get nicer looking lighting
#pragma target 3.0

sampler2D _MainTex;
sampler2D _Shapetex;
sampler2D _BumpMap;

struct Input {
float2 uv_MainTex;
float2 uv2_BumpMap;
float4 color: Color; // Vertex color
};

half _Glossiness;
fixed4 _Color;

void surf (Input IN, inout SurfaceOutputStandard o) {
// Albedo comes from a texture tinted by color
fixed4 c = tex2D (_MainTex, IN.uv_MainTex) * _Color;
fixed4 b = tex2D (_BumpMap, IN.uv2_BumpMap);
//o.Albedo = c.rgb * IN.color.rgb;
o.Albedo = c.rgb < 0.5 ? (2.0 * c.rgb * IN.color.rgb) : (1.0 - 2.0 * (1.0 - c.rgb) * (1.0 - IN.color.rgb));
o.Metallic = 1.0 - IN.color.a;
o.Smoothness = b.b;
o.Occlusion = b.r;
o.Normal = UnpackNormal(b.ggga);
o.Alpha = c.a;
}
ENDCG
}
FallBack "Diffuse"
}
It's very customized for my purposes, but it does work.

[Reelya]

My terrain is still brown when I use that. I can only get the colors appearing with a number of Unity's shaders.

Maybe I an doing something wrong when I am specifying the vertex colors somehow?

I'm creating a standard Mesh, then creating vertices, uv, triangles and color arrays, and linking them all to the mesh. Mind you I only started working on this at 1am last night.

[Rose]

Are you using your own mesh, or a unity terrain?

and I wasn't suggesting you use that shader specifically, I was just giving an example.

For this shader to work, you need the diffuse map to be close to grey, and the vertex color alpha channel changes metalness.

[Reelya]

I'm using a mesh I'm generating in code, then attaching this to the MeshFilter component. 99.9% of it is working fine except for the colors thing, which is only working for a select few Unity filters, which are glitchy. Every custom shader I've tried so far gives the same results: my terrain renders fine, with lighting etc, but no vertex colors appearing.

So, I'm using the colors32 structure since this was suggested as more efficient, and I know for a fact that the colors are getting into the pipeline, but I have no idea why it's not working for shaders that say it should work.

[Rose]

You mentioned that it's appearing brown. What texture is going into the diffuse slot?

[Reelya]

Well that was a grainy light brown sand I was using as a sort of bump map.

But it seems I've found a shader I can use after clicking a lot of random links from other links.

"ColorMaterial AmbientAndDiffuse" was the bit the other examples were missing. After creating a simple shader with that as the only instruction, I now how the vertex colors appearing, no tearing or depth problems anymore. So that fixes one problem. Now I just need to add back in control of lighting and texture overlay and it's done.

EDIT: And because I found "ColorMaterial AmbientAndDiffuse" I can now google that term thank god, and it's linking me to the other stuff I need to know. It turns out that the whole shebang was in Unity under "ShaderLab: Legacy Lighting"

Ok, I'm done with the basic experiment now, i have vertex color, lighting and detail texture all combining. It's still kind of ugly, but here's the screenshot:

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[LoSboccacc]

anyone here still playing screeps? I backed it but it turned out too braniac to play and I have a shortage of time, so first to pm me will get my cpu coupon kthnxby
Coupon gone!

oh, and I did my very first open source thingy! https://cdn.rawgit.com/lookcast/Glitter.js/master/index.html

[Gatleos]

I just spent about 15 minutes typing up a question to ask in this thread, stopping after every assertion I made in my description of the problem when I realized it might not be true, testing the assertion, narrowing down my idea of the problem as a result, and then deleting that part of the post. I deleted the entire post this way and answered my own question.

I think I'll add "write fake forum post" to my list of debug tools now.

[Reelya]

anyone here still playing screeps? I backed it but it turned out too braniac to play and I have a shortage of time, so first to pm me will get my cpu coupon kthnxby
Coupon gone!

oh, and I did my very first open source thingy! https://cdn.rawgit.com/lookcast/Glitter.js/master/index.html

The library supports tons of cool looping and timing options that user go crrrraaaazy for

"user" should be plural.

Other than that, that's some nice tech there.

[Skyrunner]

I like the shiny green text.

[Putnam]

i like how it's not ugly as hell

seriously that's actually really impressive

i do not make sarcastic compliments

the previous statement was not sarcastic nor is this one

[Orange Wizard]

$20 says Putnam's being sarcastic.

...

/s

[LoSboccacc]

anyone here still playing screeps? I backed it but it turned out too braniac to play and I have a shortage of time, so first to pm me will get my cpu coupon kthnxby
Coupon gone!

oh, and I did my very first open source thingy! https://cdn.rawgit.com/lookcast/Glitter.js/master/index.html

The library supports tons of cool looping and timing options that user go crrrraaaazy for

"user" should be plural.

Other than that, that's some nice tech there.

thanks! fixed typo it seems to drive all people crazy, also figured out how to support css transform and transitions so there is one more level of coolness:
https://cdn.rawgit.com/lookcast/Glitter.js/62641a5f346faa2894673ecef55dcf7714ba73a8/index.html

[karhell]

I just spent about 15 minutes typing up a question to ask in this thread, stopping after every assertion I made in my description of the problem when I realized it might not be true, testing the assertion, narrowing down my idea of the problem as a result, and then deleting that part of the post. I deleted the entire post this way and answered my own question.

I think I'll add "write fake forum post" to my list of debug tools now.

Explaining your code to an imaginary friend is another way to do that, and works pretty well too.
Glad you solved your problem ^^