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Ciro Continisio edited this page Dec 6, 2020 · 7 revisions

Besides the base shading model to define light/shadow areas, we have a system to add extra functionality to shader that we call "shader add-ons”. We have the base shader (/Shaders/Toon.shadergraph) and, on top of that, we add additional effects in the form of these add-ons.

To drive this, we make big use of Subgraphs in Shader Graph. Shader add-ons are modules that can be added - potentially with other add-ons - to the base shading model (which, by the way, is also encapsulated in a Subgraph found at /Shaders/Subgraphs/ToonLighting.subgraph).

This allows us to have shaders for:

  • Toon
  • Toon + Wind
  • Toon + Wind + Masking + Tinting
  • Toon + Dissolve

... and so on.

To better understand this organisation, see the diagram below and check out the shader /Shaders/Toon_Wind.shadergraph in the project:

Shader Add-ons See this image bigger on the task card in the roadmap

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