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I think I must just have found the answer to this. Multiply the Vertex Normal (input node type) by my displacement value (grey scale texture) and wire in to Local Vertex Offset. No need to use Local Vertex Normal?

Seems to look ok.

Hi

Can someone give me a quick explanation of how Vertex Normal on the Shader is used. I guess I'm trying to understand how the pixel values from a texture are used determine normal direction. I've hunted around the wiki docs and not found much. I'm trying to get my mesh to displace relative to ...

OK. I'll email the materials with a link to this thread. Thanks!

Unity 5.6.2f1
ASE 1.1.0

Shader Code Generated:

(I notice the smoothness colour is set to something other than zero (in the editor it's black). Could this be the issue?

// Made with Amplify Shader Editor
// Available at the Unity Asset Store - http://u3d.as/y3X
Shader "Vindex/Cell-Billboard ...

I've been working on a simple shader that uses transparency (blend mode) and the spherical billboard rendering options. I've noticed that as soon as you select billboard metallic and smoothness textures or colours are ignored (basically things appear to go metallic / shiny).

Is this a bug? Real ...