Texture as shadows

[Freitas]

Hi guys,

I would first like to thank you for creating this amazing tool, its so much better then the UE material editor.

So, I'm trying to create the shadow effect from the image below, the edge of the shadow have some kind of texture.




With the shader below I can change the texture shadow, but works only with flat colors.


In one of my attempts, I was able to add another color to the "shadow border/edge" but I forgot to save the graph but was made only using lerps + blends...

I also found this graph from Shader Forge:

And the shader:


I tried to remake the shader above (Shader Forge), like this:


But I got only this on the Unity view, no texture, only white color


I also tried to use the Light Attenuation as a mask and no success

Do u guys have any suggestion on how or if its possible to make this shader or someting close to this using Amplify?

[Amplify_Borba]

Hello!

In order to apply a texture to a shadow, you can use the following node setup as a simple starting point:



Here is a more advanced example, with additional control:



Do note that adjusting shadow appearance is not as straightforward as it might seem, some advanced techniques such as NGSS actually involve replacing Unity's built-in system.

Please let me know if this helps, thanks!

[Freitas]

Hi Borba

I tried your shader, and I cant get the texture to show in the shadows got the same result from one of the graph I posted before. I tested both on a empty scene and as you can see in the image below:



I also tested in another scene, got same result:


Shadow Quality:


But with my old shader, the shadow shows up, atm this is what I have, now I just want to make this.


Do you have some ideia, why the texture is not working/showing up?

Thanks again

[Amplify_Borba]

It might be related to your scene, could you provide us with a simple sample with the issue present so that we may debug it on our side?

Feel free to send it through [email protected] or via WeTransfer, thanks!

[Freitas]

You are right, its some kind of issue with the project, even if I create a new scene in the project, the "shadow texture" dont works.

But when I created a new project the shader works :/



And I just sent the project file to [email protected]

[Amplify_Borba]

Thank you for taking the time to send us a sample!

Upon testing it, the shader seems to be working as intended, although we've noticed that there were no texture set in the material so it was defaulting to white.



Could you confirm on your side if setting textures on the material has the shader work as expected? Thanks!