Unity Digest: Shaders and Tools for Stylized Art

1. MK Toon - Stylized Shader

Check out a cool stylized shader from Michael Kremmel.  The shader comes with a few tools, including Mesh Utility, Ramp Creator, and Texture Channel Packer.

Key features:

• Physically-based properties available
• Builtin, Cel, Banded, and Ramp modes are available to customize the lighting.
• To style lighting even further, there are three artistic modes available: Drawn, Sketch, and Hatching. Each of them can be projected onto the object in tangent space or screen space.
• Seamlessly integrated normal mapping into the stylized lighting.
• Approximated parallax mapping can be used to enhance normal mapping.
• Sotropic and anisotropic speculars are possible.
• Diffuse: Lambert (default), Oren Nayar(takes the roughness of the surface and the view angle into account.), and Minnaert ( Lighting adds some darkening limbs based on the view angle. Good for things like fabric) diffuse shading is available.
• Two-way occlusion to control the direct and indirect light occlusion.
• Every material can be emissive.
• The Vertex Animation offers three generic animations, which are computed on the shaders side (no additional setup required).
• Customize particles like the default geometry.
• VR and AR compatible.

2. Stylized Grass Shader

Grab a shader for creating beautiful stylized grass for URP from Staggart Creations.

Key features:

• Lush wind animations
• Per object and per vertex color variation, breaks up visual repetition
• Bending and flattening through trails, meshes or particle effects
• Sun light translucency rendering
• Color blending with terrain surface (supports tiled setups and mesh terrains)
• Perspective correction, for optimal coverage when viewed from top-down
• Includes several grass models and textures designed for mass placement.
• Compatible with all URP rendering features
• Physically-based or simple shading mode

3. Low Poly Water GPU

Create low-poly water surfaces with tools from Jolix.

Features:

• GPU wave calculations (no CPU)
• Customizable waves & lighting
• Shore blending (foam)
• Planar reflection (not in VR)
• Light absorption
• Shadow receiving
• Up to 4 point lights
• Custom water mesh
• Optimized & tested on mobile

4. Nodes for Shader Graph

Get a pack with 14 nodes that will simplify your nodes' workflow in the shader graph.

14 Nodes:

• SSS Color
• SSS gradient
• Parallax mapping
• Parallax Mapping iterrations
• Parallax Occlusion Mapping
• Perturbed Normals (World normal with NormalMap)
• Fixed View Direction Tangent
• Create Normal Channel (for individual texture channels)
• Create Normal Float (allows to use procedural noises and stuff to create normals)
• If Node
• Light Direction (in Unity 2019 - only LWRP),
• Light Attenuation (in Unity 2019 - only LWRP)
• Range (procedural shape)
• TilingShape (for convenient tiling shapes).
• SSS node for Amplify shader editor
• Light Attenuation node for Amplify shader editor (works in PBR and unlit shader for LWRP)

5. The Amazing Wireframe Shader

Check out a shader for creating beautiful wireframes fast and easy.

• Details:
• 100% shader effect
• No script rendering (GL.Lines)
• No use of second mesh/camera/material while rendering
• No DX11 required
• Mobile ready
• Single shader pass
• Single draw call
• Quad and Triangle wireframe rendering
• Skinned meshes - YES
• Includes shaders for Mobile, Desktop, VR, Consoles, and WebGL
• Various parameters for Wireframe visualization
• Wireframe distance and dynamic fade effects
• Tessellation and Global illumination support
• Special Wireframe projector shader
• Wireframe Texture Exporter tool