Edit - - My bad, I wrote that whole thing not realizing the fella above me said the same thing, lol.
Hey there,
Have you guys looked into Jason Booth's "Better Shaders"? From what I understand, he wrote a new shader framework in which you write a shader once and it automatically creates the standard, URP, and HDRP shaders, without all of the "what the??" that the current SRP shader system has.
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/to...drp-187838
I am no shader expert, so I don't know if Obi's shaders count as "surface shaders", but it does say this:
"If you've ever looked at the source to an HDRP shader graph shader and thought "12,000 lines of shader code, for a shader that just has a simple texture? What is all this?" then this is the asset for you. You can easily port Surface Shaders to Better shaders in minutes, and then use those shaders in any render pipeline. Code is written in standard HLSL, with a unified API across all 3 render pipelines, so you can write code and not worry about compatibility anymore. "
I do know that a few assets, such as Vegetation Studio Pro, are coming out with new updates that are going to be using this framework for their shaders, and I hear nothing but good things. Perhaps it might be of use?
I bought Obi Fluid over a year ago in hopes to be able to use it in my HDRP project instead of having to try and do blood in Houdini, export to Alembic, try and get things lined up so that it lands where it needs to land, etc. It has been a *huge* PITA. I would love for the HDRP version to come out! I see that it at least sort of renders now, there Is just no color for me. So fingers crossed it is fairly soonish. : )
Thanks,
-MH
Hey there,
Have you guys looked into Jason Booth's "Better Shaders"? From what I understand, he wrote a new shader framework in which you write a shader once and it automatically creates the standard, URP, and HDRP shaders, without all of the "what the??" that the current SRP shader system has.
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/to...drp-187838
I am no shader expert, so I don't know if Obi's shaders count as "surface shaders", but it does say this:
"If you've ever looked at the source to an HDRP shader graph shader and thought "12,000 lines of shader code, for a shader that just has a simple texture? What is all this?" then this is the asset for you. You can easily port Surface Shaders to Better shaders in minutes, and then use those shaders in any render pipeline. Code is written in standard HLSL, with a unified API across all 3 render pipelines, so you can write code and not worry about compatibility anymore. "
I do know that a few assets, such as Vegetation Studio Pro, are coming out with new updates that are going to be using this framework for their shaders, and I hear nothing but good things. Perhaps it might be of use?
I bought Obi Fluid over a year ago in hopes to be able to use it in my HDRP project instead of having to try and do blood in Houdini, export to Alembic, try and get things lined up so that it lands where it needs to land, etc. It has been a *huge* PITA. I would love for the HDRP version to come out! I see that it at least sort of renders now, there Is just no color for me. So fingers crossed it is fairly soonish. : )
Thanks,
-MH