#ifdef SHADER_TARGET_SURFACE_ANALYSIS in Surface Shader

#ifdef SHADER_TARGET_SURFACE_ANALYSIS
//Codes that Surface Shader should work
#endif

Volumetric shader

note09

playing with this shader

https://github.com/mattatz/unity-volume-rendering/blob/master/Assets/VolumeRendering/Shaders/VolumeRendering.shader

Geometry Shader streams

geom

input : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb509609(v=vs.85).aspx

output : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb509661(v=vs.85).aspx

w component

I have been so confusing about the w component for ages, until I read this:
Explaining Homogeneous Coordinates & Projective Geometry

So I quickly made a simple to shader to test it out:
20170910

To summarize, w component is the

The W dimension is the distance from the projector to the screen(object).

when w > 1, the object looks far (smaller)
when w = 1, the size remains the same
when w = 0, it’s actually covering the whole screen

This is the reason why we have make sure the w component is correct when we are doing _Object2World and _World2Object

Also a interesting point to note from the blog post:

If , then it is a point light. If , then it is a directional light.

(Thanks Kemal for the tutorial links!)

All shader stages

Update: Download this shader here 🙂
TessellationShader

Continue reading “All shader stages” →

Shader Model and features

2.5: derivatives
3.0: 2.5 + interpolators10 + samplelod + fragcoord (also contains fragdepth)
3.5: 3.0 + interpolators15 + mrt4 + + integers + 2darray + instancing
4.0: 3.5 + [mrt8] + geometry
4.5: 3.5 + compute + randomwrite (so it means it has no 4.0 features)
4.6: 4.0 + [cubearray] + tesshw + tessellation (so it means it has no 4.5 features)
5.0: 4.0 + 4.5 + 4.6 + [interpolators32] (it has everything)