- Added Unity 2017.3 support.
- Moved "Legacy" and "Mods" into the "Alloy" folder as part of the transition to open-source.
- Updated Substance Designer preview shader to version 2017.2.
- Updated Substance Painter preview shader to version 2017.3.
- Added Unity 2017.2 support.
- Changed "Eye" shaders to add Roughness Source, Cornea Metallic, and Sclera Metallic properties.
- "Property" option which applies just the roughness sliders without the roughness map.
- You may need to manually disable the material map property in your materials.
- Changed "Car Paint" shaders to add a secondary color map mode.
- Changed "Car Paint" shaders to add a Roughness Source dropdown.
- "Property" option which applies just the roughness slider without the roughness map.
- Fixed visualize not applying parent texture transforms to children.
- Fixed "Directional Blend" shaders to stop popping issue between edit and play mode.
- World is now the default mapping mode.
- You must run the Material Migrator tool exactly once to fix existing materials.
- Fixed "TriPlanar" shaders to stop popping issue between edit and play mode.
- World is now the default mapping mode.
- You must run the Material Migrator tool exactly once to fix existing materials.
- Fixed "Vertex Blend" shaders to stop popping issue between edit and play mode.
- World is now the default mapping mode.
- You must run the Material Migrator tool exactly once to fix existing materials.
- Fixed "Deferred Decal Advanced" shader so that:
- The shader actually compiles.
- Base Color and Normals blend sliders work now.
- Surface material type is no longer overwritten.
- Surface shadow masks are no longer overwritten.
- Decal specular occlusion now combines with the surface specular occlusion rather than replacing it.
- Added Unity 2017.1 support.
- Fixed "SpeedTree*" shaders to have Unity-recommended instancing limit.
- Removed LOD_FADE_PERCENTAGE crossfade mode.
- Added Unity 2017.1 support.
- Fixed issue where Unity static Area Lights' scene GUIs were not appearing after installing Alloy.
- Fixed intermittent object reference error for Material Inspector.
- Added HX Volumetric Lighting integration for most particle shaders.
- Excludes "Multiply (Double)" and "Alpha Blended Premultiply".
- Fixed issue where AreaLights needed to update after all other light updates and animation clips had run.
- Added new config option A_USE_BLACK_SPECULAR_COLOR_TOGGLE to allow killing specular lighting per-pixel.
- Useful for RTP integration.
- Changed "Decal/Multiplicative" and "Decal/Ambient" to add missing alpha visualize option on Main Textures Base Color map.
- Completed internal API overhaul.
- Fixed metallic channel not correctly affecting translucent shadows.
- Fixed baked occlusion shadows in injection header shaders.
- Fixed lightmap shadow mixing support.
- Changed Camera inspector to now provide an easy button for adding Alloy Effects Manager components.
- Fixed AreaLight issue where using script to set intensity to zero could cause light to blow out in intensity.
- Removed the "Material Migrator" menu item.
- Improved HX Volumetric Lighting integration with "Decal/Additive" shader.
- Fixed the compiler errors that happened when using new shadow masks mode.
- Fixed issue where baked light occlusion was not being applied to first directional light in forward mode.
- Fixed the issue where the first directional light wasn't rendering in forward mode with lightmaps enabled.
- Fixed issue with packer on first import where it could not detect "_PackerDefinition.asset".
- Added Unity 5.6 support.
- Added "Particles/Anim Alpha Blended" shader.
- Changed "Details*" shaders to have proper Alloy inspectors.
- Changed most shaders to have new controls:
- "Render Queue" for sort order.
- "Enable Instancing" toggle.
- "Specular Highlights" toggle.
- "Glossy Reflections" toggle.
- Changed RenderingModes to work correctly with shader replacement.
- "Cutout" tagged as "TransparentCutout".
- "Fade" tagged as "Transparent".
- "Transparent" tagged as "Transparent".
- Changed SpeedTree GeometryTypes to work correctly with shader replacement.
- "Frond" tagged as "TransparentCutout".
- "Leaf" tagged as "TransparentCutout".
- Fixed CarPaint shaders to have "SpecularTint" property.
- Changed Area Light component menu path to "Alloy/Alloy Area Light".
- Changed Area Lights to work with Unity's light inspectors, including the new "Light Explorer".
- Now uses Unity Light component's color and intensity directly.
- You'll need to manually update your scripts and animation clips to point to the Unity light fields.
- Removed "Animated By Clip" option from AreaLight components.
- Now works with animation clips and third party script tools out of the box.
- You'll need to manually delete references to it from your animation clips.
- Renamed "Alloy Deferred Renderer Plus" component to "Alloy Effects Manager" to clarify its usage.
- Now listed under "Alloy/Alloy Effects Manager" in the component menu.
- Please write down your old settings before doing the update as you may need to re-enter them.
- You may only need to toggle the component to restore its command buffers.
- Added support for "VertExmotion".
- Updated Substance Designer shader to 6.0.
- UV scale support.
- Updated Substance Painter shader to 2.5.
- Specular Level channel support.
- Parallax Mapping support.
- Changed deferred Skin and Transmission to work with single-pass stereo VR rendering.
- Fixed issues with deferred Transmission code that would fail to compile on some platforms.
- Added support for "Vapor" transparency integration.
- Fixed "Tessellation *" shaders target 4.6 warning messages.
- Fixed "Glass *" shaders to support Unity 5.5.
- Includes single-pass stereographic fix.
- Added Unity 5.5 suppport.
- Fixed shadow wind animations on SpeedTree and foliage shaders.
- Fixed "Transmission/TwoSided" shaders' compiler error when they are set to Fade or Transparent mode.
- Optimized the deferred Skin and Transmission effects.
- Added new config flag A_USE_DEFERRED_MATERIAL_TYPE_BRANCHING to toggle optimizations.
- Glass shader distortion is much weaker than expected.
- Added Unity terrain foliage shaders.
- Automatically applied when using Alloy "Terrain *" shaders.
- Changed "Skin" shaders so that the base color now affects transmission correctly.
- Changed most shaders so that LOD crossfade is disabled by default.
- Fixes the batching issue.
- Fixed area light specular highlight distortion in "Forward" Rendering Path.
- Fixed "Glass *" shaders' issue where a zero opacity would cause black voids in reflection probes.
- Fixed SpeedTree Two-Sided lighting.
- Fixed SpeedTree Geometry Type "Fronds" to show "Opacity Cutoff" control.
- Changed "Main Properties", "Secondary Properties", & "Oriented Properties" to add a "Specular Tint" parameter.
- Changed "Specular Tint" to be available in Roughness Source "Packed Map Alpha" mode as well.
- Fixed "Detail" and "Wetness" Mask Strength parameters to only affect the mask.
- Fixed "Rim Emission" faceting for Normals Source "Vertex Normals".
- Changed to be more consistent with the Unity version.
- Fixed issue where opacity was darkening materials in deferred mode.
- Added "Core CrossFade" shader with LOD CrossFade support.
- Added "Skin VertexDetail" shaders with vertex color masking for 3-4 detail normal maps.
- Fixed "Curvature Test" shader.
- Updated "Alloy Deferred Shading UBER" shader to support UBER 1.2.
- Added "Animated by Clip" toggle to the AreaLight component to support Animation Clips.
- Fixed issue where "AlloyRequiredActions.cs" was causing build errors.
- Changed "Material Migrator" to run on the entire project, rather than per-scene.
- Changed "Material Migrator" to fix Normals Source on existing materials.
- Changed "Keyword Report" to "Material Report".
- Changed "Material Report" to add a section for shaders to list their associated materials.
- Changed "Light Migrator" to "Light Converter".
- Fixed "Light Converter" to properly convert the intensity from Unity lights.
- Added config options to set which data is read from which channels in the packed maps.
- Added a "Normals Source" setting to enable/disable normal maps.
- Setting it to "Vertex Normals" enables extensive optimizations to greatly reduce a material's cost.
- Added "Vertex Blend" shader with an optional Alpha splat, and toggleable TriPlanar mapping.
- Add Alpha splat, and set Roughness Source to Base Color Alpha to match the old "Vertex Blend 4Splat" shader.
- Added "SpeedTree (Forward)" shader that is forward-only and supports the full set of Transmission parameters.
- Changed "Skin*" shaders to add Parallax feature.
- Changed "Skin*" shaders and camera components to restore Bias and Scale inputs.
- Changed "Terrain" shaders to support enabling optimizations when no normal maps are used.
- Changed "Vertex Blend" to add AO2, Decal support.
- Changed "Terrain" shaders to support TriPlanar mapping as a toggleable feature.
- Changed "Roughness Source" to be global for the whole shader, and eliminated it in Secondary and Oriented Textures sections.
- Fixed "TriPlanar" and "Oriented" shaders to correctly map textures for shadows and lightmap baking.
- Fixed "Terrain/4Splat" fog in forward mode.
- Renamed "TriPlanar/Full" to "TriPlanar" and modified it to encompass the "TriPlanar/Lite" inputs.
- Added "Wetness" feature to most of the shaders.
- Changed "Detail" to add a "Mask Strength" parameter.
- Moved "Terrain * TriPlanar" shaders into this set.
- Moved "TriPlanar/Lite" shaders into this set.
- Moved "Vertex Blend/4Splat *" shaders into this set.
- Removed "Wetmask/Core" & "Wetmask/Weighted Blend".
- Added support for "Hx Volumetric Lighting" transparency integration.
- Fixed Substance Painter custom shader to not cause rough specular in shadowed areas.
- Updated Substance Painter custom shader to support version 2.2.
NOTE:
- You must run the new Material Migrator tool in each of your scenes to clean up and replace old keywords.
- Open Window->Alloy->Material Migrator.
- After it finishes, hit Ctrl+S.
- Added "Eye" shader that is deferred-compatible and provides fine control of each eye component.
- Added Dithered LOD Cross-fade support to the majority of the shaders.
- Changed "Glass" shaders to support Roughness Source "Base Color Alpha" in their Main Textures.
- Changed "SpeedTree" shaders to support Transmission for Fronds and Leaves.
- Reads alpha transmission from SpeedTree specular maps.
- Changed "SpeedTree" & "Terrain" shaders to disable UV-picking.
- Changed "Weighted Blend" shaders to add "Decal" feature.
- Changed "Decal/Ambient" to affect specular occlusion for more consistent visuals between forward/deferred reflections.
- Changed "Skin" shaders to drop "Detail" Falloff parameter due to lack of use.
- Fixed "TriPlanar" and "Vertex Blend" shaders to have properly implemented Rendering Modes and opacity.
- Fixed "Transmission" shaders to no longer double-apply metallic inputs.
- Moved "Alloy Mods/Decal Ambient" into this set.
- Optimized lighting code to be much faster when the shader doesn't expose any AO or metallic inputs.
- Updated "Alloy Deferred UBER" override shader to support UBER 1.1b (U5.4.0b10 release).
- Updated "Skin" shader to use corrected LUTs with a slightly wider scattering area.
- Changed "Main Textures", "Secondary Textures", and "Oriented Textures" so that their tint alpha still affects opacity when their Roughness Source is set to "Base Color Alpha".
- Changed "Detail" to add the option to use vertex color alpha as a mask.
- Changed "Detail" to drop "AO(G) Variance(A)" & "Occlusion Strength" due to their high cost and lack of widespread use.
- Changed "Directional Blend" to have a vertex color alpha tint property like "Weighted Blend".
- Changed "Directional Blend" and "Weighted Blend" to use a MUCH cheaper blending equation.
- Cutoff is the same, Blend will need to be re-tweaked.
- Changed "TeamColor" Tint toggle into a dropdown.
- Changed "Tessellation" to remove "Combined" mode option due to lack of use.
- Planning equivalent functionality for fewer keywords in the next release. Stay tuned.
- Fixed Parallax Mode dropdown where "POM" was displaying as "P O M".
- Fixed issue with StandardSpecular where opacity was not being adjusted for metals.
- Added Window->Alloy->Samples menubar item.
- Added Window->Alloy->Keyword Report menubar item.
- Added Window->Alloy->Material Migrator menubar item.
- Changed Window->Alloy->Light Migration Tool to Window->Alloy->Light Migrator menubar item.
- Changed "Material Map Channel Packer" to drop "Detail" packed map since we are no longer supporting it.
- We recommend deleting these maps from your project since they're now useless.
- Changed "Skin" shaders to drop "Detail" Falloff parameter due to lack of use.
- Moved "Alloy/Eye/Eyeball" shaders into this set.
- Moved "Alloy/Eye/Eyeball (Legacy)" shaders into this set.
- Renamed to "Eye/Eyeball (Forward)".
- Moved "Alloy/Eye/Eye Occlusion" shaders into this set.
- Use the "Alloy/Decal/Ambient" shader instead to achieve the desired eye occlusion effect.
- Added "Car Paint Fast ClearCoat" shader which uses an experimental new ClearCoat approximation.
- Changed "SP Car Paint" to use an experimental new ClearCoat approximation.
- Changed "Weathered Blend" to add "Occlusion Strength" and "Normal Strength" parameters.
- Changed "Weathered Blend" to base its "Detail" feature UVs on the detail color map.
- Fixed "Weathered Blend" base material map AO to be converted to linear-space before being applied.
- Changed "Mode" to "Roughness Source", "Full" to "Packed Map Alpha", and "Lite" to "Base Color Alpha".
- Fixed issue where deferred override shaders failed to compile while creating a build.
- Fixed issue where Deferred Skin was getting blocky artifacts when the editor viewports were resized.
- Optimized Deferred Skin to use less bandwidth and VRAM at runtime.
- Added most of the Alloy shader features to the "SpeedTree" shader.
- Added scroll to the "Vertex Blend TriPlanar" shaders' texture inputs.
- Fixed instancing z-fighting issue with lighting in forward mode.
- Optimized the "Vertex Blend", "Terrain", and "TriPlanar" shaders.
- Optimized forward lights by removing redundant calculations and moving some of the work to the vertex shader.
- Disabled instancing for now since it keeps interfering with several systems:
- SpeedTree wasn't being affected by wind.
- Transmission brightness was off for directional lights.
- Skinned meshes were crashing the editor.
- Added single-pass stereo rendering support.
- Added "Skin (Forward)" shaders whose parameters and lighting behavior match our "Deferred Skin" pipeline.
- Added instancing support to most of the shaders, including "SpeedTree".
- Changed "Skin" shaders to remove scattering mask so that the metallic mask and controls could be restored.
- Changed "* SingleSided" & "* DoubleSided" shaders to "* OneSided" and "* TwoSided" for easier navigation.
- Fixed "SpeedTree" and "Hair" shaders' incorrect lighting on backfaces.
- Moved "Skin (Legacy)" shaders into the "Legacy" sub-folder/menu.
- Optimized "Transmission TwoSided" shaders to use fewer passes.
- Added Mask Cutoff parameter to "Deferred Skin" to support thresholding transmission as a scattering mask.
- Changed "Deferred Skin" to never have shadowed transmission.
- Changed "Deferred Transmission" to only be shadowed for "TwoSided", or when "OneSided" shadow culling is set to Front.
- Fixed "Deferred Skin" blocky normal artifact.
- Removed "Deferred Skin" Bias and Scale parameters due to their lack of clarity and often being left on their defaults.
- Moved "Skin (Legacy)" shaders into the "Legacy" sub-folder/menu.
- Added Unity 5.4 support.
- Added Light Probe Proxy Volume support to all lit shaders, including particles.
- Added a "Lite" mode to Main, Secondary, and Oriented Textures to get roughness from the base color map alpha.
- Fixed "Partices/VertexLit Blended" shader to support 1 Directional Light, 4 Point Lights, and Light Probes (including LPPV).
- Fixed the vertex lighting code to support the Unity attenuation config flag.
- Fixed SpeedTree shader to apply AO correctly.
- Fixed Skin Transmission to not be so much darker than regular transmission.
- Optimized Deferred Skin rendering.
- Also removed some development controls that weren't really artist-friendly.
- Added "SP Car Paint" shader that is similar to the Substance Painter CarPaint shader.
- Added detail normal map support to the SpeedTree shader's "Branch Detail" mode.
- Added "nSplat" terrain shader variants.
- Added "AO2" feature to the "Transition" shaders.
- Added "Detail" feature to the "Terrain" and "Vertex Blend" TriPlanar shaders.
- Changed "Weighted Blend" and "Directional Blend" to use their secondary textures alpha to influence blending.
- Changed "Parallax" effect to reduce cost when using it in conjunction with Amplify Texture.
- Changed the internal API coding style.
- If you use the config header, you will need to use the new flag names.
- Contact us if you are using customized shaders and require updates.
- Fixed "Eyeball" shaders to apply pupil dilation effect with Amplify Texture.
- Fixed "Eyeball" shaders to sample normal maps when using Amplify Texture.
- Fixed the Unity attenuation option to match between Forward and Deferred mode.
- Fixed "Hair HighQuality" issue with depth of field.
- Fixed incomplete mode feature definitions for the "TriPlanar" and "Directional Blend" shaders.
- Fixed "Transition" shader's weird edge glow and blending behavior when using "Parallax" effect.
- Fixed "Oriented Blend" shader to apply "AO2" effect on top of the oriented blend layer as well as the base layer.
- Fixed missing "AO2" effect on "Directional Blend" shaders.
- Added a workaround for 3rd party plugins that use conflicting definitions for Unity's BlendMode enum.
- Added two new packed map modes to simplify converting Unity metallic and terrain packed maps to Alloy's formats.
- Fixed the Material Map Channel Packer to no longer transfer blurry samples from the input maps.
- We strongly recommend that you reimport all your packed maps to apply this fix.
- Optimized the Material Map Channel Packer for much better packing speed.
- Added "Transition Lite" shader that uses terrain packed maps for Main and Secondary Textures, as well as removing the glow effects from dissolve and transition.
- Added "Decal/Ambient" shader which is a mesh-based decal shader that multiplicatively blends only the ambient contribution.
- redLights 2.0 integration is currently broken.
- Added support for directional disc area lights.
- Added support for enabling Unity attenuation.
- Enable via config flag.
- Added support for Amplify Texture heightmaps in Parallax feature.
- Fixed where the material inspector visualize shader wasn't compiling on the Mac OSX Metal build target.
- Fixed a PS4 compilation issues in the Deferred Skin post-process shaders.
- Updated the area light control to support radius on directional lights for disc lights.
- Fixed the SD5 shader "Packed *" techniques to use a "packedMap" input like the original shader.
- Added the "Mesh Particle Core" shader that uses vertex colors to look up base and emission color from gradient textures.
- Fixed "Deferred Decal Advanced" shader's compilation error.
- Fixed the Skin shaders to not blur the specular illumination.
- Added support for Tube area lights.
- Disable via config flag to slightly improve sphere light performance.
- Added a "Cull Mode" option to the Unlit shaders.
- Changed the mesh-based Decal shaders to be forward-compatible so that they have material inspector previews.
- Fixed Sphere Lights to remove distortion in their diffuse terms.
- Fixed Transmission to remove darkening and distortion due to large area lights.
- Removed the legacy CarPaint mask flag from the config header.
- Updated the area light control to support length on point lights for tube lights.
- Added the "Decal/Additive" mesh-based deferred decal shader.
- Fixed the Deferred Transmission and Skin effects to work with Deferred Reflection Probes disabled.
- Fixed the Decal shaders to disable z-writes.
- Fixed the the bug where vertex colors were being double converted from gamma to linear resulting in oversaturated colors.
- Updated Substance Designer custom shader to support version 5.3.1.
- Condensed all the shaders into one FX file with multiple techniques for ease of import.
- Updated Substance Painter custom shader to support version 1.6.
- Removed the opaque shader, since the alpha test shader will work just as well in this context.
- Added SpeedTree shaders.
- Added the "Decal/Alpha", "Decal/Cutout", and "Decal/Multiplicative" mesh-based deferred decal shaders.
- Added deferred Eyeball shaders.
- Renamed the existing forward-only Eyeball shaders to "Eyeball (Legacy)".
- Added deferred Skin shaders.
- Uses new "Alloy Deferred Skin" deferred override shader & "Deferred Renderer Plus" camera component.
- Renamed the existing forward-only Skin shaders to "Skin (Legacy)".
- Added deferred Transmission shaders.
- Uses new "Alloy Deferred Transmission" deferred override shader & "Deferred Renderer Plus" camera component.
- Renamed the existing forward-only Transmission shaders to "Transmission (Legacy)".
- Added support for colored light cookies to both our shaders and the Unity surface shader injection headers.
- AreaLight script now automatically sets cookie on Spot lights that don't have one.
- Set config flag to restore legacy behavior.
- Added a "Falloff" parameter to the Skin shader Details effect to simulate micro-occlusion at grazing angles.
- Added AO2 to the Weighted Blend shader.
- Changed all the tessellation shaders to add MacOSX support.
- Changed the TeamColor feature to offer the option to use the Masks texture directly as a color tint.
- Changed the TeamColor feature to use the new masks vector control for selecting which channels to use from the Masks map.
- You will need to update any materials that were using RGBA masks.
- Changed the shaders to store specular occlusion directly in the Gbuffer to reduce cost and improve SSRR integration.
- Changed section names to be shorter and more readable in the material inspector.
- Changed Flakes properties so that the tint color alpha affects the flake mask.
- Changed ForwardEye shader to disable Iris highlight to simplify lighting API.
- Fixed the ForwardSkin and Skin shaders to correctly mask blurred normals.
- Fixed a bug in the override headers where they weren't correctly calculating Point/Spot lights in forward mode.
- Fixed the "Unlit" shaders so that it now renders properly when set to Fade/Transparent.
- Fixed the "Oriented Core" shader to gamma-correct vertex colors before using them as tints.
- Fixed our tessellation shaders to not apply tessellation in their Meta passes.
- Fixed the Terrain and Vertex Blend TriPlanar modes to use per-pixel normals for specular occlusion and environment specular.
- Moved all the character shaders into the new sub-menu "Human".
- Moved the Terrain shaders into the "Nature" sub-menu to be with the SpeedTree shaders.
- Added more validation and warnings to the Material Map Channel Packer.
- Added a new "Deferred Renderer Plus" camera component to support deferred Skin and Transmission.
- Added per-light specular highlight toggle.
- AreaLight component is now required on ALL lights, so use our Light Migration tool to update them.
- Changed the Light Migration tool to support the AreaLight component on all lights, and DefaultSpotCookie on Spot Lights.
- Changed all our packer definitions to be serialized to text by default to prevent issues in "Force Text", and "Mixed" modes.
- Fixed a bug in the Particle inspector where the UI wouldn't appear.
- Added a two-pass, forward-only Full ClearCoat CarPaint shader.
- Added a prototype Deferred Decal shader.
- Added the "Intersection Glow" shader which is used for drawing clear domes with rim & emission effects that glows when it intersects other geometry.
- Added the "Masked Core" shader prototype which uses a shared packed masks texture and the ability to pick multiple masks to apply to the Detail, Emission, and Rim effects.
- Moved deferred-compatible Eyeball shader to official set.
- Added new sections for "Advanced Setup" of the deferred transmission and skin effects.
- Updated and reorganized most of the existing sections.
- Added a deferred reflections override shader.
- Added a shadow cull mode setting on the "Transmission SingleSided" shaders.
- Changed the Subtance Painter preview shader to account for SP 1.5 changes.
- Fixed the Subtance Painter preview shader alpha blending/test shader variants.
- Fixed and simplified the UBER integration by adding a dedicated deferred shader.
- Fixed the Map Packer pack definition corruption problem.
- Added "Alloy/Particles/VertexLit Blended" shader with support for vertex lighting and light probes.
- Added UBER integration to our deferred override shader.
- Added Occlusion Strength and Normal Strength parameters to all relevant shaders.
- Added Beta Alloy brdf and area light override headers for Unity's surface shader system.
- Currently works for surface shaders using Standard, StandardSpecular, Phong, and Lambert lighting models.
- Changed default HDR Clamp from 32 to 100.
- To restore legacy, modify setting in config header.
- Changed the "CarPaint" shaders to have the flake map RGB act as a tint, and the alpha act as the mask.
- Set config flag to restore legacy behavior.
- Changed the Unlit shaders' Main Textures properties' Tint parameter to use an HDR Color picker.
- Changed the Unlit shaders to affect the Gbuffer in deferred mode so that image effects will detect them.
- Changed light probe sampling to be fully per-pixel by default.
- Restore legacy behavior with config flag.
- Changed our internal Luminance code to a more modern formula, which may affect look of specular tints.
- Fixed an issue with the Skin shader where it wasn't correctly accounting for shadows and attenuation in it's LUT lookup.
- Fixed an issue in the Static Directional Specular mode where we weren't applying the direct contribution.
- Fixed the Directional Specular lightmap mode to apply AO to its diffuse contribution to look more consistent with the other lightmap modes.
- Fixed the POM distortion that occurred on large triangles at grazing angles.
- Fixed the random popping issues in the POM effect that occurred when the camera moved away from the object.
- Fixed the default value for the Transmission shaders' Bump Distortion to make the effect more apparent.
- Fixed the divide by zero compiler warnings for some of the shaders.
- Fixed a GLSL compilation issue.
- Changed the channel packer tool to make it data-driven and support user-defined packer modes.
- Fixed the issue where freshly imported packed maps would be broken and need to be manually reimported.
- Changed the Weathered Blend shader to apply parallax to the base masks and normals.
- Fixed incorrect gamma correction in Map packer to account for changes in Unity 5.1.
- Added the "TriPlanar/Full" and "TriPlanar/Lite" shaders.
- Added TriPlanar variants of "Terrain/4Splat" and "Vertex Blend/4Splat".
- Adjusted the normal projection for "Oriented/Blend" and "Oriented/Core".
- Merged "Directional/Blend World" and "Directional/Blend Object" into "Directional Blend".
- Migrated all the emission effects to using the new Unity HDR color picker.
- Modified the "Transmission DoubleSided" shader to add the parameters Shadow Weight & Invert Back Normals.
- Fixed the backface lighting for the "Transmission DoubleSided" shaders.
- Removed the legacy features flags.
- Renamed "Hair/Translucent" -> "Hair/HighQuality" and "Hair/Base" -> "Hair/LowQuality" for clarity.
- Renamed "Vertex Blend 4Splat" -> "Vertex Blend/4Splat" for grouping flexibility.
- Removed the legacy Intensity Gain color control from our inspector definition system.
- Removed the AlloyUtils.IntensityGain() utility function.
- Added the deferred-compatible Eyeball shader prototype.
- Changed all instances of "_AlphaTestRef" property to "_Cutoff" to ensure compatibility with Unity 3.1's depth-normal pass replacement shader.
- Fixed Oriented Blend and Core shaders to swap X & Z normal mapping and to properly convert Y on the underside of the object.
- Fixed distant terrain shader to use Unity's renamed metallic texture property and roughness.
- Added a new "Combined" tessellation mode that combines Phong and Displacement.
- Fixed the GI code that caused weird noisy glitching artifacts on some MacOSX platforms.
- Fixed the Parallax code that was causing it to fail to compile on the PS4.
- Fixed the Detail feature code that caused it to fail to compile on some MacOSX platforms.
- Fixed the Substance Designer preview shaders' code that caused them to fail to compile on AMD GPUs.
- Added "Directional Blend" shaders with support for blending around an arbitrary direction on the surface.
- Added "Vertex Blend 4Splat" shaders with support for blending 4 splats using vertex colors.
- Added a secondary vertex color tint slider to the "Oriented*", "Transition", & "Weighted Blend" shaders.
- Added a Pupil Dilation control to the "Eye/Eyeball".
- Added directional control to the "Oriented Blend" shaders.
- Changed all shaders to now have the Global Illumination control at the top so all types of emission can affect GI.
- You will need to manually set all your static objects to "None", as this control always defaults to "Realtime".
- Changed the "CarPaint" shader.
- Added a primary tint color that is applied in the masked areas.
- "Main Textures" tint color now affects both primary and secondary paint colors.
- Toggle legacy behavior in the config header.
- Changed the "Eye/Eyeball" shader.
- Split up the "Eye Properties" into two smaller sections.
- Added a Schlera tint color.
- "Main Textures" tint color now affects both Schlera and Iris colors.
- Toggle legacy behavior in the config header.
- Changed our Parallax code to reduce the overall cost per active feature and simplify the API.
- Changed "Weighted Blend" & "Oriented Blend" to allow emission to be blended over.
- Changed "Weighted Blend" to remove Secondary Rim, as there should only be one rim term for the combined material.
- Changed "Transition" so that the Dissolve feature now accounts for each layer's parallax texture offsets.
- Changed API
- Rebuilt our lighting code to give each lighting type its own shareable module, removing the code from the shaders.
- Simplified our texture coordinate macro system so that each texture doesn't need to know about parallax.
- Added a masking system to allow features to be externally masked for different blending behavior.
- Fixed the "Particle*" shaders so that input vertex colors now receive gamma-correction.
- Fixed the "Tessellation/Oriented*" shaders which erroniously were set to target SM3.0, and had parallax properties.
- Fixed it so that Fade rendering mode no longer increase opacity when the surface metalness increases.
- Fixed the code we use to transform normals for our Oriented shaders.
- Fixed a compiler bug on the "Eye/Eyeball" shader when using the Dissolve feature in SM3 mode.
- Fixed a Null Ref error when using substances and switching shaders.
- Fixed the rendering modes dropdown to now work with undo.
- Fixed a potential compilation bug in the Glass shader when used on consoles.
- Fixed the Material Map Channel Packer so that its controls now support undo.
- Weathered Blend (an experiment in attenuating a type of 2mat blend with further mesh data).
- WetMask Set (used in the Remnants demo for combining Weighted blend with scrollable wet sections).
- The visualize feature currently doesn't work properly for textures that use world-space UVs.
- Changed to an optimized BRDF visibility function.
- Toggle legacy behavior in the config header.
- Changed our higher quality Environment BRDF to use a formulation that maps correctly to linear roughness.
- Changed the Environment BRDF to use our new formulation by default.
- Required some small changes to the lighting API.
- Toggle legacy behavior in the config header.
- Fixed a bug in the Weighted Blend shaders where the vertex tint control was not doing anything.
- Changed the TeamColor module to use our new formulation by default.
- Toggle legacy behavior in the config header.
- Fixed a possible bug in the Material Map Channel Packer where it would error if any of the input textures didn't have mipmaps enabled.
- Substance Designer
- Changed visibility function to match Unity shaders.
- Removed the Specular AA feature as it was never really working properly due to the lack of mipmap generation.
- Added support for tinting the base color with vertex colors.
- Added a Mode dropdown to the Team Color feature to support explicitly turning off the alpha mask.
- Modified the Weighted Blend shader to control the influence of the vertex alpha on the weight.
- Modified the vertex lighting fallback to use Alloy's attenuation function.
- Modified the config header options.
- Fixed a compilation issue with the terrain shaders.
- Fixed a bug in the AlloyVertex() callback where it wouldn't properly handle vertex position modification.
- Fixed a potential bug on the AreaLight component where it wouldn't let you change the light intensity or color if the light was disabled.
- Modified the Decal feature:
- Added a Weight property to allow smoothly turning decals on and off from scripts without modifying the tint color.
- Added a property for controlling how much the vertex color alpha weights the Decals.
- Substance Painter
- Updated the preview shader to support SP1.3.
- Added Alpha translucency and cutout variants of the preview shader.
- Added a cutoff control the Hair Translucent shaders to allow control over the opaque regions for better sorting.
- Modified all the Tessellation shaders to use their regular variants as fallbacks.
- Fixed a problem with the Detail feature where it wouldn't compile on MacOSX.
- Added a new tool for migrating existing punctual lights to Alloy area lights.
- Fixed our Area Light code to now convert existing light data to our representation when the Area Light component is added.
- Fixed our Terrain Packed Maps to correctly grab color info, rather than just a single channel.
- Added a new config option for higher quality IBL fresnel.
- Currently disabled by default as we decide if we want to make it the new default.
- Changed the Tessellation shaders so that the Displacement property goes up to a max of 30.
- Moved the Max intensity constant to the Config header to allow easier customization.
- Fixed a bug in our Amplify Texture support code where we were using the wrong function when sampling normals.
- Changed the Particle shaders:
- Added a rim fade feature to support light shaft effects.
- Added a near fade feature to support fading particles that get close to the camera.
- Centralized their code in a shared header for easier maintenance.
- Switched to using Unity RC3's new [Gamma] attribute for some input properties to save calculations inside the shaders.
- Changed the config header to add an option for enabling a minimum tessellation edge length property. This can be globally set by a script to control the tessellation quality of all models.
- Changed surface shader API.
- Changed most of the shader pass code to centralize their shared code.
- Changed the Oriented Blend shader:
- If the Oriented material has an alpha channel, it alpha blends on top of the base material.
- If the base material has an alpha, it will alpha through or cutout the oriented material.
- Changed surface shader API.
- Added support for modifying vertices.
- Added support for final color modification.
- Added an explicit folder with default headers for various surface shader callbacks.
- Fixed the Distort pass to now support Fog.
- Material Inspector
- Fixed an issue with the visualize function where the underlying mesh would poke through on edges.
- Changed the Terrain shaders.
- Restored the additional per-splat parameters and base layer.
- Restored deferred support.
- Removed 5-n splat support.
- Fixed several Unity config problems
- Shaders were Orthonormalizing when they shouldn't have been.
- Shaders were using Box projection and probe blending when they shouldn't have been.
- Material Inspector
- Added a new control for Unity's LightmapEmissionProperty.
- Added "Oriented/Core" shaders
- World-textured material.
- Changed the Oriented Blend Shader
- Changed the name to "Oriented/Blend".
- Now uses its own property names, so allow easy copying between it and "Oriented/Core".
- Now blends based on the per-pixel world normal, rather than the geometry world normals.
- Changed Skin shaders
- Added an explicit skin mask and removed implicit control through the translucency map.
- Changed Transmission to now convert the Translucency map input to linear space.
- Removed Metallic control and mask.
- Changed Weighted Blend/Transition shaders.
- Secondary maps now support Scroll and UV Set selection.
- Changed all shaders.
- Base and Detail maps now support Scroll and UV Set selection.
- Fixed the Eyeball shader to default Iris Depth to 0.08 rather than 1.
- Fixed the Terrain
- Had to remove a bunch of features since Unity took away the ability to use them.
- It now can use the per-splat and distant metallic feature.
- Material Inspector
- Added support for rendering a Vector2-4 control for Vector properties.
- Fixed a bug where it would render a color control for Vector properties.
Lighting:
- Added support for both Point and Spot Spherical Area lights!
- Modified Point and Spot lights to use Inverse Square physical attenuation.
- Modified our lighting model.
- Diffuse now exhibits interreflection for rough materials.
- Specular lighting now uses the GGX BRDF.
- IBL
- Added support for Unity 5's new reflection probes, dynamic GI, directional lightmaps, etc.
- Removed RSRM support.
- Added Car Paint shader.
- Added Prototyping shader.
- Added Hair shader.
- Added Eye shader.
- Added Eye Occlusion shader.
- Added Glass shader.
- Replaces Transparent Distort
- Added Unlit shader.
- Replaces the old Glow shaders.
- Added Weighted Blend shaders.
- Added Oriented Blend shaders.
- Added Terrain shaders.
- Added Transmission shaders.
- Added Particle shaders.
- Added Tessellation variants of all shaders.
- Changed Skin shaders
- Added attenuation to the transmission effect.
- Transmission is now in Base alpha.
- Specularity is now in the Material Map blue channel.
- Transmission "weight" parameter is now converted to linear internally.
- Added Ubershaders!
- Users can now add/remove features within a shader rather than by switching shaders.
- Uses the new shader_feature system to compile on demand and cut down on excess keyword usage.
- Added Vertex-weighted Decal feature.
- Can control where alpha decals appear on the mesh per-vertex.
- Dropped detail material and normal and now rely on this variant being combined with the Detail feature.
- Added Masked Detail feature.
- Can use a per-pixel mask to control area of influence.
- Added UV mode to AO2, Detail, Dissolve, and Effect texture controls.
- Added AO2 support to the Car Paint, Glass, and Transmission shaders.
- Merged Masked Incandescence system with Unity's new Emission feature.
- Allows it to feed into the lightmap and dynamic GI systems.
- Changed Dissolve, Emission, and Rim effects to use Gain, rather than intensity.
- [0,1] range with a perceptually linear gain in intensity.
- Added a weight parameter to dissolve glow to compensate for added intensity.
- Changed primary textures to now use native Unity transforms.
- You can now tile the other texture groups independently of the "Main Textures" group.
- Rim and Emission color textures now have an Offset parameter.
- Changed the TeamColor feature so that the RGB masks are applied on top of the alpha mask.
- Can now use RGB textures to save memory.
- Testing is simpler, since you no longer need to make a texture with a zero alpha.
- Fixed the issue where tiled secondary textures (Detail, Decal, etc) would "swim" when using parallax.
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Light Inspector
- All lights can now support intensities higher than 8.
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Area Light Inspector
- Extends existing Point and Spot light gameobjects to add Size information.
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Material Inspector
- Added a new in-shader DSL UI definition system.
- Added a new ubershader UI.
- User enables features by adding/removing properties sections.
- Uses Unity 5's render mode selector rather than separate Opaque, Transparent, etc shaders.
- Changed the Visualize feature
- Added support for visualizing on Skinned Meshes.
- Added support for submesh visualization.
- Added UV mode support, including on parent textures.
- Changed button to now appears outside collapsed transforms section on textures.
- Fixed a bug where visualizing individual channels displayed with the wrong intensities.
- Fixed the bug where visualize button appeared on materials selected inside the project window.
- Changed the Texture controls
- Renamed "Velocity" to "Scroll".
- Added a "Spin" value for spinning textures on particles.
- Added UV mode to control whether a texture uses UV0 or UV1.
- Fixed the bug where materials would throw exceptions if they had more than one property with the same name but different types.
- Fixed the issue with Texture controls where you couldn't pick a different texture in the same open window after picking one.
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Material Map Packer
- Added a new "Terrain" packed mode for supporting maps with color and roughness.
- Modified the save path to reduce its width for extremely deep folder paths.
- Fixed an issue where the float value controls were previewing a color that was too dark.
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RSRM Generator
- Removed since we discontinued support for them.
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Skyshop
- Removed support.
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Substance Designer
- Added support for Alloy's new BRDF.
- Added support for SD4.6.
- Support for the new "specularlevel" input, with legacy support for our own "specularity" input.
- Emission support.
- Opacity support, but it blends incorrectly since it is in gamma-space.
- Tessellation support.
- Fixed some issues that caused the Specular highlights to be too dark.
- Fixed an issue where the the ambient occlusion's ambient intensity was being changed.
- Removed support for D3D-style normal toggle, since Unity doesn't support that.
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Substance Painter
- Added a new Alloy preview shader.
Demo Assets:
- Updated all the materials to use Alloy 3.0 shaders.
Known issues:
- Visualize feature does not work correctly when used with parallax or tessellation.
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Material Inspector
- Changed the Visualize feature
- Added support for visualizing on Skinned Meshes.
- Added support for submesh visualization.
- Fixed a bug where visualizing individual channels displayed with the wrong intensities.
- Fixed the bug where visualize button appeared on materials selected inside the project window.
- Changed the Visualize feature
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Material Map Packer
- Fixed an issue where the float value controls were previewing a color that was too dark.
- Skyshop
- Updated Alloy to use Skyshop 1.11.
- Fixed the translucent & skin shaders to render correctly in deferred mode on MacOSX.
- Fixes issues when using skin shaders with Candela in deferred mode.
- Substance Designer
- Updated Alloy preview shader to use the new SH diffuse lighting feature.
- Added a new shader to render using packed material map rather than individual channels.
- Added support for Parallax & Parallax Occlusion Mapping modes in "\Core" and "\Transparent\Cutout" shaders.
- Added a TeamColor detail mode to the standard shaders.
- Added archviz-friendly UV1AO2 shader variants.
- Dissolve
- Added variants to all the standard shaders so it is easier to apply the effect to common materials.
- Changed the Cutoff parameter to use [0,1], rather than [0,1.01].
- Skin
- Moved to "Skin" folder.
- Generalized to support other shader features (Decal, Detail, Rim, etc)
- Added custom material editor support.
- Modified “Self-Illumin/Glow” and “Self-Illumin/Glow Cutout” to use the custom editor.
- Added support for Skyshop 1.07 and up.
- Box projection is now accessed through skyshop's sky manager UI.
- Added support for sky blending.
- PLEASE NOTE: Alloy will no longer work with older versions of Skyshop due to changes in how they do their calculations.
- Changed the custom editor parameter names and order to improve readability.
- Fixed an issue where the misnamed Decal material map parameter prevented it from showing up in our custom editor.
- Fixed an issue where we weren’t gamma-correcting the transition glow intensity in the Transition shaders.
- Restored support for low-quality vertex lighting mode.
- Added support for setting the Wrap Mode on packed textures.
- Still defaults to "Repeat".
- Added support for setting packed textures to "Automatic TrueColor" format.
- Best to keep it on "Automatic Compressed" unless compression artifacts are harming visuals.
- Added support for setting max size on packed textures.
- Capped to not exceed texture's dimensions.
- Fixed issue where user could accidentally set the packed textures to an invalid format.
NOTE: It is also possible to set the Aniso level, in case you didn't know.
- SD4.1 shader fix so it no longer manually gamma-corrects the environment map.
- Fixed an issue where our custom material inspector's tab and texture name text was hard to read in Light Skin mode.
- Minor cleanup in our RSRM Generator and Material Map Packer to make them more readable using Light Skin.
- The following shaders and paths are to be removed after this release:
- "Assets/Alloy/FX/Transparent/Cutout/*"
- "Assets/Alloy/Core/Skin Bumped"
- EMERGENCY hotfix because I'm an idiot.
- Added beta Skin shader in Core set (Skin Bumped).
- Fixed inspector bug preventing custom cubes to be input.
- Increased Specular Power Range
- Better Visibility Function * Treyarch Shlick Approximation
- Specular Occlusion (Tri-ace style)
- Specular Anti-Aliasing via Roughness Correction
- Smoothness changed to Roughness (to line up with SD4, and other industry conventions)
- Added Specularity Parameter for varying specular intensity on dielectrics
- New RGBA Packed Data Map (R = Metallic, G = AO, B = Spec, A = Roughness)
- Dropdown for Ambient Lighting options, rather than multiple shader variants.
- Added Exposure Boost for traditional cube reflections
- RSRMs now affect ambient diffuse
- More controls and texture features for Masked Incandescence and Rim Lighting
- Custom Material Inspectors
- Alloy Packed Map Generator
- Alloy RSRM Generator Editor
- Substance Designer 4 Preview Shader with sample graphs
- Decal Texture Versions in Each Variant Set
- Distortive Translucent Variant Set
- Alpha Cutout Variant Set
- VFX Dissolve and Transition Shaders
- Global Sky Settings, Diffuse SH, FIltered Spec Cube
- Custom Overridden FIltered Spec Cube
- HDR Filtered Cube-capture using Alloy Materials
- Box Projection Support
- Some faceting can occur on super smooth surfaces in deferred mode due to normal buffer precision (only Unity can fix)
- Translucent shaders only receive 1 dynamic light in deferred mode due to a Unity 4.3 glitch (we have an open bug report)
- Deferred mode is totally busted on OSX. We have no idea wtf is happening, but we're trying to figure out what it is.
- We don't have a terrain shader currently. Don't worry, we're working hard on it, but didn't want to delay this update further.
- Standardized the API naming conventions to avoid name collisions when mixing shader libraries. This will break current user-created shaders, which will need to be updated to use the new API.
- RimLight() -> aRimLight()
- EPSILON -> A_EPSILON
- DeGamma() -> AlloyDeGamma()
- LinearLuminance() -> AlloyLinearLuminance()
- etc.
- Added a new material API to move implementation details of our material system out of the individual shaders.
- Direct access to the SurfaceOutput will no longer work correctly.
- For custom shaders, we strongly recommend using the new API.
- The headers are no longer obfuscated, and come fully commented.
- Renamed “Alloy/Transparent/MaskedIncandescence Rim” to “Alloy/Effects/MaskedIncandescence Rim” since it doesn’t integrate with Unity’s translucency system for baking.
- Fixed an issue in “Alloy/Effects/MaskedIncandescence Rim” where it wasn’t getting texture coordinates from the mask texture
- Reoredered the parameters for all the “MaskedIncandescence” shaders so that the Mask is higher up to show that it uses the first UV set while the Incandescence texture uses the second UV set.
- Removed an unnecessary energy conserving step from the distort pass of the alpha distort shaders.
- Fixed an issue where alpha was darkening albedo in cutout shaders.
- Fixed an issue in the terrain shaders where the blend weights were being applied twice to the smoothness, causing them to be biased toward rough values where multiple splats overlapped.