Article: Creating a DOOM-inspired horror aesthetic with PlayCanvas

[Leonidas]

@OmarShehata

I also wanted to say I’m happy to hear any feedback on better ways to do things (for example I only realized you could override shader chunks while writing this article, and I had initially went through a lot of trouble of creating custom materials to get the lighting to behave how I wanted).

Yeah, I think what you did in the end is the optimal way right now (I am doing something similar for heavy duty shaders).

If you haven’t check this out as well, you can opt in the beta:

[RFC] Shader Editor

Hi Everyone! We’re busy working on a new shader editor for customising materials in PlayCanvas. It is node based and should be familiar to those of you who have experience with node based material editors. Here is a quick screenshot of shader editor: [Screenshot 2021-06-08 at 10.51.03] At launch we plan to support: customising material properties like albedo, normal, specular, roughness etc have access to surface properties like texture coordinates, position, vertex normal sample 2d textur…