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:
It will be of great use to us to have an easy to use tool that lets us easily mix colors/maps in a material. For example in this PlayCanvas scene for the ground:
We use vertex colors to paint the various material channels (diffuse, normal, metal, parallax) on the ground. For example red for grass, blue for pavement etc. Although the mapping is straightforward right now it requires a complex to maintain shader to do that.
Here we use black/white masks to blend two textures together for dirt/decay on materials. This is actually doable right now with detail textures, but sometimes we take it a step further and blend three maps at the same place. Being able to do this visually or at least with easy to maintain shader code would be very helpful!
Same for being able to do small things like rotate a texture map by a certain angle.
I am working at a betting/casino dev company, we are in need of a custom shader in order to make an animated background for our apps, similar to this https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ltGSWD
If the graph has the ability to create such a thing, I would like to apply as a beta tester.
I have experience with node-based procedural graphs such as Substance Designer (https://www.artstation.com/davasoft) and Unity3D Shader graph
Just started working with shaders, now I know it’s easy, but I would still like to participate in shader graph as beta tester if possible, I would like to see how it’s working
awesome news! I just got back into weblGL shaders again and I recently thought this feature would be great. For me it would be cool if we’d be able to access the depth buffer of a camera to create some effects based on distance.
If it’s possible I’d love to beta test the shader graph to test the workflow of creating shaders this way.
I recently saw that shader graph editor is on beta testing, that’s great!
Would be possible to join to this beta and check it out the editor and capabilities, I think I’m not an expert, but I have some experience building shaders in different shader graph editors from UDK/UE4 to shader forge, amplify, and lastly the Effekseer shader editor.
I hope it can be possible
Thanks in advance.
Cheers!
Me and my colleague are currently developing a boat simulator in which in some parts of this boat it is necessary to have a mixture of two overlapping materials (one of them with alpha). I don’t know how to write shaders, but I know how to make shaders through nodes. I just found out that your team is developing Shader Editor and I would like to know how I can experiment with making shader nodes on playcanvas.
@Nazar_Unloop Unfortunately, at the moment, the shader editor is not yet ready to be used with production yet so there isn’t any integration with the Scene Editor.
?