Shadow Generations Shaders - BlendDetail dndnd

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Overview

Shader Behavior Overview

Shader model:

   [2] Standard (PBR)
Does not support:

• Punch-through mesh layer
• Transparent mesh layer
• Noise
• Compute instancing

An advanced PBR shader that uses

• vertex alpha to blend between two albedo textures
• distance blending to apply detail albedo and normal map textures

Warning

This shader has a severe bug where normals break outside the detail range! It is advised to not use this shader.

Related shaders

• Blend_dpndpn
• Blend_dpnbdpn
• BlendDetail_dpndpnn
• Detail_dpndpn
• Detail_dpnn
• DirectionBlend_dpndpn
• DirectionBlend_dpndpnn
• DirectionBlend_dpnndpn
• DistanceBlend_dpn

Behavior

Vertex alpha blending

The shader has two sets of diffuse textures and two sets of PBRFactor parameters.

The shader uses a blend factor to interpolate from the first set of textures to second one.
This blend factor consists of just the vertex alpha.

Distance blending

Uses distance blending to interpolate

From...	... to
the normal texture	the normal and normal[1] textures blended together
the combined diffuse textures	the combined diffuse textures overlaid with the diffuse[1] texture using detail blending

Bugs

Warning

The shader checks if the surface is within the detail range, and only then applies the detail diffuse and the detail normal textures. Unfortunately, the surface' normal direction never gets set outside this if-block, which means normals are completely broken outside the detail range.

Vertex Colors

• Color is not used
• Alpha is used as the basis for the blend factor

Material Inputs

Textures

Name	Index	UV Index	Kind	Red	Green	Blue	Alpha
diffuse	0	Any	Albedo	First Albedo color			N/A
diffuse	1	2	Detail albedo	Detail color			N/A
diffuse	2	Any	Albedo	Second Albedo color			N/A
normal	0	0	Normal map	Normal map direction		N/A	N/A
normal	1	2	Detail Normal map	Detail Normal map direction		N/A	N/A

Parameters

Name	X	Y	Z	W
DetailFactor	UV scale for the diffuse[1] and normal[1] textures	N/A	N/A	N/A
PBRFactor	First Specular factor	First Smoothness factor	First Metallic factor	N/A
PBRFactor2	Second Specular factor	Second Smoothness factor	Second Metallic factor	N/A

Technical

Shader Features
enable_multi_tangent_space
is_use_tex_srt_anim
is_use_gi_prt
is_use_gi_sg
is_use_gi