Shadow Generations Shaders - Blend dpnbdpn

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Overview

Shader Behavior Overview

Shader model:

   [2] Standard (PBR)
Supports:

• Multiple tangents

Does not support:

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

An advanced PBR shader that lets you blend between two sets of textures using vertex colors and a mask texture.

Related shaders

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

Behavior

This shader has two sets of PBR textures:

• diffuse, specular and normal
• diffuse[1], specular[1] and normal[1]

The shader uses a blend factor to interpolate from the first texture set to the second texture set.
This blend factor consists of the vertex alpha multiplied by the transparency textures red channel.

• For the specular and normal textures, the blend factor is used as is.
• For the diffuse textures, the blend factor is multiplied by the diffuse[1] texture alpha.

Multi-tangent

When enabled, the second set of tangents will be used to unpack the normal[1] texture.

Vertex Colors

• Color is multiplied into the diffuse texture color (after blending)
• Alpha is used as the basis for the blend factor

Material Inputs

Textures

Name	Index	UV Index	Kind	Red	Green	Blue	Alpha
diffuse	0	0	Albedo	First Albedo color			N/A
diffuse	1	2	Albedo	Second Albedo color			Multiplied into the vertex alpha (blend factor), but only for when blending the two diffuse textures!
specular	0	0	PRM	First Specular factor; Gets multiplied by 0.25	First Smoothness factor	First Metallic factor	First Ambient Occlusion
specular	1	2	PRM	Second Specular factor; Gets multiplied by 0.25	Second Smoothness factor	Second Metallic factor	Second Ambient Occlusion
normal	0	0	Normal map	First Normal map direction		N/A	N/A
normal	1	2	Normal map	Second Normal map direction		N/A	N/A
transparency	0	3	Mask	Multiplied into the vertex alpha (blend factor)	N/A	N/A	N/A

Parameters

This shader does not use any parameters.

Technical

Shader Features
is_use_tex_srt_anim
enable_multi_tangent_space
is_use_gi_prt
is_use_gi_sg
is_use_gi

Gallery

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  How Blend_dpnbdpn is used for the Ship in the metal overlord boss fight to make use of already existing textures