It's great that new tutorials for Godot 4 are appearing, especially ones of such high quality, like this one. Good job! I'm looking forward to more videos. 😎
Love every video, and this one showed me I know nothing about shaders haha its so intimidating Edit: I rewatched and your tip with the unshaded flag at 5:33 solved a huge problem for me I had with a blood shader that would draw black/purple when facing away from the sun in my scene now it is how it should be amazing! Ty
In the video, the texture was 1024x1024px, but in general you should always make your texture square with 1:1 ratio Also, my suggestion you should always draw texture in higher resolution then scale it down to what you need, so it is future proof You're welcome, glad you like the content!
I guess because the mask is consist of black and white texture where black is equal to 0 and white equal to 1 if you multiply it by any value the black area will always return 0 and it is impossible to make a full opaque texture, like the one for the inside sphere And in my opinion having different sampler is much more reliable and flexible on determining the end result :)
@@LittleStrykerID Admittedly, I'm sorta new to this sorta stuff, so I'm just working things out to explore it, so take this with a grain of salt of course. But I played around with it and addition seems to work! uniform bool ALPHA_ENABLED; void fragment() { COLOR = texture(TEXTURE, UV); COLOR.a += float(ALPHA_ENABLED); } Admittedly I'm not sure what is and isn't good to do in shaders outside of branches, so maybe it'd be better to just have this as a float and not have to do the cast, but uhhh yeah!
Oh yeah addition will work, but multiplication will not :) And maybe you also need to add clamp to the alpha because negative alpha value will give you problem usually
@@LittleStrykerID I mean in that case, you're adding branches. I'm not sure how floats work, but if they're faster than a clamp, then bools kinda prevent negative values anyway since it's only 0/1.
so I don't really know what kind of impact on performance my method has, but the alpha texture slot is there to give versatility to the shader. just in case I need like different use cases so I can reuse this shader instead of writing new one for every individual vfx and if I understand it correctly, you'll lose the ability to fade the alpha by using bool, unless you multiply everything by a float at the end to make everything fade
I love seeing people make these case study videos for VFX. Thanks for the excellent explanations, and I can't wait to see more videos!
Hi thanks for the kind words! I love your rocket league recreation vid!
Really cool result you got here man, keep it up!
dude, unity maihem let me find so many good and talented tutorials of godot, amazing content.
Awesome bruh .. keep Godoting 🎉
It's great that new tutorials for Godot 4 are appearing, especially ones of such high quality, like this one. Good job! I'm looking forward to more videos. 😎
Love every video, and this one showed me I know nothing about shaders haha its so intimidating
Edit: I rewatched and your tip with the unshaded flag at 5:33 solved a huge problem for me I had with a blood shader that would draw black/purple when facing away from the sun in my scene
now it is how it should be amazing! Ty
Awesome! Simple, juicy effect! Great work)
Thankyou! ❤🔥
Love your videos
Your tutorials are great, and your results look amazing! Insta-sub :)
Esto está espectacular Bro. espero hagas más tutoriales de efectos como agua en toon shader
Awesome! :O, me inspiró a aprender a usar shaders
Wow you are genius
when i draw my texture in photoshop, what are the dimensions?
and thank you, your channel and your content are gold mine.
In the video, the texture was 1024x1024px, but in general you should always make your texture square with 1:1 ratio
Also, my suggestion you should always draw texture in higher resolution then scale it down to what you need, so it is future proof
You're welcome, glad you like the content!
Couldn't you have a float or bool or whatever that's multiplied by the alpha mask somehow as a toggle instead of using a second sampler?
I guess because the mask is consist of black and white texture where black is equal to 0 and white equal to 1 if you multiply it by any value the black area will always return 0 and it is impossible to make a full opaque texture, like the one for the inside sphere
And in my opinion having different sampler is much more reliable and flexible on determining the end result :)
@@LittleStrykerID Admittedly, I'm sorta new to this sorta stuff, so I'm just working things out to explore it, so take this with a grain of salt of course.
But I played around with it and addition seems to work!
uniform bool ALPHA_ENABLED;
void fragment() {
COLOR = texture(TEXTURE, UV);
COLOR.a += float(ALPHA_ENABLED);
}
Admittedly I'm not sure what is and isn't good to do in shaders outside of branches, so maybe it'd be better to just have this as a float and not have to do the cast, but uhhh yeah!
Oh yeah addition will work, but multiplication will not :)
And maybe you also need to add clamp to the alpha because negative alpha value will give you problem usually
@@LittleStrykerID I mean in that case, you're adding branches. I'm not sure how floats work, but if they're faster than a clamp, then bools kinda prevent negative values anyway since it's only 0/1.
so I don't really know what kind of impact on performance my method has, but the alpha texture slot is there to give versatility to the shader. just in case I need like different use cases so I can reuse this shader instead of writing new one for every individual vfx
and if I understand it correctly, you'll lose the ability to fade the alpha by using bool, unless you multiply everything by a float at the end to make everything fade
Can make more videos using blender??
Hi for sure, what kind of content do you want to see?
@@LittleStrykerID Maybe a character chargin sphere, animated if you can
This is dope as fuck!! Looks just like Brim smokes
Cool. Now make CS2's