Unity texture packing manual#

Use the slider to control how metallic the surface appears. Shows a map input for your chosen Workflow Mode in the Surface Options.įor the Metallic Map workflow, the map gets the color from the Base Map assigned above. If you select Transparent or Alpha Clipping under Surface Options, your Material uses the Texture’s alpha channel or color. To assign another tint, you can click this color swatch. The color next to the setting shows the tint on top of your assigned Texture. Alternatively, you can use the color picker. This opens the Asset Browser, where you can select from the Textures in your Project. To assign a Texture to the Base Map setting, click the object picker next to it. PropertyĪdds color to the surface, also known as the diffuse map. Note: If you are used to the Standard Shader in the built-in Unity render pipeline, these options are similar to the Main Maps settings in the Material Editor. For example, you can use these properties to make your surface look wet, dry, rough, or smooth. The Surface Inputs describe the surface itself. If you untick this box, the GameObject will not have shadows on it. Tick this box to enable your GameObject to have shadows cast upon it by other objects. For example, a threshold of 0.1 means that URP doesn't render alpha values below 0.1. All values above your threshold are fully opaque, and all values below your threshold are invisible. You can set the Threshold by moving the slider, which accepts values from 0 to 1. To achieve this effect, URP does not render alpha values below the specified Threshold, which appears when you enable Alpha Clipping. Use this to create a transparent effect with hard edges between the opaque and transparent areas. Makes your Material act like a Cutout Shader. This is good for small, flat objects, like leaves, where you might want both sides visible. This is the default setting.īack Face renders the front face of your geometry and culls the front face.īoth makes URP render both faces of the geometry. Use this drop-down to determine which sides of your geometry to render.įront Face renders the front face of your geometry and culls the back face. This creates a darker effect, like when you look through colored glass. Multiply multiplies the color of the Material with the color behind the surface. For example, imagine transparent glass.Īdditive adds an extra layer to the Material, on top of another surface. This means that only the reflected light is visible. Premultiply applies a similar effect to the Material as Alpha, but preserves reflections and highlights, even when your surface is transparent. This is useful for visuals that you want to be fully visible but to also fade over time, like clouds.

1 appears fully opaque, but the Material is still rendered during the Transparent render pass. Use this drop-down to determine how URP calculates the color of each pixel of the transparent Material by blending the Material with the background pixels.Īlpha uses the Material’s alpha value to change how transparent an object is. If you select Transparent, the Blending Mode drop-down appears. URP renders transparent Materials in a separate pass after opaque objects. Transparent surface types are affected by their background, and they can vary according to which type of transparent surface type you choose. Opaque surface types are always fully visible, regardless of what’s behind them. This determines which render pass URP renders the material in. Use this drop-down to apply an Opaque or Transparent surface type to the Material.

Unity texture packing manual#

For information on metallic or specular workflows, see this Manual page for the Standard built-in Shader in Unity. When you have made your choice, the main Texture options in the rest of the Inspector now follow your chosen workflow.

Use this drop-down menu to choose a workflow that fits your Textures, either Metallic and Specular. The Surface Options control how URP renders the Material on a screen. The Inspector window for this Shader contains these elements:

Click Shader, and select Universal Render Pipeline > Lit.

In your Project, create or find the Material you want to use the Shader on.

This Shader uses the most computationally heavy shading model in the Universal Render Pipeline (URP). Your light levels and reflections look lifelike and react properly across various lighting conditions, for example bright sunlight, or a dark cave. The Lit Shader lets you render real-world surfaces like stone, wood, glass, plastic, and metals in photo-realistic quality.