Dark Comic Master Shader

A general use shader for Unity's Universal Render Pipeline, for creating games with a dark comic book aesthetic. Inspired by games like The Wolf Among Us, Darkest Dungeon, and Curse of the Dead Gods.

The models in the preview shots were created for Adios, most by me, some by UprightBlue.

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 - (TL:DR; you can use it however you want, including for commercial projects, but you must credit me if you do)

Requirements:

• Universal Render Pipeline
• Shader Graph Markdown is required for the material editor to look correct, but the shader will still work without it.

Known Issues:

• Does not support Screen Space Shadows.
• Doesn't play nice with baked lighting - it makes some of the effects necessary to pull off the lighting tricks really hard.
  • Does however support a single baked directional light in shadowmask mode. All other lights need to be realtime.

Features:

• Blend Modes:
  • All the usual suspects - opaque, alpha cutoff, transparent
  • Transparent preserves specular, for making windows
  • Refraction support!
• Sharpened line art mask
  • Stays sharp at a distance, without aliasing
• Paint masking
  • Mask Channel B controls where paint colors are applied, making model recoloring easy.
• Separate lighting controls for:
  • Diffuse
  • Specular
  • Reflections
  • Ambient
• Textured lighting
  • Single channel, or multi-channel crosshatching
  • Multiple lighting texture mapping modes:
    • Screen-space
    • View Direction
    • Screen-Stable
    • World Space
    • Object Space
• Controls for fine-tuning most aspects of lighting
• Stylized reflections
  • Crank up the strength edge-on views for edge highlights
• View aligned rim light
  • Makes light wrap around object edges when facing the light, creating a rim lit effect

Creating Lighting Textures:
There are a few important settings that you should set up on your textures used for lighting (see the example textures download).

• sRGB Disabled
• Compression: None