Alpha mask to have a fading effect

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1

Hello everyone,

Am trying to make a fading effects with many styles (top-down, in-out, and vice versa)
and i think that the best way to do that is to have an alpha mask applied to the two textures that am gonna fade between, the alpha mask should be a gradient black and white image where white give 1.0 alpha and black give 0.0 (in respect of the value between)
so by drawing different gradient texture i will have different fading effects,
the question is :
is it possible to have that gradient texture applied to some material, so the main texture of that material will have different alpha values ??

thank you

2

creating a custom shader with this code solved the problem :

Shader "Custom/ShaderTest"
{
Properties {
    _Color ("Main Color", Color) = (1,1,1,1)
    _MainTex ("Base (RGB) Trans (A)", 2D) = "white" {}
    _AlphaMap ("Additional Alpha Map (Greyscale)", 2D) = "white" {}
}
 
SubShader {
    Tags {"Queue"="Transparent" "IgnoreProjector"="True" "RenderType"="Transparent"}
    LOD 200
 
CGPROGRAM
#pragma surface surf Lambert alpha
 
sampler2D _MainTex;
sampler2D _AlphaMap;
float4 _Color;
 
struct Input {
    float2 uv_MainTex;
};
 
void surf (Input IN, inout SurfaceOutput o) {
    half4 c = tex2D(_MainTex, IN.uv_MainTex) * _Color;
    o.Albedo = c.rgb;
    o.Alpha = c.a * tex2D(_AlphaMap, IN.uv_MainTex).r;
}
ENDCG
}
 
Fallback "Transparent/VertexLit"
}
3

Is there a way to do this same thing but with an unlit sprite shader instead of a surface??

Thanks!