Beginner in Graphics - On a Quest to do the foliage from the Witness

[MadAboutPandas3]

Hi,

You (hardcorebadger, AcidArrow) combined two features:
One is to fade out away the face when almost perpedicular to the camera view.

Cross-billboards and fading of camera-perpendicular quads

Here’s a screenshot of my game in development, and as you can see I have crossed billboards for representing trees. What I would like to do is be able to fade the billboards as they get perpendicular to the camera or find some other way to make it look less jarring. Any suggestions or ideas are more than welcome! Thank you! [image]

The other is to use a normal vector which roughly point away from the center of model.

Lighting 3D trees

So we need two normals per vertex.

I want to combine these features in my tree. My idea is to simply interpret the local position of each vertex as its second normal! The origin of the fluffy tree mesh top will be somewhere inside the trunk, it think on the ground. I tried it in Unlit and Surface Shader, but it did not work.

Can somebody help?

Kind Regards,
Chris