Color Bleed Effect

Unity Engine
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Hey everyone, I’ve been looking everywhere for how to do an effect I need for my game. What I want is as the player is moving through a black and white world, I want to bleed colors that turns the world into color as the bleeding expands leaving a trail of colored world.

The closest I have come to finding this effect is this:

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But this in only a global effect. It doesn’t help me as far as leaving a trail behind.

Does anybody have any advice on how I can accomplish this?

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Use render texture to store mask, and use that mask for blend colored and grayscale zonese.
A mask can be drawn, like this for example.

Shader "Unlit/UvTest"
{
    Properties
    {
        _MainTex ("Texture", 2D) = "white" {}
        _BrushColor("Brush color", Color) = (1,.5,.5,1)
        _BrushSize("Brush size", Float) = 1
    }
    SubShader
    {
        Tags { "RenderType"="Opaque" }
        Cull Off

        Pass
        {
            CGPROGRAM
            #pragma vertex vert
            #pragma fragment frag

            #include "UnityCG.cginc"

            struct appdata
            {
                float4 vertex : POSITION;
                float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
            };

            struct v2f
            {
                float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
                float4 vertex : SV_POSITION;
                float4 worldPos : TEXCOORD1;
            };

            sampler2D _MainTex;
            float4 _MainTex_ST;
            float4 _BrushPos;
            fixed4 _BrushColor;
            float _BrushSize;

            v2f vert (appdata v)
            {
                v2f o;
                o.vertex = float4(v.uv.x-0.5, -v.uv.y+0.5, 0, 0.5);
                o.worldPos = mul(unity_ObjectToWorld, v.vertex);
                o.uv = TRANSFORM_TEX(v.uv, _MainTex);
                return o;
            }

            fixed4 frag (v2f i) : SV_Target
            {
                // sample the texture
                fixed4 col = tex2D(_MainTex, i.uv);
                float dist = distance(i.worldPos, float4(_BrushPos.xyz, 1));
                fixed t = smoothstep(0,_BrushSize,dist);
                col = lerp(_BrushColor, col, t);
                return col;
                // return t.xxxx;
            }
            ENDCG
        }
    }
}

using UnityEngine;

[ExecuteInEditMode]
public class BrushPositionSetter : MonoBehaviour
{
    void Update()
    {
        Shader.SetGlobalVector("_BrushPos", transform.position);
    }
}

The same render texture is used for both input and output.
It’s works but I do not know how to get rid of the black edging on the borders of the UV islands.

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Thanks! That’s a lot closer to what I’m looking for. Where does the material go and I assume the setter going on the orb you paint with?

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Here package with current setup, just for demonstrate conception, I think is better idea use camera controlled from script, or even something like drawMeshNow.

4797641–458651–3dBrush.unitypackage (31.4 KB)

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Thanks again. Your project works only I’m not getting the same result as in your video. It’s working more like a spotlight or a projector. Not actually leaving any trail behind.

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I don’t know what is happened, may by something was corrupted due version mismatch. Here I iterate thru all things to show settings.

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Hi there, same here. How are you leaving the trail behind? I’m trying to recreate the shader in shadergraph

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