Selective glow effect per object.
You define which objects to glow with an individual Glow texture.
Works on mobile and desktop.
Compatible with Single Pass Stereo Rendering.
Compatible with GPU Instancing.
There are 3 types of image effects for SM2.0 (Diagonal), SM3.0 (Both diagonal and Vertical/Horizontal)
It works with any unity provided shader including the standard ones as well as any custom shaders which follow unity RenderType naming schemes.
Glow is occluded properly with any of the above mentioned shaders.
There is a new update on the way which includes minor bug fixes and make the package compatible with VR Single pass stereo rendering.
New update Works 2017.2 and onwards only.
I do not intend to support previous versions, so make a backup copy.
Can you give me an idea of performance impact? We’re using another glow shader now, and we often have 25-30 animated objects onscreen, all with selective glow, and it uses 3.5-4.5ms on the CPU (and a good CPU). Would love to buy this if yours is a lot more performant!
My package doesnt care how many objects are on screen, it does create a correctly occluded fullscreen mask and applies the effect in one pass. It is also up to you to make things more beautiful or more performant.
In my average demo running in the editor, the profiler says 0.25ms and im on a Intel core i7-6700 3.4ghz with an ancient amd radeon r7 200
I can go up to 1ms and make the glow more beautiful, or i can go much lower. Its up to you.
Looks like there’s no way to adjust the color intensity, right? I’ve adjusted the color on the texture, but it is still quite intense even with the texture becoming quite desaturated.
Try to make the glow texture use darker colors for less intensive parts and try to use brighter colors for the opposite.
Or, if you dont care to add an alpha channel to your glow texture, add it and edit the TextureMask.shader line 36 as follows: return fixed4(result * mask.a, 1.0);
This way your alpha channel will control the intensity of the glow colors. However, i strongly advise against it and its better to make a nicer glow texture with rgb channels only instead.
So we have a tricky situation with one animal in our game – the model has four meshes, and we need the third mesh to glow, but TOZ Glow uses the first mesh, no option to choose a different one. This is a very complicated rigged animal, so reordering the meshes in the model is not a good option. Is there any way we can assign the glow to (a) affect all meshes, or (b) just one selected mesh?
1- When you say “four meshes”, if you mean individual meshes, all you have to do is attach the GlowController.cs file to the transform whichever has the mesh renderer you want to glow.
2- If you mean it has only one mesh renderer but has multi-material, you can edit the GlowController.cs file and change the material variable to be an array value in Awake function: material = GetComponent().materials[3]
If you want all the multi-materials to glow, then you do the material as an array itself, and all other functions must be in a for loop.
3- If the object(s) have a material in your project folder, you can edit the GlowController.cs file as to make the material a public variable and delete the Awake function and attach the script to any game object you want. But beware that this effect is actually per-material, so any other object using the same material will also glow.
Just a side note, there is a bug in the code that when you use material instead of sharedMaterial, i forgot to destroy the material and it is leaking at the moment. I will release a bug fix version soon. But if you are in a hurry, just edit the GlowController.cs file and add the following:
void OnDestroy() {
Destroy(material);
}
If any of the above sounds confusing, just send me the animal model and i will send you the custom package for it.
It works on mobile and it works very fast. Actually, it is meant to work on a mobile platform as default, for desktops there is room for more beautiful effect. Also works on VR gadgets.
Just submitted the new v3.0 update to the AssetStore. It will take some days until it will be alive on the Assetstore, but you can also buy it right now from TOZ Market.
