Hey guys! I’ve been hard at work trying to code a set of shaders for rendering characters in Unity 3D. I want to include an eye shader, hair shader, and skin shader in the pack. Here’s some images of my progress so far:
And here’s a trailer video showing the shaders in action!
Comments and crit welcome 
Wow, that looks really good, love it!
But whats up with the creepy body texture? : D
Seems to be work in progress 
It looks really great. Especially the eye shader!
Thanks for the support, Virror and Mauri.
Those textures are WIP. When I’m making skin tight suiting for sci fi characters, I trace out the suit topology in zbrush using polypaint. That’s what the netting looking texture is. I guess it is a little strange if you don’t know what it is!
Did some research today; I think I’ve settled on an algorithm for the skin shader I want to make. I’ll keep you guys updated! Pack should be posted soon, tutorials soon after that.
Hi Panta, I have a clear and present need of a hair shader Is there any chance you might release before May? I kind of need to have it in my game in the next 2-3 weeks 
Hey anadin,
It doesn’t totally work yet unfortunately There’s a problem in DX11 mode and I also am having trouble with mip maps. I’ll try my best to release it next week when I go on break from university.
PS: will you be using it on mobile or desktop?
Great work, even now it looks a 1000 times better than the existing shaders that could be used for hair.
I assume the hair shader is double sided to display polygonal hair correctly?
Does it support alpha in the diffuse map and spec in the normal map?
You are correct! it is indeed double sided.
About the alpha - yes, it’s stored with the color map (which is actually just black and white - color comes from the shader variables)
For normal - I’m not sure how much you’ve played with Unity texture compression, but the method used for Normal maps in shaderlab does not support an alpha channel. This is confusing to a lot of people when they wonder why their spec map (in alpha of normal) disappears 
Therefore, spec is stored in a 3rd map, and the alpha is used for a noise/jitter pattern taken advantage of by the Kajiya kay lighting model. No wasted channels
Alright, have absolutely no plan of programing - just a 3d modeler.
But good to know about the double sided and that spec maps are supported.
Will definetively use the shaders.
Yes, thank you for your interest! I should release them next week while on break with an accompanying set of tools (for different eye colors/styles, etc.) and meet anadin’s schedule.
keep a look out!
Sorry,But what does ‘anadin’ or ‘anadian’s schedule’ mean?
“anadin” is the person who requested the hair shader before May, earlier in this thread.
;)…
Yeah, sorry, that’s what I meant by that.
Whoo Hoo! can’t wait
Any news? Still hoping for this shaders.
Yeah chomping at the bit, how is it going?
Sorry to bug you but is this still coming?
So sorry guys, I promise I’ll release this soon. I’m a senior in university and I’m incredibly stressed with trying to graduate this coming month. All my classes are piling up work. After May 15, I’m taking a 5 month break to work on a bunch of Unity stuff, so I’ll be able to finish it then. Also Anadin, huge Cubemen fan! That’s awesome that you’re interested in this kind of thing
Yeah Cubemen was fun to work on, I did the animations but did not have time to work on Cubemen 2 unfortunately - go buy it!!
In the meantime, is there any chance of buying the hair shader as is now? We are supposed to be final in about a week and I still don’t have one - eek!
