sg shader general - /3/

Anonymous01/06/25, 18:27No.1004856/sg/ - shader general

a thread for discussion about shaders. show off, post exaples from others,your own node setups,code,tips,questions,etc.

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Anon01/06/25, 19:32No.1004860

Cris

Anon01/06/25, 19:58No.1004862

this is actually a nice idea for a thread. I hope something interesting comes off it. Anyway only noteworthy thing i have to show is this UV stitcher i made a while ago for the models i ripped off a game to change characters' clothes and such. Basically takes coordinates texture and then stretches the clothes over the base "Skin" texture. It works, but i wonder if there's something i could do better or make it more comfortable to work with. I'd love some kind of UI addon or script that would just let me set the image nodes as interface elements with a preview outside of the shader editor for quick access, like somewhere on the side panel.

Anon01/07/25, 01:07No.1004878

something I made a few months ago, very simple but very effective for my needs

Anon01/07/25, 01:08No.1004879

the thing about shaders is that you have to and should write them in the text editor.

Anon02/11/25, 05:46No.1007263

good thread bump

Anon02/11/25, 13:41No.1007292

Did this grainy look in eevee.

Anon03/25/25, 07:19No.1010068

bump

Anon04/30/25, 03:18No.1011272

>see shader thread >”oh it must be full of cool glsl/hlsl/slang code” >it’s just blender nodes poo

Anon04/30/25, 07:28No.1011280

I sometimes use shaders for compositing effects, here's one of my more complex recent setups. I'll post node tree in a sec but really, it's messy and for certain not optimized

Anon04/30/25, 14:38No.1011301

i think you shader programming nerds are very cute keep up the great work

Anon08/17/25, 18:01No.1017072

Is there any extensive documentation like the archwiki or gentoowiki, but for shaders? Can even be for programming shaders and not just the node system. Don't mind either way. I am targeting specifically NPR shading, but so long as the documentation is robust and covers all the working parts, it's good.

Anon08/19/25, 19:24No.1017186

(You): writes shader for a nice effect YouTroobers: >dissects model >fucks up shading >here's a replication of the effect >rib cage reveal lol

Anon09/16/25, 08:24No.1018691

cables

Anon09/16/25, 09:47No.1018695

how do you make procedural textures on purpose? most of the time I can fuck around with nodes and get something decent but it's basically RNG

Anon09/16/25, 10:40No.1018698

What even are materials? Is there a standard definition? Or it can be anything that contributes to how something looks? Wtf is specular/ambient/glossiness parameters? What they are replaced by PBR? But the specular/glossiness workflow of PBR looks exactly like the traditional system except you use textures for everything?

Anon09/16/25, 20:56No.1018725

OP looks gorgeous, how do you get it?

Anon09/16/25, 22:54No.1018727

Complete shader retard here, can I replicate this using flat materials in unreal or do I need to use vertex colors?

Anon09/21/25, 18:44No.1019032

how does the unreal engine eye shader make fake depth for the internal parts? there's no extra geometry in there, the cornea and iris are all on the same shader somehow parallax/fake depth type stuff? how does that work on non-flat surfaces?