For complex or procedural meshes, instead of texturing them using the regular UV coordinates, it is sometimes useful to just “project” texture onto the object from three primary directions. This is called “tri-planar” texturing. The idea is to use surface normal to weight the three texture directions. Here’s the shaderA program that runs on the GPU. More info
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Shader "Unlit/Triplanar"
{
Properties
{
_MainTex ("Texture", 2D) = "white" {}
_Tiling ("Tiling", Float) = 1.0
_OcclusionMap("Occlusion", 2D) = "white" {}
}
SubShader
{
Pass
{
CGPROGRAM
#pragma vertex vert
#pragma fragment frag
#include "UnityCG.cginc"
struct v2f
{
half3 objNormal : TEXCOORD0;
float3 coords : TEXCOORD1;
float2 uv : TEXCOORD2;
float4 pos : SV_POSITION;
};
float _Tiling;
v2f vert (float4 pos : POSITION, float3 normal : NORMAL, float2 uv : TEXCOORD0)
{
v2f o;
o.pos = UnityObjectToClipPos(pos);
o.coords = pos.xyz * _Tiling;
o.objNormal = normal;
o.uv = uv;
return o;
}
sampler2D _MainTex;
sampler2D _OcclusionMap;
fixed4 frag (v2f i) : SV_Target
{
// use absolute value of normal as texture weights
half3 blend = abs(i.objNormal);
// make sure the weights sum up to 1 (divide by sum of x+y+z)
blend /= dot(blend,1.0);
// read the three texture projections, for x,y,z axes
fixed4 cx = tex2D(_MainTex, i.coords.yz);
fixed4 cy = tex2D(_MainTex, i.coords.xz);
fixed4 cz = tex2D(_MainTex, i.coords.xy);
// blend the textures based on weights
fixed4 c = cx * blend.x + cy * blend.y + cz * blend.z;
// modulate by regular occlusion map
c *= tex2D(_OcclusionMap, i.uv);
return c;
}
ENDCG
}
}
}
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