Dissolve Shader

Options relevant to the orels1/Standard Dissolve shader and other Dissolve variants

This shader provides a customizable cutout dissolve effect on top of Standard. It can be used to create a variety of effects, from simple fade to more complex ones like the one shown below

Dissolve Inspector

• Cutoff: Any pixels with an alpha value below this value will be cut out
• Cutoff Range Min/Max: Controls the range of the cutoff value. This can be especially useful when using Fade Based On set to Local Position
• Fade Based On: Controls how the dissolve effect is applied. The values selected here will be then passed to the Alpha channel and used by the Cutoff to control the fade
  • Local Position: Fades the dissolve effect based on the mesh local position
  • UV: Fades the dissolve effect based on the UV coordinates
  • Texture: Fades the dissolve effect based on the value of the Fade texture. Generally is expected to be a gradient of some sort
• Fade Texture: The texture used to fade the dissolve effect. Only used when Fade Based On is set to Texture
• Fade Direction: Controls the direction of the applied fade gradient
  • X/Y: Fade in the X/Y direction
  • Z: Fade in the Z direction. When Fade Based On is set to UV, this will not apply any fading
  • Negative X/Y: Fade in the negative X/Y direction
  • Negative Z: Fade in the negative Z direction. When Fade Based On is set to UV, this will not apply any fading
  • When Fade Based On is set to Texture, X/Y/Z instead picks the R/G/B channels of the texture
• Debug Fade Gradient: Shows the fade gradient as a black to white albedo color on your mesh. Helps to visualize the settings of the fade gradient
• Use Baked Noise: Controls whether or not to multiply base gradient by a pre-baked noise texture. This can be used to add more randomness to the fade gradient
• Noise Scale: Only visible when Use Baked Noise is enabled. Controls the scale of the noise texture
• Noise Texture: Only visible when Use Baked Noise is enabled. The noise texture used to multiply the base gradient. By default will be set to a special noise texture that combines into a 3d noise
• Noise Strength: Only visible when Use Baked Noise is enabled. Controls the influence of the baked noise texture over the base gradient
• Scroll Speed (X,Y,Z): Controls the speed of the noise texture scrolling in the X/Y/Z direction
• Overlay Texture: Specifies an optional texture to multiply the base gradient by. Works best with tiling patterns. Can be used to add more detail to the fade gradient
• Overlay Channel: Only visible when Overlay Texture is set. Controls which channel of the overlay texture to use
• Overlay Strength: Only visible when Overlay Texture is set. Controls the influence of the overlay texture over the base gradient
• Add Glowing Border: Adds a glowing border near the cutout edge
• Border Width: Controls the width of the glowing border
• Border Color: Controls the color of the glowing border