Terrain Advanced Shader¶
Note
For this shader to work you must bake lighting information into mesh tangents. To do this, attach the Lightmapping Options script to any objects using a material with this shader and tick the Encode In Tangents option.
Shader Path: BallisticNG -> Terrain -> Terrain Advanced
The terrain advanced shader is a complicated material that allows you to blend textures using vertex colors. It also provides you with additional options for perlin noise based color tinting and UV scaling.
This is a simpler version of Terrain Advanced Plus Shader
Blender Material Helper¶
If you’re using Blender we’ve provided Vertex Color Blend Material.blend in the game’s modding folder. Append this to your blender scene, import the material and then use blenders shader editor to assign textures to red, green and blue inputs. Now use the material preview render mode in the scene view and you can preview the textures for your terrain as you paint the colors on!
Properties¶
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Noise Period | The disorder for the perlin noise. |
| Noise Scale | The scale of the perlin noise. |
| Red Texture | The texture to blend into with the red channel in the vertex colors. |
| Red Noise Tint A/B | The tint colors for the red texture to blend between using the perlin noise. |
| Green Texture | The texture to blend into with the green channel in the vertex colors. |
| Green Noise Tint A/B | The tint colors for the green texture to blend between using the perlin noise. |
| Blue Texture | The texture to blend into with the blue channel in the vertex colors. |
| Blue Noise Tint A/B | The tint colors for the blue texture to blend between using the perlin noise. |
| Alpha Texture | The texture to blend into with the alpha channel in the vertex colors. |
| Alpha Noise Tint A/B | The tint colors for the alpha texture to blend between using the perlin noise. |
| Uv Settings | Controls UV scaling over a distance. X is the distance where the minimum scale is. Y is the distance where the maximum scale is. Y is the minumum scale. W is the maximum scale. |
| Color | The tint of the terrain. |
| Fog Color | The color of the shaders built in fog. |
| Fog Distance | The distance at which the built in fog will reach its maximum opacity. |
| Allow Distance Clip | Whether the material will be distance clipped with the game’s distance clipping option. |
| Allow Affine Mapping | Whether affine mapping should be enabled on this material. |
| Affine Blend | How intense the affine mapping is. |