Mar
18
2020

Shader: Color Cycling

An article by mgear

Color Cycling Shader test, because.

Shader Source:
https://github.com/UnityCommunity/UnityLibrary/blob/master/Assets/Shaders/2D/Effects/ColorCycle.shader

Gradient used

How it works?
Gray color value is used to pick color from the gradient, if gray texture pixel is 0.5, then you get that turquoise color from gradient texture.

Tags: color, cycle, cycling, deluxe paint, shader

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Russ Painter 22/03/2020 at 09:11

Ooooh… Retro palette shifting could make a comeback!

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Ege 22/06/2020 at 20:43

I tried this but i only get red color even if i change the speed parameter. Don’t know why, but I want to use this shader a lot 🙁

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- mgear 22/06/2020 at 22:19
  
  if you assign this shader to default sphere,
  with Default-Particle as grayscale texture,
  and the gradient png from above, do you get this kind of image?
  https://pasteboard.co/Jej6cDe.png
  
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Hayden Matthews 24/11/2020 at 23:03

Thanks a lot for this. I actually used it for making some animated backgrounds like in Earthbound and had some pretty good results!

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Tunasz 28/09/2021 at 02:28

This is working and great! Thank you for making it! I did managed to expend upon this with a mask feature, because I couldn’t found one with a mask. So if anyone wants a masked version of this you can get it here: https://github.com/KarsaiTamas/Unity-Color-Cycle-shader-with-Mask/tree/main

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- mgear 28/09/2021 at 09:04
  
  thanks for sharing!
  
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