{"id":3714,"date":"2015-04-06T00:24:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T21:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2015-09-08T00:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T21:23:00","slug":"doom-style-billboard-shader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/06\/doom-style-billboard-shader\/","title":{"rendered":"Doom Style Billboard Shader"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"doom_billboard_shader_unity5_1\"<\/p>\n

Testing Doom style billboard shader, where you can look sprite from different angles, still not completely finished but enough for testing..<\/p>\n

* Note: I have no idea how the doom billboards work, just looking for similar style<\/p>\n

Related forum post:<\/strong> http:\/\/forum.unity3d.com\/threads\/relative-position-for-changing-2d-graphics-in-3d-environment.307086\/<\/a><\/p>\n

WebGL player:<\/strong>
\n*coming later*<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong>
\n* Shader still has few problems (like overlapping other billboards, could be optimized\/cleaned up etc), feel free to post improvements here or to github
\n* Unity 5.1 used
\nhttps:\/\/github.com\/unitycoder\/DoomStyleBillboardTest<\/a><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Updates:<\/strong>
\n– 08.09.2015: Added animated frames test<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Resources:<\/strong>
\n– Getting viewdir in shader: http:\/\/forum.unity3d.com\/threads\/viewdir-up-vector.173549\/<\/a>
\n– Should actually check how they do it in Unity Daggerfall : http:\/\/www.dfworkshop.net\/?cat=17<\/a><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Image#2:<\/strong> Dynamic batching seems to work<\/p>\n

\"doomspritebatching1\"(click to view)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Testing Doom style billboard shader, where you can look sprite from different angles, still not completely finished but enough for testing.. * Note: I have no idea how the doom billboards work, just looking for similar style Related forum post: http:\/\/forum.unity3d.com\/threads\/relative-position-for-changing-2d-graphics-in-3d-environment.307086\/ WebGL player: *coming later* […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[727,726,725,729,14,728,357],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shaders","category-unity3d","tag-angle","tag-billboard","tag-doom","tag-frame","tag-shader","tag-sheet","tag-sprite"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/doom_billboard_shader_unity5_1.jpg?fit=680%2C384&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1KTaT-XU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3957,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/3957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}