Triplanar Effects Shader

Options relevant to the orels1/Standard Triplanar Effects shader

This shader adds world-aligned triplanar effects like Damage and Dirt to the meshes, which helps with breaking up the visible tiling and quickly adds variance to your textures

Layered Material Variant

These effects are also available for the Layered Material version of the shader, they behave the same way

Triplanar Demo

Triplanar Effects Inspector

General Settings

Triplanar Masks: Specifies the texture to be used for applying the effects. Different channels are used for different things. The number besides the texture slot controls the scale of the texture
- Red: Currently Unused
- Green: Used as a Damage mask
- Blue: Used as a Dirt mask
- Alpha: Currently Unused

Dirt

Dirt Demo

Dirt Mode: Controls how the dirt effect is applied. Options are: None/Local Space/World Space, where the Local Space and World space control only the masking of the dirt effect. The actual dirt texture is always applied in world space
Dirt Mask Power: Controls the expansion of the dirt mask, as well as the contrast of the dirt applied
Dirt Color: Controls the tint of the dirt applied
Dirt Smoothness: Modifies the smoothness of the surface where dirt is applied
Dirt Gradient Min: Controls the start position of the dirt mask gradient, the space of the coordinates is defined by the Dirt Mode setting
Dirt Gradient Max: Controls the end position of the dirt mask gradient, the space of the coordinates is defined by the Dirt Mode setting
Dirt Opacity: Controls the global opacity of the dirt, 0 completely kills the effect
Use Planar Mask: Limits the dirt to being applied only to the bottom facing parts of the mesh

Another example of using Dirt to break up visual tiling

Damage

Damage can provide a simple way to add visual chipping/discoloration to a lot of meshes while keeping it all the same material

Using the Damage effect and a Normal map to create a more dented/damaged look

Damage Mode: Controls whether the damage is enabled or not
Damage Albedo: An extra albedo texture to use to apply the damage coloring, if not provided - will tint the underlying surface by the Damage Color. The number beside it controls the tiling of it and the Damage Normal texture
Damage Color: Controls the tint of the damaged areas Smoothness Min - Max: Adjusts the smoothness range of the damaged surface
Damage Normal: Applies the provided normal texture in the areas masked by the Triplanar Mask. The slider besides it controls the intensity of the normal
Flip Y (UE Mode): Similar to the main normal map - allows flipping the green channel for the DirectX-created normal maps
Damage Amount: The global effect strength slider