The Retrograde Shader is a powerful tool for game developers looking to create a retro or anime-inspired aesthetic in their Unity game. This advanced shader combines high-performance capabilities with unique features like custom lighting and reflection effects, making it perfect for any kind of retro or anime-inspired game development.
Key features include:
- Quick and easy demastering of existing game assets
- A large collection of color palettes and dither patterns from classic games and systems
- Advanced features that save on size, performance, and development time
- Support for VR, Forward+, and reflection probe blending and box projection
- A mesh outline shader inspired by cel animation
With the Retrograde Shader, you can achieve a unique and eye-catching look for your game without sacrificing performance. Whether you're creating a retro-style platformer or an anime-inspired RPG, this shader has got you covered.
Technical Details:
- Texture and Object Palettization: Large collection of gradient maps and lookup tables (LUTs) indexed from rare and historic hardware and software color palettes
- Texture and Screen Dithering: Large collection of various dither patterns and textures
- Custom Lighting Node: Extensive customization for both main and additional lights
- Baked GI: Modify the baked GI texture with various effects
- Normal Map and Object Normal Editing: Quantization and distortion of normals for various lighting and color effects
- Mipmapping: Improves mipmap blending for unfiltered textures
- Specular Reflection: Physically based approximation with artist-friendly control
- Transparency: Transparency and alpha clipping
- Vertex Color and Alpha: Use vertex color and alpha for additional detail
- Additional Features: Glow, paint, and debris layers for additional detail
- Fog: Radial and vertical fog
- Customizable Shader Graph: Organized shader graph with clean layout, color coding, and comments
- Shader Variants: 3 shader variants for performance and render pipeline compatibility
- Mesh Outline Shader: Inspired by imperfections found in cel animation
- Simple Character Controller: For navigating the demo scene
Keywords: retro shader, anime shader, unity shader, retro aesthetic, anime aesthetic, custom lighting, reflection effects, texture palettization, screen dithering, mipmapping, specular reflection, transparency, vertex color, alpha, fog, customizable shader graph, shader variants, mesh outline shader, simple character controller
Retrograde Shader: A Vintage Aesthetic for Unity - Asset Store
