Blueshade Basic is a comprehensive and flexible shader package designed to meet various needs in the world of 3D graphics. Whether you're working on creating immersive worlds, captivating avatars, realistic metallic surfaces, or eye-catching emissive materials, Blueshade Basic has you covered. It offers a versatile and user-friendly system that combines ease of use with extensive customization options, making it a go-to choice for a wide range of applications.
One of the standout features of Blueshade Basic is its ability to handle different shading styles. It excels in delivering stunning toon shading, standard shading, animation shading, and overrender shading, allowing you to achieve the desired visual style for your project. Whether you're aiming for a cartoonish, realistic, or stylized look, Blueshade Basic provides the necessary tools and capabilities.
Blueshade Basic offers an impressive array of features to enhance your visuals. These include:
- Matcaps: Create materials that mimic the appearance of real-world surfaces with Matcaps, spherical images used for shading.
- Glitter: Add sparkling and shimmering effects to your objects, giving them a touch of magic or glamour.
- Outlines: Enhance object visibility by adding outlines that define their silhouette, making them stand out.
- Reflections: Achieve realistic reflections on your materials, simulating the way light interacts with different surfaces.
- Shadows: Control and customize the appearance of shadows cast by objects, creating depth and realism in your scenes.
- Emissions: Make your materials emit light, allowing you to create glowing or illuminated objects.
- Fresnel: Apply the Fresnel effect to materials, creating a variation in appearance based on the viewing angle.
- Lighting: Manipulate lighting in your scenes, adjusting factors such as intensity, color, and direction for desired atmospheres.
- Audiolink: Sync visual effects with audio elements for immersive experiences that react to sound cues.
- Overlay: Overlay additional textures or effects onto materials, enabling intricate layering and detailing.
- Perspective: Customize perspective and camera effects, altering the way your scene is presented to viewers.
- Rim Lighting: Highlight object edges or rims, accentuating their shape and adding a subtle glow.
- Specular: Control the behavior of specular highlights, which are reflections of direct light sources on surfaces.
These features, along with many more, make Blueshade Basic a powerful and versatile tool for creating stunning visuals in Unity projects. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced user, Blueshade Basic provides an intuitive interface and extensive customization options to bring your creative vision to life.
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WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT FROM POIYOMI TOON OR POIYOMI PRO?
there are multiple differences between poiyomi and blueshade and each are for their own use cases
Poiyomi requires locking due to the amount of stuff it has to do Blueshade does not require locking and still takes up less VRAM than poiyomi both locked and unlocked, but that can change due to a multitude of factors like texture size.
Poiyomi requires a bunch of textures to perform simple animations or effects, Blueshade does not require these textures and use instead math to figure out based off what you select example. Under overlay you will find animations. Here are the list of animations. This also does make blueshade slightly more intensive but not enough to cause issues.
Some of these animations also can be more diverse as poiyomi is still quite limited with only textures to define.
Blueshade and poiyomi when it comes to audiolink
Both support audiolink but blueshade automatically defines specific segments when it comes to emission i made it easier to apply audiolink without needing to mess around with so much and in the future there will be easier ways to define what audiolink does.
Poiyomi is also built for 1 platform in mind VRChat, blueshade is built for a multitude of platforms and tested to work properly from vrchat to chilloutvr its all tested properly.
Blueshade is future proofed by making use of SPI (Single Pass Instancing)
Blueshade is designed to be easier and quicker so you can finish what you want to do, Upload Avatars and worlds.
Remember both Blueshade and poiyomi both have their uses just because one seems like another doesn't mean they are the same.
Blueshade Basic =/= Poiyomi Toon/Pro