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Thanks for letting me know! I've been intending to push some fixes for Unity 6.4 for a little while now, so I'll try to implement them asap. I'm not sure why Unity decided to change the way EncodeMeshRenderingLayer works without a fallback which still includes the parameter because it seems like it broke a lot of shader assets, but hey.

These are both essentially the fixes I landed on and will be included in the next update! It will mostly be bug fixes, but I'm also planning on adding optional normal maps.

Oh sorry I missed this! Good spot, I will make sure this is fixed soon! Bit of an oversight on my part.

Hey! Turns out my estimate was way off - I just pushed an update with the option to quantize and dither the screen colors in the CRT effect. Just choose the Custom RGB Sliders option for Color Ramp Mode, and all the relevant options should appear!

Not sure exactly when I'll be able to publish the next update, but it's in the works right now. I've been updating some of my other asset packs this week, but I believe I'm mostly done with those for now, so I'm hoping to have something ready for this one in the next few days. Let's say by the end of next week as a very rough estimate?

Sorry for the slow reply! I think that's a good idea actually, some sliders (maybe even per-color channel sliders so you can quantize the red, green, and blue channels differently) would be helpful. Dithering in screen space within the CRT effect also makes sense, so I'll look into that too.

A bit of a late response, but I did add reflective cubemaps in the previous update! Just totally forgot to reply here. Let me know if you have any other feature requests - I may not be able to add everything, but I'm always open to ideas!

Hey! Sorry this is a ridiculously late response - I actually pushed an update a little while ago that overhauled the Retro Lit shader, which makes it possible to completely turn off vertex snapping. Before that, yes - the best approach would have been to set it to a high value.

Hey! Sorry for the late response - I just pushed an update that adds a flat shading toggle to the Retro Lit shader. It might not align the diffuse lighting perfectly with the Texel Lit shadows, but at least it's not smooth. I'll keep looking into ways to improve the shading further!

I think I'll look into adding dithered lighting at some point, it definitely looks nice!

That's pretty strange and I'm not immediately sure why fog would be broken. I'll try and look into it. Do you think it would be possible to send me the graph you made? My email address is in the README PDF, but if you're not able to send it then no worries, hopefully I can figure out the problem without it.

Hey, other people have requested this too and I think it'd be a great addition! I'm definitely thinking of adding it in the next update, which I've been working on for the last few days. Hopefully I can release it soon!

Yes - these shaders let you use vertex colour painting like that! I haven't included any painting tools in the package but I think you can find those elsewhere. You can also do per-vertex lighting with Unity's regular lights. I'm currently working on an update that should go live in a bit which will make vertex lighting work more reliably!

I think you can ignore the message - I assume everything looks right in the Game View? I'd also check in builds just in case, but if the feature is attached to your Weapon Renderer then it should function okay on just that renderer.

When I added that error message, I intended it to help most users who probably only use a single renderer in their scene, but I'll think about how to handle cases where you're using multiple cameras because currently it's evidently a bit confusing.

Hey, just to let you know - I just pushed a new update which lets you choose whether to run the CRT effect before or after URP's internal post processing (which included bloom). If you choose After, then it should process the bloom properly, and I was able to see it working as intended with Shuriken and the URP particle material. Hopefully that fixes your problem - but please let me know if you're still facing problems with emission!

Hey! Just to let you know - I just pushed an update that includes dithering. I chose to include it in the Retro Lit shader rather than the CRT filter so you have more control over which objects use dithering, and because Retro Lit already supported color bit limiting, but I hope that's close enough to what you needed!

Oh I see exactly what you mean! I'm not immediately sure what the issue is, so I'll look into it and try and find the source of the problem. Thanks for letting me know!

Hey! I just tried adding Bloom to a test scene and it seems to work okay for me, so there must be something else going on here! Are you able to share more details about how you've set up your CRT and Bloom effects so I can try and find out if there's a more specific problem? Maybe there's just certain settings that break it that I wasn't aware of.

Mind if I check which render pipeline you are on? The URP version of the pack supports Render Graph! Or at least, it should do - if you are having problems then please let me know! I'll admit that HDRP support for Unity 6 is still something I need to check.

Those are great suggestions, thanks! I've been working on the CRT filter the last few days actually (thinking of adding a few VHS damage effects), so I'll see if I can work those in. At least, dithering has been on my mind a while.

Hey, it's just gone live on the Asset Store! Let me know if that solves your issue!

Ah yeah, it usually takes the Asset Store a while to process updates. Hopefully it'll be live soon enough, on my end it just says "a few business days left" which is very unhelpful!

Hey, just to let you know - I've been working on this today and I've added a toggle to switch between point filtering and bilinear filtering in the CRT effect. I think that should fix the problem you were having! I'm uploading the update right now so hopefully you can try it out in a few minutes.

Been working on this today and I believe I have fixed some, but not all, problems with lighting. The problem in efenigma's video should be fixed. The problem sBarz was having with Retro Vertex Lit might still be there.

Forward+ lighting should generally be more stable, but I fear I might not be able to get the Retro Vertex Lit shader on par with the regular Retro Lit shader because of the way the shader needs to poll the additional lights. I don't know if it's even possible to do what I want to do only in the vertex shader, but I'll keep experimenting.

Either way, I'm uploading an update as we speak. Hopefully that fixes some of the issues!

Good to know, I've seen a couple of other problems with Forward+ so I'll focus on that and try and narrow it down!

That is weird! Does this happen in a particular rendering path (forward, forward+ or deferred)? I'll try and find the root cause of the problem and get back to you with a fix!

Hey, sorry I missed this! When you reduce the reference resolution, the internal texture used for the CRT effect will resize itself. If I remember correctly, it uses bilinear filtering, which would look blurry when the resolution is low enough. I can look into adding a toggle to use point filtering for a crisper image instead. Thanks for letting me know!

Oh and also, I'm not sure if the vertex painting tool will get added for sure - I did look into what would be needed for that and it would be a lot of work. There seem to be vertex painting tools out there that might just do what people need anyway. I did release the N64-style 3-point bilinear filter shader earlier today though!

There might be a few unforseen problems with certain platforms. I'll admit I didn't test out WebGL builds, but I have heard before that there are certain shader features that straight up don't work on that platform. The noperspective keyword, which drives the affine texture mapping effect, might be one of them. I'll have to test out the CRT effect with WebGL but I really hope it's feasible to get running, but thanks for letting me know about these problems.

That's actually a bit weird that the base texture isn't preserved - if you mean you're going from Lit to Retro Lit, they both use _BaseMap as the shader reference and I think Unity is meant to keep textures in that case. I'll see if I can get that fixed.

With the surface options menu bit, I can probably find a way to auto-open that, although I'm not sure which people would generally prefer. Interestingly, I had to create that whole bit from scratch - I really wish there were a way to just click a button somewhere and Unity just adds that whole section, but nope, it involves a fair bit of editor scripting!

Hey! I can look into adding back the Render Pass Event options, hopefully that would solve your problem. Not sure what the issue is that prevents both these assets working well together, but if I were to test my own shaders with other assets I'd be here for an eternity of course! Did the game look different between editor and build in previous Unity versions?

Sorry, I missed this! I'll take a look at this and see if I can get shadow casting working. I'm aware some people have had problems with the grass shader so I will try and get to the bottom of them!

Hey! Still in the process of squashing a few bugs people have reported, and after that, I plan on adding some shaders that people have asked for: an N64 3-point "bilinear" filter shader, a flipbook and billboard shader, dithering, and maybe also a vertex painting tool. 

Obviously all of that is subject to change, and I'm always happy to hear feature requests (although I may not add all requests of course)!

I've updated the pack for the Forward+ and Deferred rendering paths, with support for additional point and spot lights, and stuff like vertex colors. Gonna work on adding even more features over time!

For sure! Definitely looking into more lighting options, and a billboard shader is a neat idea. So is a flipbook shader. Do you know what specifically you would be looking for with an N64 shader that's different to the PSX shader? I'm preparing a new update and more of the PSX stuff (like affine textures) will be toggleable.

Should be fixed now - let me know if you're still having issues with the shaders!

I shall look into this! Does this happen with all effects or just Blur?

I suspect I know what's happening and I will try to get a fix ready asap. Thanks for letting me know there's an issue!

Hey, thanks for sharing with me!

Looks quite strange indeed - not sure what would cause lines that are all broken up like that. I assume it's because the shader is trying to sample pixels outside the bounds of the screen, although it should clamp to the edges. I'll look into this!

Which render pipeline are you using?

Thanks for letting me know - do you see anything at all or do they show up as magenta? Also, which Unity version and render pipeline are you using?

Officially, the version I created the pack with is Unity 2022.3.0f1, and typically LTS minor version releases don't massively break compatability. So although I didn't specifically test 2022.3.4, there's no reason it shouldn't work in that version. Support for the Unity 6 beta is also a bit wonky but I am actively developing that.

Yes! I'm always on the lookout for suggestions and I did plan on expanding the selection of effects in this pack - that's definitely on the list.