GLSL Programming/Unity/Glossy Textures
This tutorial covers per-pixel lighting of partially glossy, textured surfaces.
It combines the shader code of Template:GLSL Programming Unity SectionRef and Template:GLSL Programming Unity SectionRef to compute per-pixel lighting with a material color for diffuse reflection that is determined by the RGB components of a texture and an intensity of the specular reflection that is determined by the A component of the same texture. If you haven't read those sections, this would be a very good opportunity to read them.
Gloss Mapping
In Template:GLSL Programming Unity SectionRef, the material constant for the diffuse reflection was determined by the RGB components of a texture image. Here we extend this technique and determine the strength of the specular reflection by the A (alpha) component of the same texture image. Using only one texture offers a significant performance advantage, in particular because an RGBA texture lookup is under certain circumstances just as expensive as an RGB texture lookup.
If the “gloss” of a texture image (i.e. the strength of the specular reflection) is encoded in the A (alpha) component of an RGBA texture image, we can simply multiply the material constant for the specular reflection with the alpha component of the texture image. was introduced in Template:GLSL Programming Unity SectionRef and appears in the specular reflection term of the Phong reflection model:
If multiplied with the alpha component of the texture image, this term reaches its maximum (i.e. the surface is glossy) where alpha is 1, and it is 0 (i.e. the surface is not glossy at all) where alpha is 0.
Shader Code for Per-Pixel Lighting
The shader code is a combination of the per-pixel lighting from Template:GLSL Programming Unity SectionRef and the texturing from Template:GLSL Programming Unity SectionRef. Similarly to Template:GLSL Programming Unity SectionRef, the RGB components of the texture color in textureColor is multiplied to the diffuse material color _Color.
In the particular texture image Template:Hide in printTemplate:Only in print, the alpha component is 0 for water and 1 for land. However, it should be the water that is glossy and the land that isn't. Thus, with this particular image, we should multiply the specular material color with (1.0 - textureColor.a). On the other hand, usual gloss maps would require a multiplication with textureColor.a. (Note how easy it is to make this kind of changes to a shader program.)
Shader "GLSL per-pixel lighting with texture" {
Properties {
_MainTex ("RGBA Texture For Material Color", 2D) = "white" {}
_Color ("Diffuse Material Color", Color) = (1,1,1,1)
_SpecColor ("Specular Material Color", Color) = (1,1,1,1)
_Shininess ("Shininess", Float) = 10
}
SubShader {
Pass {
Tags { "LightMode" = "ForwardBase" }
// pass for ambient light and first light source
GLSLPROGRAM
// User-specified properties
uniform sampler2D _MainTex;
uniform vec4 _Color;
uniform vec4 _SpecColor;
uniform float _Shininess;
// The following built-in uniforms (except _LightColor0)
// are also defined in "UnityCG.glslinc",
// i.e. one could #include "UnityCG.glslinc"
uniform vec3 _WorldSpaceCameraPos;
// camera position in world space
uniform mat4 _Object2World; // model matrix
uniform mat4 _World2Object; // inverse model matrix
uniform vec4 _WorldSpaceLightPos0;
// direction to or position of light source
uniform vec4 _LightColor0;
// color of light source (from "Lighting.cginc")
varying vec4 position;
// position of the vertex (and fragment) in world space
varying vec3 varyingNormalDirection;
// surface normal vector in world space
varying vec4 textureCoordinates;
#ifdef VERTEX
void main()
{
mat4 modelMatrix = _Object2World;
mat4 modelMatrixInverse = _World2Object; // unity_Scale.w
// is unnecessary because we normalize vectors
position = modelMatrix * gl_Vertex;
varyingNormalDirection = normalize(vec3(
vec4(gl_Normal, 0.0) * modelMatrixInverse));
gl_Position = gl_ModelViewProjectionMatrix * gl_Vertex;
textureCoordinates = gl_MultiTexCoord0;
}
#endif
#ifdef FRAGMENT
void main()
{
vec3 normalDirection = normalize(varyingNormalDirection);
vec3 viewDirection =
normalize(_WorldSpaceCameraPos - vec3(position));
vec3 lightDirection;
float attenuation;
vec4 textureColor =
texture2D(_MainTex, vec2(textureCoordinates));
if (0.0 == _WorldSpaceLightPos0.w) // directional light?
{
attenuation = 1.0; // no attenuation
lightDirection = normalize(vec3(_WorldSpaceLightPos0));
}
else // point or spot light
{
vec3 vertexToLightSource =
vec3(_WorldSpaceLightPos0 - position);
float distance = length(vertexToLightSource);
attenuation = 1.0 / distance; // linear attenuation
lightDirection = normalize(vertexToLightSource);
}
vec3 ambientLighting = vec3(gl_LightModel.ambient)
* vec3(_Color) * vec3(textureColor);
vec3 diffuseReflection = attenuation * vec3(_LightColor0)
* vec3(_Color) * vec3(textureColor)
* max(0.0, dot(normalDirection, lightDirection));
vec3 specularReflection;
if (dot(normalDirection, lightDirection) < 0.0)
// light source on the wrong side?
{
specularReflection = vec3(0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
// no specular reflection
}
else // light source on the right side
{
specularReflection = attenuation * vec3(_LightColor0)
* vec3(_SpecColor) * (1.0 - textureColor.a)
// for usual gloss maps: "... * textureColor.a"
* pow(max(0.0, dot(
reflect(-lightDirection, normalDirection),
viewDirection)), _Shininess);
}
gl_FragColor = vec4(ambientLighting
+ diffuseReflection + specularReflection, 1.0);
}
#endif
ENDGLSL
}
Pass {
Tags { "LightMode" = "ForwardAdd" }
// pass for additional light sources
Blend One One // additive blending
GLSLPROGRAM
// User-specified properties
uniform sampler2D _MainTex;
uniform vec4 _Color;
uniform vec4 _SpecColor;
uniform float _Shininess;
// The following built-in uniforms (except _LightColor0)
// are also defined in "UnityCG.glslinc",
// i.e. one could #include "UnityCG.glslinc"
uniform vec3 _WorldSpaceCameraPos;
// camera position in world space
uniform mat4 _Object2World; // model matrix
uniform mat4 _World2Object; // inverse model matrix
uniform vec4 _WorldSpaceLightPos0;
// direction to or position of light source
uniform vec4 _LightColor0;
// color of light source (from "Lighting.cginc")
varying vec4 position;
// position of the vertex (and fragment) in world space
varying vec3 varyingNormalDirection;
// surface normal vector in world space
varying vec4 textureCoordinates;
#ifdef VERTEX
void main()
{
mat4 modelMatrix = _Object2World;
mat4 modelMatrixInverse = _World2Object; // unity_Scale.w
// is unnecessary because we normalize vectors
position = modelMatrix * gl_Vertex;
varyingNormalDirection = normalize(vec3(
vec4(gl_Normal, 0.0) * modelMatrixInverse));
gl_Position = gl_ModelViewProjectionMatrix * gl_Vertex;
textureCoordinates = gl_MultiTexCoord0;
}
#endif
#ifdef FRAGMENT
void main()
{
vec3 normalDirection = normalize(varyingNormalDirection);
vec3 viewDirection =
normalize(_WorldSpaceCameraPos - vec3(position));
vec3 lightDirection;
float attenuation;
vec4 textureColor =
texture2D(_MainTex, vec2(textureCoordinates));
if (0.0 == _WorldSpaceLightPos0.w) // directional light?
{
attenuation = 1.0; // no attenuation
lightDirection = normalize(vec3(_WorldSpaceLightPos0));
}
else // point or spot light
{
vec3 vertexToLightSource =
vec3(_WorldSpaceLightPos0 - position);
float distance = length(vertexToLightSource);
attenuation = 1.0 / distance; // linear attenuation
lightDirection = normalize(vertexToLightSource);
}
vec3 diffuseReflection = attenuation * vec3(_LightColor0)
* vec3(_Color) * vec3(textureColor)
* max(0.0, dot(normalDirection, lightDirection));
vec3 specularReflection;
if (dot(normalDirection, lightDirection) < 0.0)
// light source on the wrong side?
{
specularReflection = vec3(0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
// no specular reflection
}
else // light source on the right side
{
specularReflection = attenuation * vec3(_LightColor0)
* vec3(_SpecColor) * (1.0 - textureColor.a)
// for usual gloss maps: "... * textureColor.a"
* pow(max(0.0, dot(
reflect(-lightDirection, normalDirection),
viewDirection)), _Shininess);
}
gl_FragColor =
vec4(diffuseReflection + specularReflection, 1.0);
}
#endif
ENDGLSL
}
}
// The definition of a fallback shader should be commented out
// during development:
// Fallback "Specular"
}
A useful modification of this shader for the particular texture image above, would be to set the diffuse material color to a dark blue where the alpha component is 0.
Shader Code for Per-Vertex Lighting
As discussed in Template:GLSL Programming Unity SectionRef, specular highlights are usually not rendered very well with per-vertex lighting. Sometimes, however, there is no choice because of performance limitations. In order to include gloss mapping in the shader code of Template:GLSL Programming Unity SectionRef, the fragment shaders of both passes should be replaced with this code:
#ifdef FRAGMENT
void main()
{
vec4 textureColor =
texture2D(_MainTex, vec2(textureCoordinates));
gl_FragColor = vec4(diffuseColor * vec3(textureColor)
+ specularColor * (1.0 - textureColor.a), 1.0);
}
#endif
Note that a usual gloss map would require a multiplication with textureColor.a instead of (1.0 - textureColor.a).
Summary
Congratulations! You finished an important tutorial about gloss mapping. We have looked at:
- What gloss mapping is.
- How to implement it for per-pixel lighting.
- How to implement it for per-vertex lighting.
Further Reading
If you still want to learn more
- about per-pixel lighting (without texturing), you should read Template:GLSL Programming Unity SectionRef.
- about texturing, you should read Template:GLSL Programming Unity SectionRef.
- about per-vertex lighting with texturing, you should read Template:GLSL Programming Unity SectionRef.