An Unofficial Stride Material System's "Effects and Shaders" Companion Guide

[Basewq]

I've just released a repo with a guide to try help bridge the gap in knowledge from the official documentation Effects and Shaders for Materials and working with the Material system in Stride, and a water shader demo project:
https://github.com/Basewq/BasewqStrideMaterialShaderGuide

Or just click here to go straight to the guide page.

This is not meant for complete beginners, as that requires a guide on its own. This would be more targeted towards intermediate level programmer.

Here's a video of the water material in the demo project (not an artist so sorry that it isn't the world's greatest looking water!)

water_demo.mp4

Feel free to state what other gaps need filling (though keep in mind this more to do with the Material shader - things like compute shader is a different area), pass along your own tips and tricks here, or what you think should be added to the official documentation (don't say all of this).

[Eideren]

Did a really quick and dirty change to MaterialWaveSurfaceNormal.sdsl:

var worldPos = streams.PositionWS;

to

var worldPos = lerp(float3(streams.TexCoord.x, 0, streams.TexCoord.y)*100, streams.PositionWS, 0.75);

That way the gerstner expansion and contraction of vertices affects the microsurface of the water slightly;

Stride.Gamestudio.Hrhura07j7.mp4

The video starts with this change toggled on, then it is toggled off after a bit, then back on, etc.
It is fairly subtle, but it's a nice visual trick to make it seems as if the waves carry some amount of force behind them.

This is just a quick change though, I'm guessing moving this in the vertex shader/using world pos instead of the random TexCoord would be more appropriate

[Basewq]

Wow thanks, I didn't pick up on that. Updated the repo with this feature.