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Question by martygrof3708 · Jun 09, 2019 at 12:33 AM · animationshadertexturematerialsetfloat

What is wrong with my shader?

I have a shader which essentially is meant to make an animated gradient. I made a texture which is a square with an alpha gradient towards the centre. The shader reads this texture and only displays pixels which have an alpha value above _Cutout. _Cutout is edited by a script.

Shader "Unlit/RadialSprite" { Properties { _MainTex ("Texture", 2D) = "white" {} _Color ("Color", Color) = 1, 1, 1, 1 _Cutout ("Cutout", Range(0, 1)) = 0.5 } SubShader { // Treat this material as transparent Tags { "RenderType"="Transparent" "Queue"="Transparent" "IgnoreProjector"="True" } LOD 100

     // Set up alpha blending
     ZWrite Off
     Blend SrcAlpha OneMinusSrcAlpha

     Pass
     {
         CGPROGRAM
         #pragma vertex vert
         #pragma fragment frag

         #include "UnityCG.cginc"

         struct appdata
         {
             float4 vertex : POSITION;
             float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
         };

         struct v2f
         {
             float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
             float4 vertex : SV_POSITION;
         };

         sampler2D _MainTex;
         float4 _MainTex_ST;
         // Add shader variables for our material properties.
         fixed4 _Color;
         float _Cutout;

         v2f vert (appdata v)
         {
             v2f o;
             o.vertex = UnityObjectToClipPos(v.vertex);
             o.uv = TRANSFORM_TEX(v.uv, _MainTex);
             return o;
         }

         fixed4 frag (v2f i) : SV_Target
         {
             fixed4 col = tex2D(_MainTex, i.uv);

             // Hide any part of the image that's darker than 
             // the current alpha value of the particle color
             col.a = saturate((col.r -_Cutout) * 10.0f);

             // Replace the visible color of the image
             // with the material color
             col.rgb = _Color.rgb;

             return col;
         }
         ENDCG
     }
 }

}

My problem is that when I put the texture on the material, the entire quad goes white, my texure doesnt appear.

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Answer by Namey5 · Jun 16, 2019 at 11:11 AM

That's because just before you output a colour, you overwrite the texture with the primary material colour;

 //This;
 col.rgb = _Color.rgb;
 
 //Should be this;
 col.rgb = col.rgb * _Color.rgb;
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