1.1.4 Added: - Unlit shading mode, for projects using flat shading or targeting high performance Changed: - SSAO in URP 10 now also properly takes into account point/spot lights Fixed: - Bright sparkles in some situations where HDR is used and bright skybox lighting - SSAO appearing with dithered artifacts on grass in URP 11 1.1.3 Added: - Support for Depth Normals pre-pass and SSAO in URP 10+ Changed: - Minor UI improvements for clarity 1.1.2 Added: - Billboarding mode, this requires the "GrassBillboardQuad" mesh. A new prefab configured for billboarding has been added. - Line Renderers can now also be used for grass bending - Angle fading feature, dithers the faces not directed at the camera, making the mesh's planes less noticeable (works best without shadow casting) Fixed: - Skybox reflection and fog are temporarily disabled when rendering a color map, as their effects may end up being rendered into the texture Changed: - Improvements to grass bending, where any flickering is now entirely eliminated. - Color map is now rendered by rendering terrains with an unlit shader for increased color accuracy. Previous method still available through a checkbox, when using a third-party terrain shader. - Minimized CG allocation in grass bending render loop - Enabled LOD crossfading on all prefabs by default Removed: - Support for directional lightmaps, this is unlikely to ever be used with grass and halves the amount of shader variants 1.1.1 Added: - Support for Curved World 2020. This has to be activated through the Curved World shader activator. Options will then appear under the "Vertices" section. Grass bending not supported. - Support for GPU Instancer, this must be enabled at the bottom of the material UI Fixed: - Render features like third-party post processing effects no longer inadvertently apply to the color map render. - Shader errors for grass bending when using Single Pass Instanced rendering Changed: - Polished material UI through new template. Sections now smoothly expand/collapse. - Main color parameter is now HDR-enabled, allowing emissive grass 1.1.0 Added: - Colormap Renderer can now also render a scale map for grass, based on terrain layers. Allows grass scale to be determined by painted terrain layer strength. Material now has a Vector3 field to control the scale influence for the XYZ axis. The "Apply scalemap" toggle must be enabled on a material. - "Shadow banding correction" toggle. Offsets the shadows received by the grass a tiny bit. This avoids unwanted self-shadowing (aka shadow acne). - Support for LOD dithered crossfading (requires to be enabled on LOD group) Changed: - Height offset for mesh grass benders is now also applied to the wireframe gizmo - Active color map is now re-assigned whenever scene is saved, to avoid the link to the shader being broken - "Bending" section in material UI was renamed to "Vertices". - Bending render area edge masking now also works when not in play-mode. - Added additional edge loop to LOD0 of meshes. Added a LOD2 mesh with fewer vertices. Fixed: - Color Map Renderer * Render area calculations when terrains have a negative position * Handling cases where terrains are entirely flat - (Preemptive) Warning about obsolete method in URP 9.0.0+ (2020.2) - Shader error in URP 9.0.0, due to changes in URP lighting functions. - Environment reflections not correct when a normal map was used on curved meshes. Removed: - Specular highlight parameter, this was broken to begin with and translucency ends up offering the same visual result. Note: Prefabs in Vegetation Studio Pro have to be refreshed to avoid shadow flickering issues 1.0.9 Verified compatibility with URP 7.4.1 Added: - Support for Nature Renderer's "Procedural Instancing". * A option has been added at the bottom of the grass material to switch between Vegetation Studio and Nature Renderer integrations - "GrassSingle" model/prefab. A version of the GrassPatch prefab but with a single tuft. Changed: - Revised demo scene - When using the Simple Lighting mode, the color map is now also sampled per-pixel (texture would otherwise multiple over it) Fixed: - Bending area being flipped in URP 7.4.1 - Scenario where objects other than terrains could be rendered into the color map - Sun light adding additional light when at a steep angle, causing color map to not match up with terrain - Translucency now handles HDR light colors better 1.0.8 Changed: - Bending renderer now moves to follow target transform intermittently, rather than constantly. This eliminates any possible movement flickering in the grass. - Corrected settings for BendParticles prefab, it can now also be used as a child object. - Wind gust tint no longer applies to emission, so will respond correctly to lower direct light intensity (eg. dawn/dusk/night) Added: - Wheat texture and prefab - Thin grass texture and prefab - StylizedGrassRenderer script now has a static SetPosition(Vector3 position) function 1.0.7 Minimum required URP version: 7.2.0. Tested in 7.2.1/7.3.1/8.0.1 Added: - Alpha to coverage toggle to shader, reduces aliasing when using MSAA - Thick grass texture and prefab Changed: - Wind gust tint is now applied after translucency, resulting in more natural lighting behaviour. - Set all grass textures to "Clamp" to avoid thin lines at tip of grass at lower mipmaps - Expanded state of material sections are now saved until Unity is closed 1.0.6 Minimum required URP version: 7.2.0. Tested in 7.2.1/7.3.1/8.0.1 Added: - Perspective Correction parameter. Controls the amount by which the grass is gradually bent away from the camera as it looks down. Useful for better coverage in top-down perspectives Changed: - Improved visual quality of demo scenes through added color grading LUT and skybox Fixed: - Bug when using an override texture on a color map asset would cause it to be modified when re-rendering - Bug where grass would still sample a color map when switching to a scene without one active - Deleted hidden cameras from demo scenes, which caused a significant performance drop (development remnants) - Bright pixels at tip of grass in situations where translucency is prominent and MSAA is used. - Bending render area being flipped in URP 7.3.1 1.0.5 Minimum required URP version: 7.2.0. URP 7.3.1 compatibility verified. Note: Color maps have to be re-rendered in order to update their information to a new format! Changed: - Color map textures are now compressed, resulting in a substantial memory saving. Fixed: - Errors thrown on the ColorMapRenderer component when no ColorMap asset was assigned - Bending render area being flipped in URP 7.3.1 1.0.4 URP version requirement: 7.2.0+ Added: - Sorting layer to Grass Bender component. Higher layers are drawn over lower layers. Can be used to control which benders should overwrite other benders. - Particle trail prefab, as an alternative to using a grass bender with a trail renderer. - Color map height parameter, allows the color map to only take effect at the root of a grass mesh Changed: - Grass benders using a particle system in World simulation space are now supported - Grass benders outside of the render area are no longer processed Fixed: - URP installation dialog not having any effect due to changes in the Package Manager - Color map not rendering correctly if terrains were moved away from the world origin - (Preemptive fix) Grass bending render area being flipped in URP 8.0.1+ (Apparently was a mistake in 7.2.0)

Stylized Grass Shader