Component:FurMaterial

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Fur Material component as seen in the Scene Inspector

The FurMaterial component is used to make multi layered geometry out of a mesh's original geometry that has a specified distance between layers. The number of layers is a constant 20. Combined with a map to create holes in the layers via alpha, this creates the illusion of depth and fur like properties. The geometry layers are instanced on the GPU.

Some players have reported lag when using Fur materials. This is due to either using too large of a texture, or due to an issue called Overdraw.

Overdraw is caused when the GPU generates pixels for a layer for where it appears on the screen in a stage in rendering called "Rasterization" when it is done, it renders the next layer, and has to draw that on top of the already drawn layer pixels. The drawing on top for the next 19 layers is called Overdraw.

This means that if a user looks very closely at a fur shader, or the shader covers their entire screen while all layers are in front of the camera, it will lag intensely. This is because the game is doing 20 drawing cycles on every pixel. Causing significant lag.

Fields

Fields

Name	Type	Description
persistent	Bool	Determines whether or not this item will be saved to the server.
UpdateOrder	Int	Controls the order in which this component is updated.
Enabled	Bool	Controls whether or not this component is enabled.
HighPriorityIntegration	Bool	If true, integrating this asset (e.g. processing procedural assets) gets higher priority than assets with this flag off. An example is user laser procedural meshes.
_shader	Shader	Internal.
Color	ColorX	Color/Tint of the fur
SpecularColor	ColorX	Specular Tint. Behaves like PBS Specular Tinting
Shininess	Float	Behaves like PBS Smoothness
Gloss	Float	Reflection Intensity.
RimColor	ColorX	Rim Lighting Color
RimPower	Float	Rim Lighting Power
FurLength	Float	Length of the fur. Always applied in the force direction.
FurHardness	Float	How Stiff the fur is. Biases fur to point in the mesh normal direction instead of the force direction.
FurThinness	Float	How many times to re-iterate the fur noise map. Behaves similarly to texture scaling.
FurShading	Float	How much fake shading should be applied to the fur.
FurColoring	Float	How much the color of the fur should take precedent over shading.
Base	ITexture2D	Albedo Texture. Alpha is Heightmap
NormalMap	ITexture2D	Normal Map
Noise	ITexture2D	Noise texture. This should always be on the alpha channel. This determines the pattern of the fur.
TextureScale	Float2	Texture Scale
TextureOffset	Float2	Texture Offset
AlphaCutoff	Float	Alpha cutoff for the additional layers created by the shader based on the noise map.
ForceGlobal	Float4	The amount of displacement to apply in the world coordinate system. The W value corresponds to a proportional affinity to point towards world origin.
ForceLocal	Float4	The amount of displacement to apply in the object's local coordinate system.
RenderQueue	Int	changes at which point a material renders on the render stack

Usage

Insert into a Component:MeshRenderer or Component:SkinnedMeshRenderer with a mesh to view what the material looks like.

Examples

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