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A collection of PS1-style shader effects for Unity URP: step back into the past and bring an old-school look to your meshes, terrains, and skyboxes!

This pack adds new PSX shaders, scripts, and meshes to the Universal Render Pipeline, complete with a demo scene showing them all off.

✨ Key Features

  • Lit, Unlit, and Vertex Lit variants of the core shader
    • With full support for transparency, face culling, and alpha clipping
  • Terrain support with the Terrain lit shader
  • Cubemap Skybox support with many of the same features as the core shader
  • Procedural Skybox shader which generates clouds dynamically
  • Two demo scenes: 
    • A wooded area focusing on terrains and direction light support
    • A city block showcasing additional spot light support

⚡ Lighting & Rendering Features

  • Support for Forward, Forward+, and Deferred rendering paths
  • Directional light and additional light support in Lit & VertexLit
  • Ambient light controls - override Unity's ambient light
  • Vertex color support - tint the base color of your object

🎮 PSX-style Features

  • A resolution limiter to automatically use lower mip levels for your textures
  • Vertex snapping modelled after the low precision of the PS1's vertex processing
  • Affine texture mapping to mimic the lack of perspective correction on the PS1 hardware
  • Color depth limiter to reduce the color fidelity of your objects
  • Framerate limiter script

📺 CRT Post Process Effect

  • Barrel distortion to emulate the rounded face of a CRT screen
  • Chromatic aberration to separate the color channels towards the edges of the screen
  • Pixelation to reduce the screen resolution
  • A scanline effect which scrolls down the image
  • An RGB subpixel rendering effect which tints different pixels red, green, or blue
  • Interlaced rendering to alternate between rendering different rows of pixels between frames

✅ Compatible Versions

  • Compatible with the Universal Render Pipeline only.
  • Fully tested with Unity 2022.3, the latest LTS release.
    • Also tested with Unity 6 - however, this is not yet a stable release, so beware of bugs in new updates
  • Supports the ForwardForward+, and Deferred rendering paths.
  • Please note that this package was designed for desktop use. Support is not guaranteed on VR, mobile, or console platforms.
Updated 6 days ago
StatusReleased
CategoryAssets
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorDaniel Ilett
Made withUnity
Tagsaffine-texturing, crt, interlacing, pixelation, post-processing, ps1, Retro, rgb-subpixels, shader-effects, vertex-snapping

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In order to download this asset pack you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $15.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Retro Shaders Pro 76 MB
Version 1.2

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