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Question by timcommandeur · May 16, 2013 at 06:46 PM · meshlightingshadowvoxel

Voxel engine lighting

Hey all,

I'm currently working on a voxel shader and I have chunks with meshes that can be renderen already. I want to use a custom shader. The shader has to render the vertices with the colors set for them. This works. But I also want to have some shadows cast by higher blocks. For example:

 []      <- This block has to cast a shadow on the top of
   []    <- this block

Does anyone know how I can achieve this effect?

This is the shader:

 Shader "VoxelShader" {
 Properties {
     _Color ("Main Color", COLOR) = (1,1,1,1)
 }
 SubShader {
     Pass {
         Fog { Mode Off }
         CGPROGRAM
         // Upgrade NOTE: excluded shader from DX11 and Xbox360; has structs without semantics (struct appdata members vertex,color)
         #pragma exclude_renderers d3d11 xbox360
         // Upgrade NOTE: excluded shader from OpenGL ES 2.0 because it does not contain a surface program or both vertex and fragment programs.
         #pragma exclude_renderers gles
         // Upgrade NOTE: excluded shader from Xbox360; has structs without semantics (struct appdata members vertex,color)
         #pragma exclude_renderers xbox360
         #pragma vertex vert
         
         // vertex input: position, color
         struct appdata {
             float4 vertex;
             float4 color;
         };
         
         struct v2f {
             float4 pos : POSITION;
             float4 color : COLOR;
         };
         v2f vert (appdata v) {
             v2f o;
             o.pos = mul( UNITY_MATRIX_MVP, v.vertex );
             o.color = v.color;
             return o;
         }
         ENDCG
     }
 }
 }
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Answer by Dave-Carlile · May 16, 2013 at 06:52 PM

Your lighting information will most likely need to be calculated outside of the shader, and passed to the shader using per vertex color data. Google will show you commonly used techniques for Minecraft style lighting calculations.

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