Poiyomi Shaders are powerful and versatile shaders for Unity’s Built-In Rendering Pipeline, specifically tailored for VRChat. Offering a variety of shading modes and advanced light handling, they’re free, open-source, and prioritizes ease of use and performance.
In the past, we’ve showcased some of these shaders’ impressive capabilities through stunning animated dragon tails created for a VRChat avatar by SirMango. You can see more of it in action in this reel by Teeh, who utilized effects from both the free and paid versions of Poiyomi Shaders, offering extra features.
Here’s what you’ll find in the standard free version of Poiyomi Shaders:
- Multiple shading models: Realistic, Toon, Flat, and more, with deep customization and robust handling of adverse lighting conditions;
- Multiple rendering modes: Opaque, Cutout, Transparent, and more;
- Physically-based Reflections and Specular;
- Stylized rendering functionality: Matcaps, Outlines, Rim Lighting;
- Special effects: Glitter, Sparkle, Emission, Iridescence, etc.
- Powerful global masking system;
- Extensive control over rendering options: Culling, ZWrite, ZTest, Stencils, etc.
Also, check out these videos by Teeh, who will help you get accustomed to some of the main features:
Get Poiyomi Shaders on GitHub and follow its official page on X/Twitter for the latest updates and creations from the VRChat community. To get access to Poiyomi Pro, support the developers on Patreon.
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