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Tasty Grass Shader

Tasty Grass Shader ist das ultimative prozedurale Framework für Gras und Vegetation. Das Tool nutzt moderne Grafiktechniken wie Compute Shader und Indirect Draw, verwendet keine Gras-Prefabs und ist sehr effizient beim Rendern von Hunderttausenden von Halmen!

Try the free DEMO!

DOCUMENTATION & GUIDES

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

SUPPORT & CONTACT

If you encounter any issues or have questions, we are happy to help via:

Discord | GitHub | Email

FEATURES

🌱 Powerful procedural generation

  • Scriptable Object-based settings system
  • Use any grayscale texture to control the distribution of parameters, such as: height, angle, bending, thickness, and color of grass blades
  • Up to four customizable layers of variation
  • Several ready-to-use noise textures included.

⚡ Fast and beautiful

  • Separated baking and rendering pass at load time for maximum runtime performance.
  • Renders hundreds of thousands of blades often under one millisecond on a modern mid-range GPU.
  • Control density over distance via template settings and graphics quality settings.
  • Support for Multi-Sampling Anti-Aliasing (MSAA) and Alpha-To-Coverage in URP Forward.
  • See our Benchmarks here

🌬️ Wind and collision system

🌿 Flexible

🛫 Easy to get started

  • 14 presets for grass, flowers and debris included
  • Several grass textures included
  • 4 wind presets included

⛰️ Support for Unity Terrain

🎲 Support for any Unity Mesh

🕶️ Supports 3D (Forward and Deferred) and VR (Single-Pass Instanced and Multipass)

🧑‍💻 Hack-friendly

REQUIREMENTS

  • Support for Shader-Compile Target 4.5, respectively:
  • DirectX 11 feature level 11+
  • OpenGL 4.3+
  • OpenGL ES 3.1+
  • Vulkan
  • Metal
  • (Incompatible with WebGL)
  • Unity 2021.3+
  • Universal Rendering Pipeline 12.1+ or High Definition Render Pipeline 12.1+
  • Burst 1.6+ Package (included with Unity)

KNOWN ISSUES

  • There is no compatibility with lightmaps yet.
  • Compatibility with Unity 6 still being evaluated. Tested with 6000.0.22f1, known issues:
    • (UI) Grass Painting Tool for the Unity Terrain has slightly overlapping text
  • HDRP Support is currently in Beta. Known issues:
    • Motion Vectors don’t account for movement by wind.
    • VR compatibility with HDRP has not been tested yet.

FURTHER NOTES

The skybox used for the screenshots is not included in the package and is sourced from AllSky – 220+ Sky / Skybox Set.