I'm trying to write a simple frag/vert shader that, depending on whether it is in the range of a light, will paint the appropriate colour from either the 'lit' texture or from the 'unlit' texture.
Therefore, I need to compare the distance between the light to the range of the light. I've been googling all kinds of things, but I can't seem to find a way of accessing the range value of the light. Is there a way to do so? If not, is there some kind of derived data I could use as an alternative?
I was able to find this method here, which seems to be the most promising so far, however after playing around for a bit, I still can't seem to get what I need. There's some talk about _LightMatrix0 not being populated. Can anyone confirm?
I've also had it suggested to use SetFloat() and pass in the range like that...however, that provides no easy way of telling one light apart from another short of using the light's position as a key. As several key lights in the game will be moving this is just ugly and inefficient.
Update
I found the variable unity_LightAtten in the Unity Shader Variables documentation. However, this is only used for Vertex Lit shading, which isn't exactly ideal, especially considering the lack of console support.
Could there be a way to pipe this variable to Forward Rendering?
Update 2
For clarification, shading should otherwise be 'flat' (ie no need for diffuse etc):
Also, what I've currently got (albeit, not currently working as desired and currently using a workaround):
Shader "Lantern/Flat Pullup" {
Properties {
_LitTex ("Lit (RGB)", 2D) = "white" {}
_UnlitTex ("Unlit (RGB)", 2D) = "white" {}
//_Falloff ("Falloff", 2D) = "white" {}
_Pullup ("Pull up Point", Range(0,1)) = 0.7
}
SubShader {
Pass{
Tags { "LightMode"="ForwardBase" }
LOD 200
CGPROGRAM
#pragma vertex vert
#pragma fragment frag
#include "UnityCG.cginc"
uniform sampler2D _UnlitTex;
uniform float4 _UnlitTex_ST;
uniform sampler2D _LitTex;
uniform float4 _LitTex_ST;
uniform float _Pullup;
uniform float4 _LightColor0;
struct VI {
float4 vertex : POSITION;
float4 tex : TEXCOORD0;
};
struct V2F {
float4 pos : SV_POSITION;
float4 tex : TEXCOORD0;
float4 posWorld : TEXCOORD1;
};
V2F vert(VI v){
V2F o;
o.pos = mul(UNITY_MATRIX_MVP, v.vertex);
o.tex = v.tex;
o.posWorld = mul(_Object2World, v.vertex);
return o;
}
float4 frag(V2F i) : COLOR {
float3 flatReflection = _LightColor0.xyz *
(1 / length(_WorldSpaceLightPos0.xyz - i.posWorld.xyz));
float4 color;
//Improve for light color etc
if(length(flatReflection) > _Pullup){
color = tex2D(_LitTex, i.tex.xy * _LitTex_ST.xy + _LitTex_ST.zw);
}else{
color = tex2D(_UnlitTex, i.tex.xy * _UnlitTex_ST.xy + _UnlitTex_ST.zw);
}
return color;
}
ENDCG
}
}
FallBack "Diffuse"
}
