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I was surprised also.
PBR shaders usually handle roughness by using lower mip levels of the reflection cubemap (that's why it's so important to enable the mipmap setting on reflection probes). I'm pretty much doing the same thing here, but I was still amazed by the result.

Yes exactly, it works well if the world has nice reflection probes, even better if the reflection probe uses box projection.

The two lines of code you can use to sample the reflection probe with a refraction effect.

IOR : Index of refraction (0~1)
MipMap : Blur level (The shader blurs the reflection probe texture by just sampling a lower level mipmap)

A fun little side project, I learned a few things while making it.

I released on my GitHub a new shader : Frosted Glass.
The shader uses the scene's environment reflection (reflection probe) to fake transparency : The shader is actually fully opaque and doesn't use any grab pass.

You can download it here :
github.com/MyroG/MyroP-...
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Most of my friends are also usually on Orange, which I totally understand, but when someone’s Orange, I never know if I’d be welcome to join or not, and sending join requests feels a bit awkward.
What do you all think? I can write a canny.

On VRChat, I sometimes stay on Orange since I’ve got friend groups that don’t mix well, like EN speaking friends joining a GER speaking instance etc.
I think it would be nice if we could set status per friend category (In the above case, "Green for Germans, Orange for others")

Two more pics

The default Unity baker also supports that feature, but it isn't well documented : In your shader, you need to add the shader keyword "_TransparencyLM" and set your texture in that field
docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Docum...
The result can be seen below

The last Bakery update added the component "Bakery Light Filter", which allows you to easily bake light shining through stained glass, you just need to add that component on your stained glass mesh. No need to use custom cookie textures on your light sources anymore!
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There are many amazing shaders out there, but I would also recommend trying out the shaders made by Orels (@orels1.bsky.social)
Here, I am using Orels puddles shader shaders.orels.sh/docs/orl-sta...
I'm also a big fan of how everything is beautifully documented.
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Little update: This is what I modeled so far

I think I have a new favorite water shader : Silent's clear water shader gitlab.com/s-ilent/clea...
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I tried to make toilets no one will ever want to use

It's easy to add if the shader was made with Amplify.
I don't think Orels shaders were made with Amplify, and I haven't looked at how to create modules for those shaders.
So, not currently, but definitely an interesting idea!

I put the entire music visualizer in an Amplify function, so if you want to add that visualizer to your custom shader, you can do it pretty easily github.com/MyroG/MyroP-...

A few months ago, I shared a music visualizer shader on my GitHub (see quote).
I recently added that visualizer to my avatar.
I wasn't so sure where to place it, but I decided to put it on my shoes. I'm pretty happy with the results.
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Really interesting idea!
I haven't thought about that solution, I'll definitely keep that in mind

@sim.red shared an alternative to the "floor(sampledColor + thickness)" solution that also adds some anti-aliasing.
Left image: floor(sampledColor + thickness)
Right image: Red_Sim's anti-aliased implementation

Yes, thanks for telling me about that Bicubic sample node ^^

Same as the 4th image, but this time with a 1024px texture

It helped me improving the performance rating of my avatar.
I don't know of any avatar shader that supports it, but it's relatively easy to implement with Amplify

I used bicubic sampling on my avatar to reduce texture resolution and lower texture memory usage.
1. 4k texture
2. 256px texture
3. 256px texture with bicubic sample
4. 256px texture with bicubic sample, sharpened using floor(sampledColor + lineThickness)
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Mykhailo Moroz on X: "I've implemented a Gaussian Splatting renderer in VRChat! It was tricky, but turned out to be feasible. I've also made a public gallery with 12 splats you can check out: https://t.co/qjJaGSRrCJ By the way the renderer is open source! https://t.co/3OS0RbeB7a https://t.co/lA1k1rRWVw" / X I've implemented a Gaussian Splatting renderer in VRChat! It was tricky, but turned out to be feasible. I've also made a public gallery with 12 splats you can check out: https://t.co/qjJaGSRrCJ By the way the renderer is open source! https://t.co/3OS0RbeB7a https://t.co/lA1k1rRWVw

(7/7) Lastly, here's Michael Moroz's thread explaining how the implementation works (unfortunately that thread didn't got posted on bsky)
x.com/Michael_Moro...

(6/7) Just search "gaussian splatting" in VRChat to find more.
I'm defintely interested playing around with it when I have some time, it looks fun.

- 川北東橋 ⁄ Kawakita-higashi Bridge - 3DGS by DEKA_KEIJI777V このワールドはテスト用です。【場所˸徳島市 川北東橋・撮影日˸2023年5月2日・Splat数˸300万・撮影枚数˸約780枚】当時撮影データをフォトグラメトリに使用する予定だったものを試しに3D Gaussian Splattingに使用してみました。ノイズが多いですが楽しんでいただけたら嬉しいです。

(5/7) The tool was released recently, and I've started noticing a surge in popularity. Here are a few other worlds you can check out:
vrchat.com/home/world/w... by DEKA_KEIJI777V
vrchat.com/home/world/w... by misha_m

(4/7) You can download that tool here github.com/MichaelMoroz...
From what I've seen so far, that technique seems to handle reflective surfaces (water, mirror etc.) pretty well

(3/7) These screenshots were taken in the VRChat world "Gaussian Splat Mega Gallery" by misha_m (@michael-moroz.bsky.social), which uses MichaelMoroz's Gaussian splatting tool. It's more impressive than any mesh-based photogrammetry world I've seen in VRChat so far.
vrchat.com/home/world/w...

(2/7) Gaussian splatting is a volume rendering technique that renders volume data using lots of "splats" instead of rendering a mesh. In this case, the splats are rendered as blurry dots. Tools exist to generate the data from a set of photos.

(1/7) I took a few selfies with JD Vance ^^
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