Version 3

This is a combintion of a tonne of smaller updates that I figured would be best released together. At this point, it's a soft rewrite. Anyways..

• Improved Shadowcaster pass when using various options (Flat Model, UV Effects, etc.)
• Keyword restructure.
• Final shading modes: PBR, Ramp, Cel, NPR, Packed, TriBand, Skin, Wrapped
• New Rim Lighting Mode: Normals
• Branch/Variants Restructure
• More bug fixes than I can count
• Restructued lighting
• More optimisations than I can count (I obviously just can't count, I guess)
• New Character Settings: Ambient Gradient, Manual Normals, SDF Shadows, Stocking, Eye Parallax, Translucent Hair, Expression Map, Face Map, Gradient, Toon Highlights, Angel Rings (Hair), Quick Materials (Latex/Fabric/Silk/Rubber)
• A lot of lighting controls were added
• Sticker improvements
• Specular restructure
• Liquid Layer Effect (Sweat/Blood/Oil/Icing/Slime/Wax/Mud)
• UI Improvements
• License Update
• New Outline Settings
• Much more..

Version 2.0.3

Version 2.0.3

• All anime shading modes now have proper attenuation, sorry about that (╥﹏╥)

Version 2.0.2

Version 2.0.2

• Fixed old function call in HiFi Vertex Lighting

Version 2.0.1

Version 2.0.1

• Improve light checks
• Fix lightmaps not being assigned properly

Version 2.0.0

• Normal map toggle for better performance, allow deriving normal from albedo as well
• New UI tab "Shading" (and old "Shading" was renamed to "Stylise")
• Parallax was moved to "Effects"
• Shadow Textures was moved to "Stylise"
• Move "Outline Stencil" options to the "Outline" tab
• Global Illumination toggle in Rendering tab
• Optimise shadow caster pass to skip unnecessary compilation
• Support multi-instancing better now (hopefully?)
• Greatly reduce shader variants, keywords, and compilation time
• Change normal calculations to use gram-schmidt orthogonalization
• Avoid potential resampling in specular modes by pre-calculating terms, and fixed other Specular bugs
• Renamed Procedural Anime to Halftone Anime mode
• Added HiFi Anime mode, Skin Anime mode, and Wrapped Anime mode
• Allow multiple ramp maps to be used and cycled through (up to 10)
• Grabpass features (Refraction, SSR) now optionally allow the use of a custom texture in place of the grabpass
• Reduced max raymarch steps in SSR to 35 (from 50) for more reasonable limits
• Stickers are merged into one, and support new settings! (screen space mapping, overlay mode, more pattern control)
• Add a "Silhouette/Backdrop" mode for Outline
• Improved Shadowcaster pass to sample less and do less work
• Added internal debugging functions
• Restructure folder hierarchy to prevent editor-only assets being included in builds (very small difference, but eh, it's something!)
• Introduce "World" and "World Outline" variants of the shader
• New "Stochastic Sampling" effect in the World variants of the shader, with heitz/contrast sampling and naïve/competitive blending
• New "Splatter Mapping" effect in the World variants of the shader, with triplanar and standard UV mapping modes
• Reduce sampler count by keeping secondary textures using shared samplers (ex. a distortion map will use the same sampler as the albedo of that effect). Will prevent edge cases of exceeding sampler limits on certain platforms.
• New "Texture Bombing" effect in the World variants of the shader, allowing for large-scale repeating decal textures with variation and spritesheet support
• Specular energy can now, optionally, be functional with various modes and limits

Version 1.8.5

• Add shift support to B channel of hair specular map
• Add jitter support to hair specular

Version 1.8.0

• More editor improvements (primarily the badge system)
• Much better preset handling, as well as an "optimise preset" option
• Better default values (Anime Diffuse starts on, default to white ramp map)
• "Glitch" mode for Vertex Distortion
• Bug fixes and optimisations (shadow calculations, outline drawing, ui errors, etc.)
• Additional Outline options
• Rewrote AudioLink integration for more control
• Expanded settings
• Updated license to Version 1.5
• Updated translations
• Code cleanup
• Legacy mode (for older hardware, support SM 3.0 instead of 5.0)
• Stable and battle-tested release!

Version 1.5

• Editor improvements (cleaner, search bar, etc.)
• New parallax mapping modes (interior and layered)
• Many bug fixes
• SDF Shadow Shading feature for Anime Shading
• Compact shader generation fixes
• Outline rewrite and additional settings

Version 1.0

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