I need some simple material that just renders without lighting impacts or other PBR-stuff like this to use it in my 2D game. StandardMaterial looks like overhead for this task. I wanna create tycoons and tower defense like games with much sprites so I need some more lightweight mat that StandardMat…

StandardMaterial unlit will be the safest as it supports all of the framework functionalities. You could also think of creating your own in either NME or even as a shader material or maybe for simpleMaterial in a simpleTransparentMaterial :slight_smile:

Looks like SimpleMaterial doesn’t support opacity? I need an opacity support… So I think I need not so simple material :smiley:

Do you need an opacityTexture or a full-mesh alpha/transparency value? It looks like useAlphaFromDiffuseTexture is not available. But is its inherent value “true”? If you need something like opacityTecture, what happens if you specify a diffuseTexture that includes alpha values? If you don’t need …

Also, see StandardMaterial with disableLighting = true

Well, alpha is not what I’m talking about. Alpha it is a “object transparency” when I need to use PNG with alpha channel. For instance: place a character png on a plane. If I use SimpleTexture - all tranparent areas show as a black color.

Yeah, that works (and emissiveColor set to white), but I think using StandardMaterial as a simple unlit shader is a bit overhead :smiley:

This seems to directly address your question. I would take this as gospel, given the poster, at least as of the time of posting. [image] Fastest Unlit Material, shared geometry For unlit: Yes, StdMaterial with no lighting is the fastest

Well, it looks like I better stop looking for something faster than StandardMaterial and just stick to that for now. And when there’ll be a better times then maybe create some simple unlit shader by my own and compare performance with the StandardMaterial. It’s a 3-4 lines of code, but I don’t know …

Is there some simple material in BJS without PBR for 2D games?

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HiGreg January 3, 2025, 1:59pm 8

This seems to directly address your question. I would take this as gospel, given the poster, at least as of the time of posting.

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Is there some simple material in BJS without PBR for 2D games?

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