I have the following playground with a ground mesh using a material that receives shadows: https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#ZH0IX6#6 [image] I wanted to smooth the edges of the different colours and blend them into each other based on height. Perhaps there’s an easier way of doing this but …

Using a shadow depth wrapper won’t work because your fragment code doesn’t have light support. You would have to include all the required shader code to support lights in your shader. It would be a lot easier to create a material plugin instead. That way, your code will be embedded in a standard / …

Thanks @Evgeni_Popov ! I’ll check it out :slight_smile:

Material Plugin looks really powerful! I don’t know if there’s an easier / better way of using the info.diffuse and shadow but this looks better: https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#ZH0IX6#15 [image]

You could simply set the diffuse color of the material (called baseColor in the standard material): Babylon.js Playground Babylon.js playground is a live editor for Babylon.js WebGL 3D scenes If you want to support PBR materials, the injection point is name…

That’s great to know. Thank you. I can see both CUSTOM_FRAGMENT_UPDATE_ALBEDO and surfaceAlbedo in the code now: https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js/blob/29934a73c9077fbed3c0b69577801cf02fc60f8a/packages/dev/core/src/Shaders/ShadersInclude/pbrBlockAlbedoOpacity.fx#L64 (though I have no idea wh…

Possible to use BABYLON.ShadowGenerator with shader material?

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ajp September 13, 2023, 1:17pm 2

I’ve just seen this post: Get shadows working with custom shader that links to this announcement: Custom shadows with ShadowDepthWrapper.

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Possible to use BABYLON.ShadowGenerator with shader material?

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