Unity Dynamic Deformation Shader with Amplify.

This here’s a shader tutorial that has many uses, I show you how you can create the real-time illusion of a ball scurrying under a rug, with the aid of render textures (which is where you turn your cameras output into a readable texture!) but with a little bit of tinkering you could even make snow trail shaders with this, or making your character push grass out of the way.

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[NutyRiver]

THANK YOU!! I was looking in to how to create ripples in a water shader but i had NO IDEA where to even start on how to make a dynamic shader like this. Thank you soooo much!

[abclef]

Wow! This is a mind-blowing tutorial, we can do tons of similar things based on this trick

[placebo_yue]

thanks, i used this as inspiration to make a shader

[plazicx]

really really cool video! However, particles are not needed -you could attach fixed image of white gradient circle to the sphere and it would do the same thing. However, the particle idea is super useful in this concept for some other applications (water ripples - as someone already commented). Thanks a lot!

[mehrankhan]

das some fine-ass knowledge!! thank you for sharing this one.

[RenderAndReviews]

this is really great!!! Thanks u so much =D

[AETutsVids]

Very nice technique, you inspire me ;)

[baptistep]

Maybe you could only have feed the sphere world position to the rug and made the vertex offset by distance ? but works only with one ball

[spycrabcarl]

Is there a way to scale this without affecting the deformations? It seems no matter what I do to try and scale it I always end up with the deformation effect changing size with it

[ktest]

Is it also possible to modify the mesh collider of the rug?

[andaccoban]

Can we use it for 3d model? I have teied for default cube but I do not get any result. Thanks

[bdenix]

we could do the same thing just by sending the position of the sphere to the shader, then doing the distance function to smooth out. and then apply deformation using those. probably more performant. however the problem when deforming the mesh is how you correct the normals.

[siavashaliyari]

instead of the particle you could use a quad and a black texture

[munyunu]

Is it possible to make it deform to complex shapes (like a heart or star shape)?

[DigitalAdamTech]

Thanks for this! But is there a way to deform the surface of a mesh relative to another mesh? For example; I'd like to have the surface of the balloon indent when my VR finger touches it. Any thoughts would be appreciated!

[alaslipknot]

The render texture Technic is really awesome!
my concern is how can this be scaled up in a real project ? imagine you have multiple "blankets" that your character can go under, are we now forced to used multiple materials each with its own render texture and camera ? some tricks can be applied like for example not having 2 blankets too close to each other so when the player reach a certain radius the camera get parented by the possibly-next blanket but is that it ?

I wonder if its possible to use the player world-position to effect the blanket directly.

[ZiplawDev]

hey, this was really cool, do you think you could use something similar to this technique to create like snow you can stomp with a boot? bc atm it seems like the only shape you can use for the displacement is a sphere. In any case, thank you for the info :)

[tehuster]

Very nice, i made something similiar but this is a lot cleaner!

[josimarfpsbrasil]

Serve para adicionar na roupa do personagem ?

[brechtdebackere]

Exactly what I was looking for! Amazing. As a newbie, I'm just wondering what part of this is actually related to the 'amplify shader tool'? (I have no experience with shaders in unity so maybe it's a ridiculously obvious thing).