Mega-Max-Layered Material-XXExtreme

[Tanakov]

Hello,
recently I was working on a snow shader that would cover all surface using the Z-axis of the object.
I noticed that changing all my materials in to "Layered material" with exactly the same Coat and different base will be very time-consuming.

I thought about some kind of "Global Layered material" that could work with some kind of list like "distance" does or even
"Material Override Add Coat"

Does that sound good?

[romullus]

Sounds interesting. Maybe that could be somehow integrated into global material override. I remember back in the days, Brazil has pretty powerfull override system. It would be interesting to have something similar in Corona.

[Juraj]

Unreal has this, though I am not sure how that setup looks. Worth investigating.

[pokoy]

Sounds interesting. Maybe that could be somehow integrated into global material override. I remember back in the days, Brazil has pretty powerfull override system. It would be interesting to have something similar in Corona.

Yes, Brazil's override was pretty powerful, and you could use BlurBeta's 'Do Nothing' map to keep a material property from being changed. I kind of always wished Corona would have this. We have some of this functionality in the preserve options in the material overrides but it's not as powerful and works only for some of the material properties.

In an ideal world, it would be a new material type where you could check any of its parameters  to override globally, unchecked would read that property from scene materials and leave them unchanged.

From past conversations it is not possible with the current material implementation. When I asked for a 'preserve bump' option the answer was that it would need a rewrite of how materials work in Corona.

[PROH]

+ 1000 for some sort of global "overlay"-override. Makes sense with snow, as well as adding toon-shaders/lines to a fully build and shaded scene.

[Tanakov]

My idea is to add something similar to the

Environment option where you can add multiple HDRI's, so adding multiple Override's with lists would be amazing.

Possible use I can come up with?
- Snow
- Ice
- Dust
- Rust
- Dirt
- Comic/Tune
- Light Halo's
- Water/Wet layer

_{Devs plis dont ignore me for next 6 years with this one}

[maru]

Makes sense. Logged in our internal tracker. Please note that V5 is going to be a mostly maintenance release, so not many new features are expected.
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_{Devs plis dont ignore me for next 6 years with this one}

_{Ok, you will be ignored for 8 years}