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Poiyomi Toon 10.0.20 Changelog

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BluWizard
BluWizard
Lead Docs Author, Community Helper, Shader Contributor

This is a major release!​

Poiyomi Shaders have been graduated to 10.0 and is now ready for general usage. Be advised, this is the largest changelog I've ever written! So if you don't feel like reading everything, then please refer to our Blog post for a quick summary of the changes listed here.

The Toon version is now being rolled out and will be available in the VCC Repository, GitHub, and on BOOTH in the following hours after this post.

Legacy Shaders Removed

As of this release, versions 7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and 9.2 have been officially deprecated and no longer exist in this release! This was done to cut down on file size. If you are still using any of these versions mentioned above, PLEASE UPGRADE NOW!!!

Our improved translation utilities have been updated to make this transition as seamless as possible. Any materials detected to use an older version will prompt you to translate them to 9.3. This allows you to choose when to translate your materials to 10.0 at your own convenience.

Added​

Rendering & Lighting​

  • Added Bent Normals: Bent Normal Mapping with specular occlusion and indirect diffuse.
  • Added Skin: Skin coloring LUT module ranging from Light to Dark skin tones.
  • Added VRC Light Volumes 3.0 Support
    • Full support for VRC Light Volumes 3.0.
    • Added Light Volumes Specular support with dedicated Intensity, Shadow, and Normal Bias sampling configuration in the Light Data module.
  • Added Contact Shadows (Poiyomi Pro only): Screen-space raymarched shadowing.
  • Added Light Falloff/Attenuation curve, allowing to compensate brightness at distance.
  • AO is now applied to the main light and Occlusion is applied to the indirect color.
  • Directional Shadow Blur.

Geometry & Vertex​

  • Added Squish (Poiyomi Pro only): Vertex deformation with falloff, color gradient mixing, masking, and supports SPS Sockets.
  • Added Scaling to Object/Avatar Scaling to View Clip Prevention.
  • Added mapping to Vertex Glitching.
  • VertexLookAt now respects masks.

Raymarching​

  • Added Lava Lamp (Poiyomi Pro only)
    • Full raymarching feature allowing simulation of Lava Lamps, based on normalizedcrow's LavaLamp shader.
    • Integrated SDF volume baking, bind-pose baking and prefabs.
    • Multiple blob shapes possible with Scaling, Hollowing, Alpha and Strength. Configurable step-count and refraction.
    • Audio Link and Global Themes support.
    • Supports CPU mesh baking fallback (Linux only).

Surface Texturing​

  • Normal Map 2: Added second normal map with it's own Scale and Mapping set.
  • Global UV Configuration: Shared UV configuration across modules with translation support, with Screen-space UV option.
  • Extended Stochastic Sampling to LilFur.

Color​

  • Added Chromatize and Tint to Color Adjust.
  • Added Gradient Mask to Color Adjust.
  • Added Color Adjust baking, mirroring LilToon's Color baking.
    • Bakes Hue Shift, Saturation, Brightness, Gamma, Chromatize, Tint, and Gradation into the main texture, then resets the values to use the baked map.
  • Added OKLab support to Global Themes, with backwards-compatibility support by setting it to use legacy values.
  • Offset and Constant Hue Shift options added.
  • Added per-Decal Color Adjust settings alongside Hue Shift, including Brightness, Saturation, Gamma, and Chromatize.

Emission​

  • Added Square Wave blinking pattern. Sets step(frac(phase), duty) on the same period as the sine wave, allowing existing Velocity values to keep their blinking frequency.
  • Added Linear options for Center Out.
  • Exposed Alpha channel for Emissions, meaning Alpha can now also control the intensity.
  • Added note to Emission 0 regarding fallback compatibility.
    • For context, we noticed that using only Emission Masks set to White will cause fallback materials to be extremely bright! To mitigate this issue, we now ask users to use Emission slots 1, 2, or 3 for this reason.
    • Please set the HDR Color to Black if you are not using Emission 0!
    • If you do plan to use Emission 0 as your primary, we recommend using an Emission Map only on Emission 0.

Outlines​

  • Added Highlight, matching LilToon's outline highlighting feature. Supports Audio Link and Color Change.
  • Updated Outline Hue Shift to coincide with our modern Color Adjust framework. Backwards-compatible by setting it to use legacy values.
  • RGBA Color Masking, Decals, and Matcaps can now show on the Outlines pass.
  • Added Light Probe sampling for Outline lighting.

Dissolve​

  • Dissolve has been rewritten with a full UI overhaul. More advanced configuration options and a wide arrangement of new effects are now possible.
  • Alpha Only toggle, which will ignore the Dissolve Color's Alpha value. Enable this if specifically dissolving the Alpha. Dissolving to Alpha is the most common usage of this feature.
  • Edge can now support a gradient of two colors.
  • Wave Mode can make the effect dissolve in a wavy pattern.
  • Continuous Dissolve updated with support for different Wave patterns and phases.
  • Added Vertex Height to make the Dissolve affect Vertices while it travels.
  • Added support for outputting the Dissolve effect to a Global Mask.
  • AL Spectrum
    • Added a Band Range, ColorChord modifier, Mirroring Spectrum, Bilateral Mode, and improved Positioning Controls.
  • Added Audio Link for Internal Parallax and Triplanar Projection.
  • Various sections now have an improved Color Override modifier.

Effects​

  • Proximity Color now have Emission override, influence check on the Alpha, sharp borders, edge color, and a falloff curve modifier.
  • Constellation now supports random colors, improved star movement speed, and better Audio Link controls.
  • Glitter fully overhauled with randomized rotation direction, sprite sheet support, and linear controls.
  • Grab Pass now allows masking, color ramp effects, pixelation effect, bounding circle for blur, precomputed Gaussian kernel, and output clamping.
  • Internal Parallax now supports Global Masks, distance falloff, pan offset, and now behaves more like Decals.
  • Video Effects can now affect Decals and now have Global Masking support.
  • Depth Rim Lighting now supports Light Direction and method selection, Mix Attenuation, and Mix Ramped Light Map.
  • Subsurface Scattering now supports mixing LIght Colors, Shadow Attenuation adjustment, and Global Masking.
  • Stylized Specular now supports Tiling, Offset, Panning and UV, and reworked Lil Reflections.
  • Matcaps can now act as a fallback cubemap by using the Reflection Fallback toggle.
  • Backlight UI now closely reflects LilToon's latest version and has Global Masking support.
  • Improved Global Masking to Parallax Heightmapping, Light Data, Decals, Path Color, and Reflections & Specular.
  • Stats Overlay improved with Clock support, utilizing VRChat's Shader Globals. Supports UTC + Offset, Local Time, Unix time, and added better font alignment.

LilFur​

  • Nearly all Poiyomi features are now supported in LilFur, including Emission, Proximity Color, UV Tile Discard, Vertex Options, Audio Link, Dissolve, Stochastic Sampling, and more.
  • LilFur UVs are no longer linked to the main UVs and can be assigned per-texture UV.
  • Added Wind Effect, fur tip taper, width, RGBA Masking, and Inverted root width configuration options.

Time​

  • Networking Time Support, linking directly into VRChat's Shader Globals for Time syncing.

Platforms & Compatibility​

  • Added official support for Unity 6, ready for whenever VRChat is ready to unleash their SDK for Unity 6.
  • Added initial support for Warudo, MarrowSDK (Bonelab), and support skip-optimization for D3D.
  • PoiDynamicBranchVariantStripper added for Unity 2022.3, stripping redundant variants caused by the dynamic_branch Unity bug.

Shaders​

  • Added Shaders for Universal Render Pipeline (URP)
    • Supports Unity 6 only.
    • Initial Support for BasisVR and Warudo URP.
  • Added Poiyomi Pro Triplanar Projection (Poiyomi Pro only)
    • World-space triplanar with edge fading, distance fading, depth clipping, self-mapping, and exposed depth sampling accuracy.
    • Supports 2nd Bump Mapping and Audio Link.
  • Added Poiyomi Pro Self Grab (Poiyomi Pro only)
    • New self-grab pass shader, using an outline-like effect to create Grab Pass effects onto one's self.

Tooling & Editor​

  • Modular Shader System now exposed for end-user access.
  • User Module Install & Creation Workflow
    • Use Poi -> Installed Modules to find user modules anywhere in the project and fold enabled ones into the shaders on rebuild.
    • Poi -> Create New Module generates a working module without hand-editing template fileIDs.
  • Added Stencil Calculator UI to the shader templates.
  • DepthGet Prefab Spawner added on relevant modules that require the depth buffer, utilizing a prefab-spawner MaterialPropertyDrawer.
  • Color Adjust Baker scripting pipeline added for Color Adjust.
  • Hardened the Import/Export Checker to ensure bad installs never happen.

Upgrade & Translation Pipeline​

  • Added new scripting pipeline to handle Materials still using legacy shaders, allowing instant upgrade & translation to the latest version.
  • Introducing the Material Upgrade Utility
    • Accessible via Poi -> Material Upgrade Utility, this allows you to seamlessly upgrade materials on older versions and translate them to the latest version, all at once!
    • Uses the same to similar UI style as ThryEditor's refreshed Material Lock Manager such as Grouping, Filtering, and Searching.
  • Standalone auto-upgrading scripting added to allow instant translation of materials when changing the shader. Available for both Poiyomi and LilToon.
    • This is enabled by default. Can be toggled under Poi -> Auto-Translate Materials On Shader Change in the menu bar.
  • Added more translation parameters to support translating from LilToon 2.3 to Poiyomi 10.0.
  • Cross-edition translation Toon <-> Pro now work correctly.

Presets, Assets, & Localization​

  • Added improved Language support to the Shader UI including Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), German, Japanese, Korean, and Russian.
    • Localization now lives under _PoiyomiShaders/Localization folder in the project.
  • Updated Documentation URLs across the entire UI for new modules added and more.

Changes​

Lighting Overhaul​

This area is the largest amount of changes compared to added features. For advanced users who modify their lighting and shading for their Avatars, please read this section carefully.

  • Attenuation was split into Shadow Attenuation and Distance Attenuation. Both are now handled separately.
  • Light Cookies were moved out of attenuation and are now multiplied into Direct Color instead.
  • Unified the Base Pass and Add Pass: directColor = color × distance attenuation and light maps = cookie × shadow attenuation, so both passes behave identically. This means Shadow Attenuation now does it's shading inside the Shadows function.
  • Ambient and Global Illumination contribution in Additive Lighting is now blocked.
  • Light recomputation in the Base Pass and Add Pass are now blocked, removing redundant attenuation calls.
  • Switched to use isAdditive flag, as the Add Pass can contain Direction Lights too.
  • Linear Curve is prioritized as the default Light Attenuation.
  • New Min Brightness behavior with a noise floor, and a new minimum light cap.
  • Realistic Shading now uses Unity dielectrics for the default BRDF.
  • Added Shadow Strength to Realistic Shading.
  • Renamed Shadow Mask to Toon Shadow Mask to distinguish it from Baked Shadows and the Shadow Masking feature.
  • "Shading > Shading" has been renamed to "Shading > Shadows" to avoid confusion.
  • Max Light count has been lowered, and fixed the light loop break.
  • Shading Debugging has been refactored with exit codes.
  • Multilayer Math now uses main shadow as the main attenuation, and layers use their own attenuation slider. Shadows are made to be more subtle.
  • Cloth now uses precalculated indirect color.
  • Modules that don't use the lighting loop are moved into a PoiLightingNoLoopModules block. This means turning off Shadows no longer disables them.

Behavior Changes​

  • Emission Theme Color now replaces the Emission Color instead of multiplying it. Emission Color also tints into the Theme Color.
  • Matcaps now default to Replace blend mode.
  • Matcap Border now defaults to 0.5.
    • If using Double Sided mode, set the Border to 0.43 for the intended appearance.
  • Networked Time is now the default method for time synchronization, utilizing VRChat's Shader Globals.
  • Multilayer Math default settings are now updated to match LilToon 2.3.
  • Additive Lighting #T# added so Proximity Color works with specular.
  • Passthrough defaults changed to 0, Add Pass now ignores attenuation.
  • Vertex Lights are now filtered through the attenuation curve, and Vertex Lights are ignored on the Add Pass.
  • All toggles standardized to < 0.5 / >= 0.5 comparisons.
  • Decals are now rendered before Matcaps.
  • Grab Pass functions are now moved to render in front of Decals and Matcaps.
  • Hue Shift moved after saturation in Global Themes.
  • Decal Hue Shift moved inside Color Adjust as a sub-section in order to make room for the newly-added functions.
  • Global Mask modifiers in Reflections & Specular now split into their own section for UI consistency.
  • Default Fur Noise no longer generates mipmaps (otherwise, fur was losing detail at a distance). Smoother fur LOD.
  • Adjusted defaults for UV Distortion, Squish, and Particle Direction ramp.
  • LilFur default noise textures corrected to use Linear instead of sRGB, matching LilToon's upstream repository.
  • Updated Latex Matcaps (removes JPEG artifacts).
  • All included textures using Mipmapping now set to use Kaiser filtering (better support for VRChat's DPID filtering algorithm).
  • "lilToon" or "lil toon" is now referred as to "LilToon" for general professional appearance in the UI.
  • Brightness rides on the exposure rather than the color in Global Themes now.

Performance & Compilation​

  • Fog: multi_compile replaced with dynamic_branch, cutting the fog variants in half. applyUnityFog rewritten to use dynamic-branch keywords instead of runtime unity_FogParams heuristics; fogData interpolator simplified from float2 to float.
  • shader_feature -> shader_feature_local, multi_compile -> multi_compile_fragment and several multi_compile moved into the dynamic_branch.
  • Modules stripped from passes they don't contribute to, such as Early Z, Outlines, motion vectors, Meta passes, and the Add Pass (which now only keeps modules affecting lighting, masking or alpha).
  • Some Floats were converted to Halfs.
  • _ST moved inside the CBuffer, textures moved outside of it.
  • Local keyword and keyword-injection cleaned up, and removed the unused Fur Base Pass.
  • ifex stripping guards added and fixed across modules.
  • Broad Optimization Passes
    • Constellation: Sine removed from noise generation, branchless HSV to RGB, time wrapped to 2048π, self-skipped in the loop, line precomputed outside the loop.
    • SSAO: Angle rotations precalculated and then added per loop, radius scaled with object size, max radius increased.
    • Decals: sincos, shared variables.
    • Glitter: Improved it's branching - branch and texture sample moved out of nested loops, and moved the struct inside an ifdef.
    • Reflections & Specular: Metallics refactored, mask sampling delayed, fallbacks removed when unused.
    • Stochastic and Stylized Specular: sincos and refactored code.
    • Voronoi: Early discard, forced branch on expensive noise generation.
    • Glitter and Constellation positions cached to prevent memory leakage.
    • fwidth moved out of nested loops; smoothstep replaced with inverseLerp, cubic curve sampling replaced with a faster path.
    • Light Cookie branching replaced with compile-time evaluation.
    • Reduced Samplers where possible: poiSampleMask unlinked from texture declaration, RGBA Masking now uses the Main Texture sampler.
  • Branches flattened and switch statements flattened to prevent URP crashes in the URP shaders.
  • Shader Generation batched to avoid redundant AssetDatabase refreshes.
  • Shader Generation Workers improved with batching limits (on by default, prevents a runaway loop from exhausting RAM). ReleaseGeneratedText extended, a ReleaseAll() helper, _genContexts dropped at finalize, and deferred Resources.UnloadUnusedAssets() + GC.Collect() so memory can return to the Operating System level.

Architecture & Internals​

  • Object Scale exposed in the fragment shader, stored in normal.w. Outlines, SSAO, Vertex Height offsets, View Clip Prevention, Fur, and the pixelate effect now scale with Object/Avatar size.
  • eyeViewDir added; viewDir is now specifically the center eye. ALl camera positions reads are routed through getCameraPosition().
  • Internal light calculations are made stereo-aware, with center eye used for shadows.
  • Injection points reordered and renamed for Triplanar Projection (MAIN_TEXTURE_SAMPLE and FRAGMENT_NORMAL_CALCULATION moved after camera init; BASE_COLOR_MOD to MAIN_COLOR_MOD).
  • Main Color and Skin modularized, GI code moved into a GI module, Mochie Metallics and Specular separated.
  • Video Effects functions moved into PoiHelperFunctions for reusability.
  • Chromatize moved into helper functions.
  • Light variables moved into fragment data.
  • poiMods.audioLinkAvailable cached instead of calling AudioLinkIsAvailable().
  • Raymarching templates combined into a collection: Lava Lamp baking renamed to Raymarching with Poi.RaymarchingBaking / .Editor assemblies.
  • ThryEditor moved into Poiyomi's fork, submodule tracked more frequently.
  • Module Creator Inspector sections now read from the property skeleton instead of a hardcoded list.
  • Shader .shader GUIDs realigned.

UI​

  • Broad UI modernization across all sections including Rim Lighting, Matcaps, Pathing, Black Light Masking, Clear Coat, Reflections & Specular, Backlight, Outlines, ShatterWave, LilFur, Rendering, Color Overrides, and all dormant sections.
  • Thry Editor SubSection drawers adopted where appropriate, [ThrySeparater] added to replace [Space], UV Tile Dissolve rows converted to SubSection drawers.
  • Consistent UI across all shaders.
  • Helpboxes rewritten and updated and UIBoilerPlate updated to include a common error cause.
  • Back Face section now shows an error message if Cull is NOT set to Off because well, it doesn't even work if backfaces are culled.
  • GI and LTCGI have received new relevant warning messages.
  • Enforced [DoNotAnimate] tagging pass across some decorative headers and props that cannot be animated at runtime.
  • Shader Generator no longer opens a window unprompted.
  • Every Poiyomi context menu are now given the same entries, fixing validators registered against a path that did not exist.
  • Poiyomi submenus are moved to the bottom of the project menu, sitting at 1200.

Fixes​

Vulkan​

  • Switched to the DXC compiler for Vulkan, SV_IsFrontFace changed to a bool.
  • Switch-statement syntax fixed for Vulkan, twice.
  • Stereo fixed for geometry and tessellation shaders under Vulkan.
  • Global variables moved into the poiLight struct.
  • UV sampling fixed - everything switched to vertexUV or a constant.
  • pow() with negative arguments fixed.
  • Lower-case Texture2D handling fixed.
  • Fixed issues with 3D textures.
  • Fixed Stats Overlay for Vulkan.
  • Fixed Normals on non-Windows platforms, including Linux.
  • Linux off-by-one padding error fixed.

Unity Version Compatibility​

  • Fixed compiler errors in Unity 6 thru 6.6.
  • Fixed vertexSH, UIElements fixed, ui: changed to uie:, ifdef guards for LOD crossfade.
  • Fixed dynamic_branch fog and variant strippers in Unity 2022.3.
  • Re-encoded Glass.png due to WebP format unsupported in Unity 6.
  • Fixed .NET API compatibility and replaced deprecated/obsolete editor methods.
  • Fixed Unity's corruption of namespaces in various scripts.
  • Fixed shadows for Unity 6 and fixed Receive Casted Shadows.

URP​

  • Numerous URP compile errors fixed.
  • Light cookies fixed for Point, Direction, and Main Lights - including artifacts on cookie edges under PBR lighting caused by light color affecting light direction.
  • Only the main light cookie is subtracted in URP.
  • Distance attenuation correctly nested inside shadow attenuation.
  • Light cap now counts indirect light.
  • APV probe volume L2 assignment fixed; APV dominant light direction estimation fixed.
  • Fixed Grab Pass for URP.
  • _CameraOpaqueTexture_TexelSize added.
  • Add Pass fixed for Stylized Specular, Toon Ramp fixed in the Add Pass, ramped Light fixed for Flat shading on the Add Pass.
  • Outline lighting restored for render-feature passes, with a toggle for the outline render feature.
  • Truchet fixed for URP, Triplanar swapped to URP-appropriate modules.
  • Fixed depth normals pass missing pragma, PBR lighting and dynamic UVs fixed.
  • Noise seed changed to screen-space for URP.
  • URP projects now ignore BIRP shaders on export.

Stereo / VR / Mirrors​

  • Fixed Panosphere UV stereo offset.
    • MonoPanoProjection had an eye-dependent Y offset that was being scaled by texture tiling, producing different visual positions per eye with any tiling (especially on Decals, Main Texture, etc.). Mono mode now returns identical UVs for both eyes. StereoPanoProjection keeps eye-dependent behavior for real over-under stereo content.
  • Panosphere perspective-correct fixed.
  • Camera position fixed inside mirrors.
  • Fixed screen-space UV in mirrors.
  • LilFur mirror/camera visibility fixed.
  • General stereo rendering, mirror, and VR bug fixes.
  • Corrected various screen effects.

Locking / Shader Optimizer​

  • Orphaned Textures are now wiped out.
    • Textures left in properties Poiyomi doesn't use were being skipped by the ShaderOptimizer, which was very costly for VRAM.
  • Missing __mIDx__ declarations in Flipbook fixed, plus a follow-up pass for more missing __mIDx__ cbuffers.
  • Fixed locking issues in Matcap 3 due to a typo in the //ifex master category.
  • Fixed locking on several modules such as Grab Pass, Audio Link Theme Colors, and Squish toggle.
  • Global Masks in shading are no longer removed if any of them is marked animated.
  • LV specular removed on lock when disabled.
  • Subsurface Scattering now behaves the same when locked.
  • Height bias now locks in correctly when no texture is used.
  • isNotAnimated check added for Global Masks.
  • Fixed a DefineableCondition.ParseSingle regression that prevented some shaders from locking.

Shading & Lighting Bugs Fixed​

  • Fixed Min Brightness causing ringing on indirect color and lighting mistakes corrected on Realistic lighting.
  • Fixed direct light shading due to double-counting built-in indirect lighting.
  • Fixed add lights double-counting attenuation, add light shadows no longer skipped.
  • Ramped light map accumulation fixed.
  • BIRP light attenuation getter fixed, directional lights define fixed in BIRP.
  • Fixed Vertex Lights not showing in the fragment shader and specular for vertex lights.
  • Subsurface Scattering: Fixed spot light support, light clipping, double-add on point/spot lights, and add light contribution.
  • SDF world-coordinate translation fixed.
  • Hide In Shadow fixed, now uses the light map / ramped light map.
  • Matcap, Rim Lighting, Depth Rim Lighting, and Cubemap ordering fixed.
  • Fixed environment reflection when Rim Lighting is enabled.
  • Fixed Baked Lighting and added baked lighting pragmas to the world shader.
  • Cloth: Fixed unassigned referenced Metallic map and fixed texture sampling calling the wrong function.
  • Fixed Depth Rim Lighting ignore-lighting.
  • Fixed Bent Normals in Early Z.
  • Fixed Grab Pass outputs leaking to out-of-range values.
  • Fixed Depth Bulge misbehaving when ZClip is declared.
  • Fixed Outline width sometimes not scaling correctly with object scale.
  • Fixed a bug where Environmental Reflections in Lil Reflections had ugly flickering issues.
  • Fixed a bug where Multilayer Math shadows were double-counted.
  • Fixed a bug where SSAO and Contact Shadows had a flipped CBuffer.
  • Moved _ST placement vectors inside the CBuffer and guarded meta passes so it doesn't pull in code it cannot run.
  • Fixed ordering issues with AO and BlackLight Masking.
  • Fixed an issue with Flipbook Alpha not working in AudioLink.
  • Fixed Video Effects incorrectly pixelating the mesh, not the screen.
  • Fixed several coloring issues in Global Themes.
  • Fixed Dissolve's Edge Line Hue Shift completely missing from the feature. It has returned.
  • Corrected Matcap Circle Mask panning.
  • View Clip Prevention (Uzumore) fixed by correctly scaling to object scale, excluded from the meta pass, and now has the right UV channel.
  • Fixed LilFur's default noise texture not being linear, causing the appearance to not be accurate.
  • Fixed SDF Baking broken from some assembly definition mistakes.
  • Fixed Vertex Options having masking issues when AudioLink were driving some Vertex Options variables.

Module & Feature Bugs Fixed​

  • Fixed Theme Color in AL Spectrum double-multiplying and blend types using Range(0, 1) instead of Int.
  • Fixed Global Themes causing potential NaN at high Saturation and Brightness values.
  • Fixed missing text on Flipbook Hue Shift, causing the property to be impossible to tag as animated.
  • Fixed Decal 3 having an extra Z field even though it's unused.
  • Fixed RNG function and typos in Constellation.
  • Fixed normals and clipping, mask compile errors, keyword warnings, and dissolve on Two Pass LilFur when using Squish.
  • Fixed mixing Metallics with other modules, as well as masks, anisotropy, and undeclared identifier / redefinition errors fixed.
  • Fixed Lil Reflections in Stylized Specular not rendering correctly.
  • Fixed Circle Masks, mip count, sample call count, and circle mask panning in Matcap.
  • Fixed masking, 0-width leaking from antialiasing, and fixed mismatched _RimBlur/_Rim2Blur defaults.
  • Fixed Hue toggle, Alpha mask, ordering relative to Decals/Matcaps, and Depth Bulge with self grab in Grab Pass.
  • Fixed pixelation seams and texture reads guarded with ifdef in Video Effects.
  • Post Processing now works with Emission and Decals, and with the Add Pass and LilFur.
  • Fixed distance falloff, Audio Link ordering, Audio Link removed when unused.
  • Fixed world normals, normals, UV channel, and removal from the meta pass.
  • Fixed alpha not affecting Emission output in Voronoi and Truchet.
  • Fixed Two Pass Color Override being always active. Now falls back to main color correctly. Alpha Only option added.
  • Fixed a compiler error with Bent Normal Map.
  • Fixed AO Blocker and moved Black Light Mask up the queue.
  • World AO / SSAO no longer skipped and updated jitter and radius max range.
  • Fixed main texture sample blending.
  • Fixed various dithering issues.
  • Fixed an issue where Vertex Heightmap was being removed when it shouldn't have.
  • Fixed Render Queues not transferring when upgrading/translating materials.
  • Mitigated a Z-fighting issue when exposed to projection shaders.
  • Fixed Vertex Options masking for Audio Link.
  • Backlight moved off the light loop.
  • Fixed Alpha Options Audio Link endex clipping off Advanced Options.
  • Fixed Ignore Fog function.
  • Fixed Normal blending issues.
  • Fixed line thickness and twinkle Audio Link in Constellation.
  • Fixed Alpha Cutoff being in the wrong spot.
  • Fixed Global Mask label indentation, text alignment, and animated property marker vertical alignment.

Editor, Generation & Translation​

  • Fixed a LilToon translator write-priming bug causing every write to be primed with a throwaway value first due to a StringComparison bug.
  • Fixed Decal enum mis-mappings in LilToon's translation, and && guard replaced with || guard on HSVG in Outlines. Some corrections from LilToon's sneaky UI tricks.
  • ShaderRepresentation call hardened against null props, fixing a log error spam when upgrading materials.
  • Fixed an issue where cross-edition (Toon <-> Pro) upgrades got borked.
  • Fixed a guard against shader variants when upgrading.
  • Legacy Material Detection and translation improved twice, now using Poi.Tools.ShaderTranslator.VersionUpgrade APIs.
  • Fixed Rim Lighting translation issues from 9.3 to 10.0.
  • Fixed Outline Hue Shift behavior mismatched for cross-editor compatibility.
  • Default ShaderDestinations updated for 10.0.
  • Re-entry on Shader Generation is now guarded so double-clicking "Generate" is a no-op, fly a try/catch around sync so the progress bar is never orphaned. SessionState is used to track generation status so it always resets after errors.
  • Half-baked imports during generation are guarded to ensure no code is unfinished or stale (prevents compile errors).
  • Destination folder existence is now checked with a prompt to create it, path handling resolves relative to the Unity project (Assets or Packages).
  • Fixed resetting sections overwriting rendering settings.
  • Fixed text clipping in Helpboxes.
  • Fixed Decal Positioning Raycaster function.
  • Select All and toggle now only affect visible elements.
  • Fixed Grab Pass preset dropdown being drawn without a label.
  • Fixed GIF support by merging without a System.Drawing dependency.
  • UI now updates when shaders are auto-generated.
  • Fixed Receive Casted Shadows not being set to 1 on PBR presets.
  • Fixed modular shader generator weirdness.
  • And an assortment of typos and spelling fixes!

Removed​

  • Removed Legacy pre-9.3 shaders
    • THIS IS IMPORTANT! When upgrading to this release, your legacy materials must be translated to 9.3. You can then choose to translate your materials to 10.0 when you are ready to do so.
  • Removed Raliv DPS Integration.
  • Removed Shadow Tint from Realistic Shading (replaced by Shadow Strength).
  • Removed _ALDecalType.
  • Removed unused module collections.
  • Removed dead scripts.
  • LTCGI marked as pending deprecation.
    • This module is still available, but the feature will be removed in future versions due to VRC Light Volumes taking over. A warning was added. LTCGI should only be used in World projects.

ThryEditor 2.74.0​

ThryEditor is now a VCC Package!

Upon installing Poiyomi Toon 10.0 via the Creator Companion for the first time, ThryEditor will be automatically added as a dependency and cannot be removed unless Poiyomi is first removed.

Supplying ThryEditor separately now allows us to update ThryEditor more quickly without having to update the shader all the time for important UI-related fixes. Additionally, opens up the ability for third-party shader developers to use our toolset without needing to install Poiyomi Shaders.

This change does not affect the Poiyomi Pro version.

The list below is a compilation of all the changes since the last 9.3 version.

  • Added Global Linking.
  • Added Blueprint.
  • Fixed VRCFallback tags not being carried over on upgraded materials.
  • Fixed handling of Rendering Presets.
  • Fixed some headers unable to be marked as animated.
  • Added a Clear button for inline RGBA packers.
  • Added a "dot" indicator on Headers, which will indicate if properties contained are tagged as A or RA.
  • Refreshed the Material Lock Manager.
    • New Toolbar, allowing the ability to Group, Filter, and Search for materials directly in the UI.
      • Grouping: Sort the list by Shader, Folder, and Prefab/Scene.
      • Filter: Sort the list by materials that are Locked, Unlocked, Need Attention, or All (Split).
      • Search Bar: Shows only materials that match the typed-in keyword.
      • By default, the utility filters through the Project/Assets directory. Enabling Packages expand the list to include found materials in the Project/Packages directory, although placing Poiyomi Materials in the Packages directory is rare.
    • Grouping and Filtering set is persistent when closing and reopening the utility.
    • Window Title now matches the actual script function.
    • Fixed an issue where the list and GUI are computed every frame. It is now computed one per rebuild, saving greatly on CPU.
    • Fixed an issue where script compiling triggered a full project re-scan.
  • Locked Shader files go to Assets/_LockedShaderCache folder from now on.
    • This allows us to cache/share locked samplers across locked materials that use the same features more rigorously now, trimming down on variants wherever possible.
    • Unlocking no longer deletes cache-resident shaders, saving greatly on CPU. This should make locking twice as faster than before.
    • Cache is default set to 2048 MB and can be configured in ThryEditor Settings.
  • Added Stencil Calculator
    • New [ThryStencilCalculator] decorator that simulates the stencil test in the Inspector and shows the resulting buffer value as an editable bit grid.
    • Reference Value, Read Mask, and Write Mask can be edited bit by bit, with masked bits dimmed so it is clear which ones the test actually reads.
    • New [ThryStencilSummary] decorator that draws the same test as a decision flow, showing which of the Pass, ZFail, and Fail operations the outcome selects.
    • Added a Simulate ZFail toggle so the depth-fail case can be previewed alongside Pass and Fail.
    • Can be implemented to separate Front and Back stencils, e.g. [ThryStencilCalculator(Back)].
    • Added [ByteSlider]. Similar to [IntRange], this slider includes a foldout revealing the individual bits.
    • Added [ByteBitField], a row of 8 toggles for editing the bits of a 0-255 value.
    • Added [GUILib.SliderFoldout], a reusable slider-with-foldout row for use by other drawers.
    • Shader Developers: The example shader Thry/Example 3 demonstrates the Stencil Calculator's implementation technique.
  • Fixed Inspector Rebuild occurring often in some usage scenarios, especially during Lock/Unlock.
  • Fixed multiple ShaderProperty name collision bugs.
  • The GuessShader levenshtein sweep no longer run constantly and is only executed when absolutely needed.
  • Fixed parser parity.
  • Fixed dead URL on Right-CLick -> Locking Explanation context menu option.
  • Fixed a NullReferenceException on the Render Queue property when Right-Clicked.
  • Fixed a nasty null element found when running PropertyValueAction, which mainly affected legacy shaders.
  • Fixed a rare bug where the shader_master_label would get an asterisk* for some weird reason.
  • Fixed inlinedincludes for shaders that use it (very rare).
  • Fixed some GUI issues if for some reason Thry Editor is being used on very... very old legacy shaders (what are you doing?).
  • Fixed an issue where GetRoot() re-read mat.GetParent() every iteration, causing deep variant chains resolving to the wrong materials.
  • Fixed an old regression causing Render Queues to show incorrect readings on custom values.
  • Optimized drawing sections by skipping ones that have no properties in them.
  • Repeated property declarations are now distinct in the Cross Shader Editor, accounting for properties that are declared twice (such as _RimBlur, _OutlineSaturation, etc.).
  • A/RA tagged properties are now carried through Global Links.
  • Material resets are now detected against the correct undo group, otherwise resetting a material had to be done twice before animated properties cleared.
  • The Cross Shader Editor's layout is now balanced when a drawer exits the GUI.
  • The Cross Shader Editor now refreshes when a target is edited elsewhere.
  • [ThryHideInInspector] attributes are gathered once per shader now.
  • Several optimizations implemented that should resolve some inspector performance issues in the UI when various sections are expanded.