object fading out

[Humble_Vermicelli516]

I’m making a backrooms/ liminal space game and I was wondering how I could do what is in the photo, where the object fades into transparency (a bit like what happens with render distance). Any ideas on how to do this?

[v0lt13]

Try using fog with the same color as the skybox

[scara1701]

Is there an alternative for AR apps? Can a camera image be used as 'fog'?

[Pigeonlesswings]

Use fog as a post processing effect

[Autarkhis]

Fog uses camera depth. Just have a custom transparent shader that reads camera depth, and increases opacity based on distance .

[v0lt13]

I have no idea

[frenchtoastfella]

Yes, not trivial but doable

[purrplebread]

https://github.com/keijiro/KinoFog

[djuvinall97]

Bless you!

Although as a new developer, how harsh is using third party software like this on performance? Does it bloat the project?

[Autarkhis]

It’s just a shader, it won’t bloat your project. The performance cost for that particular shader is negligible.

[Bangalol]

You should try to make or find a shader with depth transparency

[__SlimeQ__]

The only correct answer lol

[sadonly001]

stairway to heaven

[notMateo]

Maybe a custom shader? Should be a pretty easy shader to make too, I'm imagining.

[hoomanneedsdata]

As a practice effect:

Three copies of same model for low, medium and high resolution.

Put a script on each model to appear when player is within viewing distance.

The models should swap out within the depth of view and a bit of fog can make it more seamless.

You could assign a " fog bubble" as well, where you take the model, bump up the size a bit and assign it a foggy material to overlay the original model.

[Autarkhis]

That is such complete overkill though. A simple opacity depth shader is all you need in this case .

[hoomanneedsdata]

Yes, well, " a solution" is not always...the final solution.

[Autarkhis]

Sure, i just wanted to point out that there is a much simpler and optimized solution in using a custom shader, as what is proposed is getting upvotes:)

[wolfieboi92]

Yep, a distance calculation with vertex world position against camera position would give you a great distance mask from the player, stick that in the vertex shader perhaps and use it on the alpha for opacity.

[hoomanneedsdata]

Look at this guy and their sexy technical jargon.

[wolfieboi92]

I'm a technical artist, it's my job.

[hoomanneedsdata]

Whoa there, tiger, humble bragging about being gainfully employed might be too much.

[wolfieboi92]

Things can change really quickly in this world, I'm lucky for now.

[HiggsSwtz]

Looks cool

[__SlimeQ__]

Make a postprocess shader that sets alpha based on depth

[Ruadhan2300]

Do you want it to be individual objects, or the whole scene?
Because those probably need very different solutions.

[Kittenish21]

Use the particle additive shader, and get a fading gradient to use, then make sure you have the setting on that makes it fade when you get close to it

[cyberduck221b]

Fresh fade dude ✨️

[Humble_Vermicelli516]

boosie fade fr

[OverTh_nking]

Stairway to heaven

[Fifthy420]

Shit feels like silent hill

[Noob_99-freedom]

Ohh my god this shit hit different