THUNGSTEN GRID

Precision gridlines for games and design tools

Project clean, anti-aliased, distance-fading gridlines with full control over size, thickness, and fade behavior.

Built for all render pipelines (BRP, HDRP, URP) with performance and clarity in mind.

Features

All features can be toggled and configured.

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✅ World- or local-space aligned grid

Projects cleanly over any surface. Perfect for terrain overlays, planning tools, simulation systems, and RTS-style maps.

📏 Multi-layer Support

Blend two grid layers (e.g. 1m / 10m) through one material shader.

🎯 Fixed Line Thickness

Gridlines retain constant width in world units - no matter the grid spacing or camera zoom.

🧪 Anti-aliased Lines

Uses screen-space derivatives to reduce shimmer and aliasing at distance.

🔄 Camera Distance Fade

Fade grids out smoothly with configurable start/end range and fade strength for each layer.

🟡 Soft Mask Fade

Fade out towards a certain world position, e.g. character position or cursor world position.

🎨 Texture Fill

Fill individual tiles in the grid with colors from a texture, allowing you to show different states such as walkable, weights, or other.

🪄 User-friendly UI

Comes with a tailored ShaderGUI that replaces the default inspector for streamlined material setup. * Added post-release in 2025.04.21a

⚙️ Fully Runtime Configurable

Easily control all features mentioned above and settings during runtime for varying and smooth effects.

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Use Cases

• Grand strategy games
• 4X games
• Real-time strategy games
• Turn based RPGs
• City builder games
• Terrain editing tools
• Design tools
• Simulation grids (heatmaps, influence zones)

Includes

• 1x Grid Decal Shader (Shader Graph) for URP and HDRP
• 1x HLSL Grid Shader for BRP
• 1x Full local documentation in HTML format
• Online documentation also available
• For each render pipeline:
• 3x Material templates with exposed controls
• 1x Demo scene with examples on show

Help and Feedback

Got feedback, questions before purchasing or need help setting up?

Join the recently started Discord or ask in the thread.

Author: develop01c

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THUNGSTEN COMMITMENT

One-time purchase. Every update, every feature - yours for good.

No "Pro" version, no feature lockouts, no upselling. The price may rise, but you keep full access.

Development transparency.

~40 hours for the initial release.

18+ hours invested into updates so far (as of September 27th, 2025).

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