Painterly Shader

🎮 Check out the live web demo here

🎁 Bundle Deal: This package is included in the Neko Legends - 3D & VFX Starter Bundle.

Before creating this shader, I spent countless hours hand-painting my 3D models (as you can see in my other assets). While rewarding, it was time-consuming—and switching painting styles (like from watercolor to airbrush or pastel) often led to inconsistent looks, making older textures unusable if consistency is the priority.

This shader transforms any texture into a beautifully painterly masterpiece, offering fine-tuned controls and deep customization—including brush effects that add unique details like cross-hatching directly into shadows—so you get a cohesive, artistic style without the hassle of repainting.

With this shader, even low-resolution, lossy textures are transformed in real time into beautiful, painterly visuals—saving you time and GPU memory while delivering consistent artistic quality.

Neko Legends Painterly Shader! 🖌️

✨ Key Features:

• 🎨 Custom Brush Strokes: Choose between screen-space or tangent-space shade effects. Adjust brush texture, scale, angle, and impact for unique painterly details
• 💡 Dynamic Emissions: Add vibrant glowing effects using emission masks and HDR colors that make your models pop
• 🌈 Advanced Color Control: Fine-tune tint, color mask, contrast, color levels, and painterly smoothness for perfect stylization
• 🔆 Cel Shading: Easily add smooth cel shading with adjustable thresholds and shadow intensity for that classic cartoon look
• 🌟 Realistic Lighting: Supports reflectivity and max point light intensity to blend painterly style with dynamic lights
• 🎭 Brush Masking: Use custom brush mask textures to precisely control where brush effects apply
• ⚙️ Flexible Filter Settings: Control filter radius and intensity for smooth or sharp painterly effects
• 🎛️ Invert Brush Option: Quickly invert brush texture for more creative variations
• 🎨 50 unique brush types — from dots • ✦ cross-hatch ✖️ impasto 🖌️ splatter 💦 glazing 🌫️ feathering 🪶 dry brush 🖤 claw marks 🐾 sgraffito ✍️ swirls 🌀 and more — customize your painterly effects with incredible artistic diversity and detail

📦 Dependencies

To experience this asset as intended as shown in the video and web demos, you’ll need the following assets from the Neko Legends collection:

✅ [Shared Assets URP (FREE)]

• Contains core demo GUI, reusable scripts, and shared 3D models and textures across all Neko Legends assets.

✅ [Food - Fruits (FREE)]

• Some models in the demo use some of my fruit models and textures

🎵 Music is included in this scene.