🎨 The Idea🎨
Combine antialiased sprite rendering with physically based shading.
MK Sprite Shader is built to make sprites look stable: less shimmering, less crawling pixels, less flicker, jitter free — even when zooming, rotating, or viewing at steep angles.
It blends crisp Pixel-Art or Smooth Art with physically-inspired lighting (normal maps, smoothness/metallic, height, AO, light transmission), and offers three renderer modes — Default, Hybrid, and Pixel Art — so you can choose anything from clean smooth art to crisp antialiased pixel art.
One material, multiple use cases: Sprite Renderer, URP 2D Renderer, and 3D meshes (quads, billboards, even regular 3D geometrie) — no material swapping required.
📦The Package📦
- 3 stylized shaders for unlit, simple lighting, and physically based shading
- Bonus: Pixelated Skybox shader. Add a simple gradient based sky and mix a pixelated look to it.
Demo: WebGL
✨ Core Rendering
- 🧼 Antialiased sprite sampling to reduce shimmer & flicker at distance, zoom, and glancing angles
- 🟪 Hybrid (adaptive AA smoothing — balances crisp + smooth)🟥 Pixel Art (antialiased point sampling — keeps pixel definition, reduces crawl)🎛️ 3 modes:
🟦 Default (standard shading) - 🧩 One shader for: SpriteRenderer ✅ Meshes/Quads/3D ✅ URP 2D Renderer ✅ URP 3D Renderer ✅ Built-in Renderer ✅
💡 Lighting & “PBR-ish” Style
- 🌞 Lit sprite workflow with specular + smoothness controls
- 🧱 Normal map support for depth & directional highlights
- 🌗 Rim lighting (Simple / Split) for stylized edge pop
- 🕯️ Indirect lighting fade support (per-object tuning)
🎨 Stylization Toolkit
- 🌈 Gradient (Mix / Add / Multiply)
- 🎚️ Color grading (pre- or post-composite): contrast, saturation, brightness, hue
- 🧊 Posterize with smoothness/fade/levels
- 🧬 Overlay Color/Texture (Mix / Add / Multiply) with blink controls
- 🖊️ Alpha Outline (Performance / Quality Modes) + noise + flow
- 🌾 Grain (procedural)
- 🌫️ Drop shadow custom sprite
- 🪩 Holographic layer + optional glitter (view-dependent, stylized foil look)
🌀 Animation & VFX Controls
- 🧻 Dissolve (pattern map + border ramp)
- 🧭 Scroll UV (direction + speed)
- 💡 Flicker (speed + offset)
- 💥 Vertex shake (speed/intensity + axis weights + stutter)
- 🌊 UV distortion (DuDv map + flow)
🧱 Production-Friendly
- 🚀 GPU Instancing ready
- 🪞 Double-sided rendering option
- ✂️ Alpha clipping toggle
- 📦 Works across 2D/3D scenes without changing materials
