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True Alpha Refraction
True Alpha Refraction is an extension for True Alpha Core that adds physically-inspired refraction, blur, and chromatic aberration to transparent materials in URP.
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About this asset
⚙️ The Problem
Traditional transparency in URP struggles with refractive materials such as glass, crystal, and ice.
Most refraction techniques rely on rendering the scene into an intermediate texture before transparent objects are drawn. This approach breaks when transparent surfaces overlap and becomes increasingly expensive as more refractive objects are added to the scene.
✅ Our Solution
True Alpha Refraction builds on True Alpha Core's Order-Independent Transparency pipeline to provide high-quality refraction, blur, and chromatic aberration.
Render many refractive objects in the same scene without repeatedly rendering the scene, while ensuring transparent objects refract and interact correctly with one another.
Perfect For
- Frosted glass
- Crystal and gemstones
- Ice and water
- Potions and bottles
- Magnifying lenses
- Sci-fi force fields
⚠️ True Alpha Refraction is an extension for True Alpha Core and will not work without it.
🛠️ Compatibilities
- Unity 6 and above
- Shader-graph
- Universal Render Pipeline using either Forward or Forward+
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Technical details
Features:
- Drop-in Shaders Included: Comes with production-ready Lit, Simple Lit, and Unlit shaders that mimic standard URP shaders but with refraction, blur and chromatic aberration.
- Shader Graph Support: Includes custom Shader Graph targets, allowing you to easily build your own custom refractive shaders from scratch.
Requirements:
- True Alpha Core
- Unity 6.0 or newer
- Universal Render Pipeline (URP)
- Vulkan, DirectX 12 or Metal
- Forward or Forward+ rendering path
Compatibility
| Unity version | Built-in | URP | HDRP |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6000.6.0f1 | Not listed | Compatible | Not listed |
| 6000.3.19f1 | Not listed | Compatible | Not listed |
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