Physically Based Shading

I’m trying to implement physically based shading for Urho3d and its deferred shader.

Physically based shading uses the Cook Torrance shading model. I’m implementing Epic’s Model

This is a log.

Material textures required:
Base Color (RGB):

Roughness (Greyscale):

Metallic (Greyscale):

if metallic == 1.0 (White) (is metal)
specular = albedbo
else if metallic == 0.0 (Black) (is dialect)
diffuse = albedo
fixed reflectance value (linear: 0.04 sRGB: 0.06)
else
reflectivity from albedo
diffuse = albedo * metallic

Cavity (Greyscale):
s.diffuseLight *= cav *diffuseCavityStrength
s.specularLight *= cav * specularCavityStrength

Normal Map:
Use Urho’s xGxR.

Shaders are in Bin\CoreData\Shaders.

ShaderVariation* Graphics::GetShader(ShaderType type, const char* name, const char* defines) const;

DeferredLight.glsl is deferred lighting.

Can someone explain how the shaders in Urho3d work?

Reserved space.

This is the relevant documentation in the doxygen docs. It’s not that much or detailed; practically you just have to dive into the existing shader code to figure it out.

Materials:
urho3d.github.io/documentation/a00021.html

Shaders:
urho3d.github.io/documentation/a00022.html

I think I’ll have to add Roughness, Metalness and Cavity to <texture unit=“diffuse|normal|specular|emissive|environment” . Is it defined in the c++?

Extra material parameters for shaders can be defined fully data-driven, you don’t have to touch C++. Though you might want to setup defaults in the Material class if you like.

For example the terrain shader code (CoreData/Shaders/HLSL/TerrainBlend.hlsl) defines a float2 uniform constant like this (these need to be prefixed with ‘c’)

uniform float2 cDetailTiling;

A value for it is assigned in the Data/Materials/Terrain.xml:

    <parameter name="DetailTiling" value="32 32" />