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Soft Foliage Shader Breakdown (Cyanilux)

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Soft Foliage Shader Breakdown is a March 2021 Cyanilux post documenting soft-shaded foliage for Unity URP Shader Graph, with full notes beyond the original Twitter demo.

It covers Particle System quads baked with BakeMesh, optional outward normals, an Unlit Graph with alpha clipping, GitHub Main Light subgraphs, Lambertian diffuse remapping, and sine-based vertex wind in world space.

For intermediate artists comfortable with Shader Graph and editor scripts; it warns that in-shader normals break under static or dynamic batching.

Sections are Intro, Notes, Foliage Mesh, Shader Graph, Shading, and Wind with screenshots; free on cyanilux.com.

Widely shared among Unity shader practitioners for bush and shrub prototypes without foliage middleware.