andydbc / unity-frosted-glass

:snowflake: Test of a frosted glass material in Unity.

unity-frosted-glass

This code reproduce a frosted glass effect in Unity (as seen in DOOM 2k16). It use a CommandBuffer attached to the main camera to render the scene in global rendertextures. A grayscale mask is then used to sample between these rendertextures in order to apply the desired blur.

Limitations

• Editor view don't render the effect.
• Tested with Unity version 2017.1.1f1

Further Reading

• Extending Unity 5 rendering pipeline: Command Buffers
• DOOM (2016) - Graphics Study

License

MIT, see LICENSE for details.