Installation and Setup

How to install Mochie's Shaders and set up your project.

📦 Installation

Free Shaders

1. Download the latest Free Shader Package (Mochies.Unity.Shaders.vX.Free.unitypackage) from the Releases page.
2. In Unity, select Assets > Import Package > Custom Package...
3. Select the downloaded package and import everything.

The shaders install to Assets/Mochie.

🔒 Patron-Only Shaders

Patron-only shaders and packages are distributed only through Patreon, and follow the same setup process as the free package.

🌫️ Depth Texture & the Depth Light Prefab

Some features read the camera depth texture:

• Screen Space Reflections in Standard, Glass, Splat Mapping 🔒, Uber, and Water
• Water: Foam, edge fade, depth fog, and caustics
• Underwater Visuals: Blur, caustics, and fog
• Particles: Softening
• Screen FX: Depth of field, triplanar distortion, and several Screen FX X 🔒 effects
• Corruption 🔒 and Blindness 🔒

Unity only generates a depth texture when something requests it. In VRChat you can't add scripts to cameras, so the included Depth Light prefab (Assets/Mochie/Unity/Prefabs) handles it. It's a directional light with near-zero intensity and shadows enabled, which makes Unity render the depth texture. Any directional light with shadows enabled has the same effect.

• Worlds: Place a Depth Light in the scene if no directional light with shadows is present.
• Avatars: Parent a Depth Light anywhere on the avatar. Its position doesn't matter.

🧱 Render Queues

The inspectors set the render queue automatically from the blending mode:

Blending	Queue
Opaque	2000 (Geometry)
Cutout	2450 (AlphaTest)
Fade / Transparent / Grabpass	3000 (Transparent)

• Screen Space Reflections and refraction need to render after opaque geometry. For example, Standard moves opaque materials with SSR to queue 2501, and Uber's SSR and refraction require a queue of 2501 or higher.
• Render Queue Offset: Most inspectors (Standard, Glass, Water, Particles, Taken 🔒) have an offset field that adds to or subtracts from the queue above.

🧰 Editor Tools

The package includes these editor utilities. See Utilities for full details.

• Global Standard Settings: Applies specularity, lightmapping, filtering, and AreaLit settings to many Standard materials at once, and swaps materials between Standard variants.
• Texture Packer: The Pack Textures button in the inspectors packs separate PBR maps into one packed texture.
• Convert to Flipbook Asset: Converts a GIF into a texture array flipbook.
• Create Material: Creates a new material that uses Standard, Standard Lite, or Standard Mobile.
• Material Upgrader: Moves materials made with older versions of Standard or Standard Lite to the current version.