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• Supported on DX11+, OpenGL 3.2+, OpenGL ES 3.1+AEP, PS4/XB1 consoles.
  
• Not supported on DX9, DX11 9.x (WinPhone), OpenGL ES 2.0/3.0/3.1, Metal.
  

Getting Started

1. Create a new material and select a Wireframe Shader.

   

2. Apply the material to a Renderer.

3. Adjust the material properties to your liking.

Unlit

The Unlit shader, as the name suggests, is not affected by lights at all. PBR properties like smoothness, emission and metallic are disabled.

Bumped Diffuse

Diffuse computes a simple (Lambertian) lighting model. The lighting on the surface decreases as the angle between it and the light decreases. The lighting depends only on this angle, and does not change as the camera moves or rotates around.

VR

All Wireframe Shaders support VR, because they are based on Unity's built-in shaders. When performance is important, consider disabling the Glow and Fade features and using the Unlit or Bumped Diffuse shader.

Projector

Add a projector to your scene. Create a projector material and apply it to the projector. The Mask property defines the projector cookie.

Property Documentation

Rendering Mode: This allows you to choose whether the object uses transparency, and if so, which type of blending mode to use.

Alpha Cutoff: Threshold for alpha cutoff when choosing a Cutout rendering mode.

Two-Sided: Render the wireframe on both triangle faces.

- Wireframe -

Property	Description
Albedo	Wire texture and color.
UV Set	UV0: The wire texture will be drawn following the usual first UV channel. Barycentric: The wire texture will be drawn with barycentric coordinates.
Opacity	Determines the opacity of the wireframe on top of the surface.
Transparency	Determines the transparency, regardless of the surface properties.
Emission	Light emission of the wireframe.
Metallic	Wire metallic property for Physically Based Rendering.
Smoothness	Wire smoothness property for Physically Based Rendering.
Lighting Mode	Surface: The wireframe is painted on the surface Overlay: The wireframe lies stiff on top of the surface Unlit: The wireframe is not affected by lights or shadows. (Best performance)
Thickness	The width of the wire.
Wire Style	Default: Straight rectangular wires. (Best performance) Smooth: Smooth transitions at vertex points.
Smoothing	Determines how much to smooth out wires at vertex points.
Invert Wireframe	Wireframe gets surface properties and surface gets wireframe properties. (This will disable glow properties.)
Quad Mesh	Approximate a Quad Mesh Wireframe. Best with Barycentric rendering.
Mask	Mask texture to hide or fade parts of the wireframe. White pixels are shown, black pixels are hidden.
Distance Scale	This determines how the distance field is calculated. Default: Normalized by dividing by the minimum distance. This solves the artefacts caused by pure barycentrics. Screen Space: All wires have equal width in screen space. (Not supported with a smooth Wire Style) World Space: All wires have equal width in world space. Barycentric: Pure barycentric distance field.
Anti-aliasing	This will anti-alias the transition between wire and surface (not the wire texture itself).

- Surface -

This panel is based on Unity’s Standard Shader material. For more information, go to this documentation page. Height Maps and Secondary Maps are not supported.

- Glow -

This package allows you to add a glow or a barycentric gradient radiating from the edges. Note that the same effect can be achieved with greater control using a wireframe albedo texture with a height of 1 pixel and UV Set set to Barycentric.

Property	Description
Enable	Enable or disable glow. (Disable for best performance)
Color	The color of the glow.
Emission	Light emitting with the color above.
Distance	The distance on the surface affected by the glow.
Power	The strength of the glow.

- Fade -

These settings control the fading in/out of the wireframe when the camera gets close/far.

Property	Description
Enable	Enable or disable fading. (Disable for best performance)
Fade To	Surface: Fade to the surface when the camera is far away. Wire: Fade to the wire material when the camera is far away.
Distance	Fading distance from the camera.
Transition Speed	Fading transition speed.

- Preferences -

Property	Description
Use Slider Limits	Enable or disable property sliders where appropriate. This enables/disables the range limits for some float values.
Cull Mode	Backface culling mode.
ZWrite	Controls whether pixels from this material are written to the depth buffer. This option resets when changing the render mode.

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