Ransom-s-wake/game/world/sites/seabed_terrain.gdshader

shader_type spatial;
render_mode depth_draw_opaque;

// Sand / rock split by slope, matching the sonar material rule (sand under 20 deg,
// rock over 40 deg). Rock is normal-mapped triplanar in world space so cliffs and
// ledges keep their detail; sand carries an oriented ripple normal map on the xz plane.
// The mesh has no tangents: perturbed normals are built in world space and written
// to NORMAL in view space. Detail shading comes from the normal maps, a grain map
// used as ambient occlusion in the pits, and albedo mottling.

uniform vec3 sand_color : source_color = vec3(0.50, 0.46, 0.34);
uniform vec3 rock_color : source_color = vec3(0.21, 0.20, 0.18);
uniform vec3 deep_tint : source_color = vec3(0.04, 0.09, 0.15);
uniform float sand_slope_cosine = 0.9397; // cos(20 deg)
uniform float rock_slope_cosine = 0.7660; // cos(40 deg)
uniform float depth_tint_start_m = 20.0;
uniform float depth_tint_end_m = 90.0;

uniform sampler2D sand_normal_map : hint_normal, repeat_enable, filter_linear_mipmap;
uniform sampler2D rock_normal_map : hint_normal, repeat_enable, filter_linear_mipmap;
uniform sampler2D rock_grain_map : hint_default_white, repeat_enable, filter_linear_mipmap;
uniform float sand_tile_m = 3.2;
uniform float rock_tile_m = 7.0;
uniform float rock_grain_tile_m = 1.7;
uniform float sand_normal_strength = 1.0;
uniform float rock_normal_strength = 1.1;
uniform float rock_grain_normal_strength = 0.45;
uniform float grain_ao_strength = 0.5;
uniform float grain_albedo_contrast = 0.45;
uniform vec2 ripple_direction = vec2(0.8, 0.6);

varying vec3 world_position;
varying vec3 world_normal;

void vertex() {
	world_position = (MODEL_MATRIX * vec4(VERTEX, 1.0)).xyz;
	world_normal = normalize((MODEL_MATRIX * vec4(NORMAL, 0.0)).xyz);
}

vec3 unpack_normal(vec4 sample) {
	return sample.xyz * 2.0 - 1.0;
}

// Triplanar normal perturbation (UDN blend): each plane's tangent-space xy is added
// onto the world normal along that plane's axes, weighted by how much the surface
// faces the plane.
vec3 triplanar_normal(sampler2D map, vec3 position, vec3 normal, float strength) {
	vec3 weights = pow(abs(normal), vec3(4.0));
	weights /= weights.x + weights.y + weights.z;
	vec3 tx = unpack_normal(texture(map, position.zy));
	vec3 ty = unpack_normal(texture(map, position.xz));
	vec3 tz = unpack_normal(texture(map, position.xy));
	vec3 perturbation = (
		vec3(0.0, tx.y, tx.x) * weights.x
		+ vec3(ty.x, 0.0, ty.y) * weights.y
		+ vec3(tz.x, tz.y, 0.0) * weights.z
	) * strength;
	return normalize(normal + perturbation);
}

float triplanar_grain(sampler2D map, vec3 position, vec3 normal) {
	vec3 weights = pow(abs(normal), vec3(4.0));
	weights /= weights.x + weights.y + weights.z;
	return texture(map, position.zy).r * weights.x
		+ texture(map, position.xz).r * weights.y
		+ texture(map, position.xy).r * weights.z;
}

void fragment() {
	vec3 n = normalize(world_normal);
	float up = clamp(n.y, 0.0, 1.0);
	float rockness = 1.0 - smoothstep(rock_slope_cosine, sand_slope_cosine, up);

	// Sand: ripple normal map rotated to the swell direction, on the xz plane.
	vec2 ripple_axis = normalize(ripple_direction);
	vec2 sand_uv = vec2(
		dot(world_position.xz, ripple_axis),
		dot(world_position.xz, vec2(-ripple_axis.y, ripple_axis.x))
	) / sand_tile_m;
	vec3 sand_tangent = unpack_normal(texture(sand_normal_map, sand_uv));
	vec3 sand_perturbation = (
		vec3(ripple_axis.x, 0.0, ripple_axis.y) * sand_tangent.x
		+ vec3(-ripple_axis.y, 0.0, ripple_axis.x) * sand_tangent.y
	) * sand_normal_strength;
	vec3 sand_normal = normalize(n + sand_perturbation);

	// Rock: coarse triplanar normal map plus fine grain, both in world space.
	vec3 rock_normal = triplanar_normal(rock_normal_map, world_position / rock_tile_m, n, rock_normal_strength);
	rock_normal = triplanar_normal(rock_normal_map, world_position / rock_grain_tile_m, rock_normal, rock_grain_normal_strength);
	float grain = triplanar_grain(rock_grain_map, world_position / rock_grain_tile_m, n);

	vec3 shading_normal = normalize(mix(sand_normal, rock_normal, rockness));
	NORMAL = normalize((VIEW_MATRIX * vec4(shading_normal, 0.0)).xyz);

	// Albedo: mottled rock, lightly grained sand, both tinted with depth.
	vec3 rock_albedo = rock_color * (1.0 + (grain - 0.5) * 2.0 * grain_albedo_contrast);
	vec3 sand_albedo = sand_color * (1.0 + (grain - 0.5) * 0.3);
	vec3 albedo = mix(sand_albedo, rock_albedo, rockness);
	float depth_m = -world_position.y;
	float tint = smoothstep(depth_tint_start_m, depth_tint_end_m, depth_m);
	albedo = mix(albedo, deep_tint, tint * 0.6);
	ALBEDO = albedo;

	// Detail shading: pits of the grain map and ripple troughs read as occlusion.
	float rock_ao = mix(1.0, 0.45 + 0.55 * grain, grain_ao_strength);
	float sand_ao = mix(1.0, 0.8 + 0.2 * clamp(sand_tangent.z, 0.0, 1.0), grain_ao_strength * 0.6);
	AO = mix(sand_ao, rock_ao, rockness);
	AO_LIGHT_AFFECT = 0.35;
	ROUGHNESS = mix(0.95, 0.78 + 0.12 * grain, rockness);
	METALLIC = 0.0;
}