Terraflex – The Tessellation & Displacement Shader (URP)

Terraflex – Tessellation & Displacement Shader (URP)

One shader, real displacement. This pushes actual geometry up and down using GPU tessellation (hull/domain shaders), based on a height map you give it. So no faking it with a normal map, the silhouette actually changes, and the bumps cast real shadows on themselves instead of relying on painted in shading.

What it does:

- Real vertex displacement through hull + domain shaders, not a fragment-shader trick

- Tessellation density scales with camera distance. Full detail up close, less far away, and you control where that transition happens

- Parallax occlusion mapping if you want extra depth on top without more triangles (optional, off by default)

- Normal PBR stuff: albedo, normal map, metallic/smoothness, occlusion

- Handles Forward, Shadow Caster and Depth Only passes so shadows and depth effects behave properly on the displaced surface

- Displacement and parallax are separate toggles, each with zero cost when switched off

Before you buy:

- It works with the URP from Unity Version 6.0+

- Needs Shader Model 5.0 / DX11-class GPU. Hull and domain shaders won't run on GLES or most mobile hardware, so this isn't for phones/tablets!

- Tessellation costs GPU time. Try it on your actual target hardware first, that's exactly why the near/far distance settings exist, so you can dial in how far you push it

- A need for basic understanding of tesselation itself, we provide the shader, not the course how to use it

Where it works best:

Rocks, ground detail, anything organic where you actually want the geometry to move instead of pretending with a normal map. Works best on a base mesh that isn't wildly uneven, a mesh with a handful of huge, irregular triangles won't tessellate cleanly no matter what settings you use.