Alternative for Decal Spawning

[Deckard_89]

I think the surface system is a truly brilliant feature and very simple to use, but it has one major drawback, and that is the reliance on colliders for the placement of decals. I think we need an alternative, either as a future update or through integration with an asset that offers the functionality, in which decals are placed directly on the mesh renderer. Even very old games I played in the '90s had decals drawn properly on geometry and even skinned characters, so I think this would be of great benefit to UCC and the people using it, I'm sure we can all agree.

 

[Deckard_89]

There are some assets on the store that have decals for skinned meshes:

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effects/skinned-decals-133483

https://assetstore.unity.com/packag...fects/uvpaint-skinned-mesh-decal-system-61022

Having official integration with one of these would be great, as it's mostly skinned meshes that are the hardest to make accurate colliders for. With this technique you would not need additional colliders on your characters.

 

[m3nth0l]

I use the skinned decals asset with no issues. The setup is pretty straight forward, and wouldn't require an "official integration" - just create the decal on the OnImpact event. I'm pretty happy with the asset, however the support is non existent FWIW.

 

[FMWFiremage]

Check out this skinned decal forum section, there is a useful bit of integration code for UCC. I haven't tried it myself but could be useful if anyone uses the asset.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/skinned-decals.597532/#post-4309912

 

[Deckard_89]

Thanks for the responses guys, I think I'm going to give Skinned Decals a try. The only problem is the developer doesn't seem to be answering support requests on the forum. "UV Paint" seems to have a more supportive developer, but the asset itself seems like overkill for what I'm trying to do.

 

[voktu]

Hi, if you can use HDRP, it provides a decal system.