Pear 🍐 Shader

A cozy stylized Unity shader toolkit for URP and Built-In Render Pipeline with toon lighting, quick-look presets, and artist friendly controls.

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✨ Installation

Download the latest .unitypackage from the Releases page:

https://github.com/GuMoraes11/Pear-Shader/releases

Then import it into Unity:

1. Open your Unity project.
2. Go to Assets > Import Package > Custom Package.
3. Select the latest Pear .unitypackage.
4. Import the Assets/Pear folder.

Use the correct shader for your render pipeline:

• URP: Pear/URP/Toon
• Built-In Render Pipeline: Pear/BiRP/Toon

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✨ Overview

Pear is a cozy stylized shader toolkit for Unity. It is meant to give artists, technical artists, and non-technical users a cleaner way to control toon shading, color, outlines, and stylized material effects without digging through a messy wall of shader properties.

It started as a shader for my own Unity projects, then grew into a more focused technical art portfolio project.

Pear currently includes:

• URP toon shader: Pear/URP/Toon
• Built-In Render Pipeline toon shader: Pear/BiRP/Toon
• Custom ShaderLab/HLSL toon lighting
• Two-band and three-band toon shading
• Ramp texture support
• Static and animated hue shifting
• Rim light, emission, matcap reflection, glitter shimmer, and outline controls
• A custom Unity material inspector
• Material validation warnings and keyword sync tools
• Four quick-look presets: Pear, Cozy, Bold, and Gloss

The goal is not to become a giant all-purpose shader package. Pear is intentionally smaller, readable, and focused on clean shader code, usable editor tooling, and polished stylized results.

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✨ Features

• Toon Lighting

  • Shadow threshold, softness, color, intensity, and ambient color controls.

• Multi-Band Shading

  • Optional midtone band for shadow → midtone → light workflows.

• Ramp Texture Support

  • Custom shading control through horizontal ramp textures.

• Animated Hue Shift

  • Maskable hue, saturation, brightness, and hue shift speed controls.
  • Hue shift can be static, or animated over time for color-cycling effects.

• Pear Quick-Look Presets

  • Pear, Cozy, Bold, and Gloss looks tuned around a cohesive pear-green, cream, and olive palette.

• Stylized Effects

  • Rim light, emission, matcap reflection, and glitter shimmer controls.

• Outline Pass

  • Inverted hull outline with width, color, and depth offset controls.
  • Note: inverted hull outlines can behave poorly on hard-edged meshes with split normals, such as Unity's default cylinder. Smooth, rounded, or custom meshes work best.

• Custom Inspector UI

  • Foldout groups, feature toggles, preset buttons, keyword reset, validation warnings, and a customizable accent color.

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✨ Current Presets

Pear currently has four quick-look presets:

• Pear — a clean neutral starting material with soft toon response and a pear-green base.
• Cozy — a soft, warm toon look with gentle shading, subtle rim light, and a friendly handmade feel.
• Bold — a punchier graphic toon look with stronger banding, darker olive shadows, and a readable outline.
• Gloss — a sparkly pearlescent look with rim highlights and glitter shimmer for glossy toy-like surfaces.

The presets are meant to show different material directions while still feeling like they belong to the same shader family. They are simple on purpose: enough to demonstrate the system clearly, without making the project feel scattered.

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✨ Demo Scene

The current demo scene is built around two rows:

• Feature examples: Outline, Rim, Shimmer, Matcap, and Hue Shift.
• Preset examples: Pear, Cozy, Bold, and Gloss.

This scene is intended for screenshots, GIFs, website images, and quick visual testing inside Unity.

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✨ Project Focus

Pear is currently focused on:

• Polishing the v0.2 demo scene
• Updating screenshots and website copy
• Packaging a clean PearShader_v0.2.0.unitypackage
• Keeping the shader, inspector, and presets readable enough for a portfolio review

Future work may include Pear Water, ScriptableObject-based presets, stronger outline tooling, performance modes, and a more complete breakdown of the shader architecture.

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📄 License

MIT License