Shader Graph Support

You can use the Unity Shader Graph to create custom materials for visionOS. These will previewed in their compiled form within Unity, but converted to MaterialX for display in simulator and on device. While MaterialX is very expressive, some Shader Graph nodes have no analog in materialX. Within the Shader Graph editor, unsupported nodes will be indicated by the presence of a # symbol.

For technical, security, and privacy reasons, visionOS does not allow Metal-based shaders or other low level shading languages to run when using AR passthrough.

Texture Limitations

When sampling textures in shader graphs, note that the sampler state (filter, wrap modes) associated with the texture itself is ignored. Instead, you must use the Sampler State node to control how the texture is sampled if you want to use a mode other than the default (linear filtering, repeat wrap mode).

Coordinate Space Notes

There are two caveats to be aware of when converting between coordinate spaces in shader graphs. Because content is transformed according to the Volume Camera, the "world space" geometry returned within a shader graph will not match that of the simulation scene. Furthermore, visionOS is currently inconsistent with regards to the geometry it returns and the transformation matrices it supplies.

Retrieving the Geometry of the Source Scene

To obtain positions, normals, tangents, or bitangents in the world space of the simulation scene, use the Position, Normal Vector, Tangent Vector, or Bitangent Vector nodes with Space: World, then transform them using the PolySpatial Volume to World node with a Transform appropriate to the type (typically Position for positions and Direction for the rest, which will be normalized after transformation).

Notes on Transform and Transformation Matrix Nodes in VisionOS

The matrices returned by the Transformation Matrix node and used by the Transform node are obtained directly from visionOS and currently assume a world space that does not match either the simulation scene or the output of the Position, Normal Vector, Tangent Vector, or Bitangent Vector nodes. The "world space" output of those nodes is relative to the transform of the output volume--that is, it does not change when a bounded app volume is dragged around. The Transform and Transformation Matrix nodes, on the other hand, assume a world space that is shared between all app volumes. To get geometry in this world space, use the geometry (e.g., Position) node with Space: Object and transform it with the Transform node set to From: Object and To: World.

Input Properties

Shader graph properties must be set to Exposed in order to be set on a per-instance basis. Globals must not be Exposed, and global values must be set in C# using the methods of PolySpatialShaderGlobals.

Time-based Animation

Note that visionOS materials do not support global properties natively, and thus PolySpatial must apply global properties separately to all material instances, which may affect performance. For animation, consider using the PolySpatial Time node rather than the standard Unity shader graph Time. While PolySpatial Time will not be exactly synchronized with Time.time (notably, it will not reflect changes to Time.timeScale), it is supported natively in visionOS and does not require per-frame property updates.

Supported Targets

The Universal and Built-In targets are supported for conversion. For both targets, the Lit and Unlit materials are supported, as well as the Opaque and Transparent surface types and the Alpha Clipping setting. For Transparent surfaces, the Alpha, Premultiply, and Additive blending modes are supported. No other target settings are currently supported for conversion. Due to platform limitations, all materials will have Front render face, depth writes enabled, LEqual depth testing, and tangent space fragment normals.

Shader Graph Nodes

The following tables show the current support status for Shader Graph nodes in PolySpatial for visionOS including a list of supported nodes and their various caveats.

If a node doesn't appear here it means that it's not currently supported. Note that this list will be updated as we continue to add support for more nodes.

Artistic

Section	Node	Notes
Adjustment	Channel Mixer	✓ Supported
	Contrast	✓ Supported
	Hue	✓ Supported
	Invert Colors	✓ Supported
	Replace Color	✓ Supported
	Saturation	✓ Supported
	White Balance	✓ Supported
Blend	Blend	✓ Supported
Filter	Dither	Only default Screen Position is supported.
	Fade Transition	✓ Supported
Mask	Channel Mask	✓ Supported
	Color Mask	✓ Supported
Normal	Normal Blend	✓ Supported
	Normal From Height	✓ Supported
	Normal From Texture	✓ Supported
	Normal Reconstruct Z	✓ Supported
	Normal Strength	✓ Supported
	Normal Unpack	✓ Supported
Utility	Colorspace Conversion	✓ Supported

Channel

Section	Node	Notes
Channel	Combine	✓ Supported
	Flip	✓ Supported
	Split	✓ Supported
	Swizzle	✓ Supported

Input

Custom Interpolators are limited to these specific/names types:

• Color: Vector4

• UV0: Vector2

• UV1: Vector2

• UserAttribute: Vector4

  Section	Node	Notes
  Basic	Boolean	✓ Supported
  	Color	✓ Supported
  	Constant	✓ Supported
  	Integer	✓ Supported
  	Slider	✓ Supported
  	Time	✓ Supported
  	Float	✓ Supported
  	Vector2	✓ Supported
  	Vector3	✓ Supported
  	Vector4	✓ Supported
  Geometry	Bitangent Vector	Tangent and View space options are not standard.
  	Normal Vector	Tangent and View space options are not standard.
  	Position	Tangent and View space options are not standard.
  	Screen Position	✓ Supported
  	Tangent Vector	Tangent and View space options are not standard.
  	UV	✓ Supported
  	Vertex Color	✓ Supported
  	Vertex ID	✓ Supported
  	View Direction	✓ Supported
  Gradient	Blackbody	✓ Supported
  	Gradient	✓ Supported
  	Sample Gradient	✓ Supported
  Lighting	Ambient	✓ Supported
  	Main Light Direction	✓ Supported
  Matrix	Matrix 2x2	✓ Supported
  	Matrix 3x3	✓ Supported
  	Matrix 4x4	✓ Supported
  	Transformation Matrix	Tangent and View space options are not standard.
  PBR	Dielectric Specular	✓ Supported
  	Metal Reflectance	✓ Supported
  Scene	Camera	Position and Direction outputs supported (non-standard).
  	Eye Index	✓ Supported
  	Object	✓ Supported
  	Scene Depth	Platform doesn't allow have access to the depth buffer, this is just the camera distance in either clip or view space.
  	Screen	✓ Supported
  Texture	Cubemap Asset	✓ Supported
  	Sample Cubemap	✓ Supported
  	Sample Reflected Cubemap	✓ Supported
  	Sample Texture 2D	✓ Supported
  	Sample Texture 2D LOD	✓ Supported
  	Sample Texture 3D	✓ Supported
  	Sampler State	MirrorOnce wrap mode not supported.
  	Texture 2D Asset	✓ Supported
  	Texture 3D Asset	✓ Supported
  	Texture Size	✓ Supported

Math

Section	Node	Notes
Advanced	Absolute	✓ Supported
	Exponential	✓ Supported
	Length	✓ Supported
	Log	✓ Supported
	Modulo	✓ Supported
	Negate	✓ Supported
	Normalize	✓ Supported
	Posterize	✓ Supported
	Reciprocal	✓ Supported
	Reciprocal Square Root	✓ Supported
Basic	Add	✓ Supported
	Divide	✓ Supported
	Multiply	✓ Supported
	Power	✓ Supported
	Square Root	✓ Supported
	Subtract	✓ Supported
Interpolation	Inverse Lerp	✓ Supported
	Lerp	✓ Supported
	Smoothstep	✓ Supported
Matrix	Matrix Construction	✓ Supported
	Matrix Determinant	✓ Supported
	Matrix Split	✓ Supported
	Matrix Transpose	✓ Supported
Range	Clamp	✓ Supported
	Fraction	✓ Supported
	Maximum	✓ Supported
	Minimum	✓ Supported
	One Minus	✓ Supported
	Random Range	✓ Supported
	Remap	✓ Supported
	Saturate	✓ Supported
Round	Ceiling	✓ Supported
	Floor	✓ Supported
	Round	✓ Supported
	Sign	✓ Supported
	Step	✓ Supported
	Truncate	✓ Supported
Trigonometry	Arccosine	✓ Supported
	Arcsine	✓ Supported
	Arctangent	✓ Supported
	Arctangent2	✓ Supported
	Cosine	✓ Supported
	Degrees to Radians	✓ Supported
	Hyperbolic Cosine	✓ Supported
	Hyperbolic Sine	✓ Supported
	Hyperbolic Tangent	✓ Supported
	Radians to Degrees	✓ Supported
	Sine	✓ Supported
	Tangent	✓ Supported
Vector	Cross Product	✓ Supported
	Distance	✓ Supported
	Dot Product	✓ Supported
	Fresnel Effect	✓ Supported
	Projection	✓ Supported
	Reflection	✓ Supported
	Refract	✓ Supported
	Rejection	✓ Supported
	Rotate About Axis	✓ Supported
	Sphere Mask	✓ Supported
	Transform	Some spaces are simulated and not covered in tests.
Wave	Noise Sine Wave	✓ Supported
	Sawtooth Wave	✓ Supported
	Square Wave	✓ Supported
	Triangle Wave	✓ Supported

Procedural

Section	Node	Notes
Procedural	Checkerboard	✓ Supported
Noise	Gradient Noise	✓ Supported
	Voronoi	Cells output not supported.
Shapes	Ellipse	✓ Supported
	Polygon	✓ Supported
	Rectangle	✓ Supported
	Rounded Polygon	✓ Supported
	Rounded Rectangle	✓ Supported

Utility

Section	Node	Notes
Utility	Custom Function	See custom function node conversion notes.
	PolySpatial Environment Radiance	See lighting notes.
	PolySpatial Lighting	See lighting notes.
	PolySpatial Time	Non-standard shader graph node specific to PolySpatial. Implements the time function as described in the MaterialX Spec.
	Preview	✓ Supported
	Split LR	Non-standard shader graph node specific to PolySpatial. Implements the splitlr function as described in the MaterialX Spec.
Logic	Branch	✓ Supported
	Comparison	✓ Supported
	Is Infinite	✓ Supported
	Is NaN	✓ Supported
	Or	✓ Supported

UV

Section	Node	Notes
UV	Flipbook	✓ Supported
	Polar Coordinates	✓ Supported
	Radial Shear	✓ Supported
	Rotate	✓ Supported
	Spherize	✓ Supported
	Tiling and Offset	✓ Supported
	Triplanar	✓ Supported
	Twirl	✓ Supported