Guys Retro Effects -- ASCII!

a performant and plug-and-play shader that turns your avatar, your prop, or your whole world into ascii characters!

check out a world where its been applied to the video player Here!

two versions to pick from:

ASCII (Poiyomi Pro)

bakes into your existing poiyomi pro shader as a module! this one can just plug

into any existing avatar with poiyomi materials.

ASCII (Standalone)

its own self contained shader! if you dont have poiyomi pro, this is what you can work with.

it comes with:

a generator for character sets!

pick from a slew of preset options, or make your own range of characters for the shader to work with!

optional limited palettes! pick from a range of preset options, or make your own!

various modes for how the grid is rendered, for every possible look!

transparency

the background can be a solid fill, the real surface, or blocky squares lined up with the grid. you can even turn it off completely and leave the characters floating in the air with nothing behind them!

emission and audiolink support!

whats in the box

- both shaders, and a one click builder for the poi module

- the character set generator and the palette generator

- a demo scene, with a prepared avatar and some demo objects inside it

- a demo avatar, prepared for fullbody, with the effect already set up!

- two demo prefabs, little primitive lamps that you can put on your own avatars, one with a light and one without!

- demo materials, a spin animation, and a matching free particle shader

- a plain english guide that explains every single setting you can play with!

requirements

- unity

- poiyomi PRO for the module version (any recent 10.x, tested on 10.0.14! older should work all the way down to poi 8, but no promises!)

- nothing extra at all for the standalone version

- audiolink, but it is optional, only if you want the glow of emissives to react to music!

credit to some friends for helping with the vrchat pictures! the video used as a frame and as the video demo is from a Joel G video, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPHLojHUCvk)