Bayla's ASCII Art Shader

Transform textures and avatars into stylized retro text art in real time. This lightweight, procedural ASCII shader gives your VRChat avatars and worlds a classic terminal or CRT aesthetic without needing external font atlases.

Key Features

• 100% Procedural Glyphs: Uses internal uint bitmasks, eliminating extra texture dependencies and extra draw calls.
• Full Color Control: Retain sampled texture colors or apply a solid ink color for a classic green-screen or amber terminal look, plus a dedicated background color and saturation/hue shift grading.
• Luminance Fine-Tuning: Adjust grid density, brightness thresholds, and contrast to hit your exact visual style.
• High Resolution Mode: Switch to 5x7 glyphs for finer detail when you need it.
• VR & Performance Ready: Includes single-pass stereo and instancing macros for low-overhead performance in VRChat.

Credits

Product preview is using Yip by Zelfine with permission. (Thanks, Zelf! 💕)