Cool hologram shader that works with everything!

I figured out that if you just make all the BaseParts in a model/folder/instance transparent and add 6 Textures to each BasePart (all with different faces) with a texture of something like this:


You can make something that looks like this:

(random car from the toolbox)
And by adding some handler code, you can even make it animated, tho i cant show that here for… reasons.

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This is pretty cool. Not super surprising as it’s literally just a texture, but with a few tweaks such as glow and such, it could definitely look good.

I present to you… hologram sonic, hologram human, and hologram bacon hair:


Thanks for sharing!
:wink:

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i might just be stupid on this one but how do you make it glow? that isnt just like a point light right?

best i can do is this, dont know if thats the same you have done tho


maybe it is… idk

You can make the color property from texture/decal goes way above the 255 limit

whyyyyyyyy did noone tell me this before :D, thanks

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Little update on this, i have used this “shader” effect to make a hologram projector, showcase here:

(the effect that some parts of the projected model are missing is achived simply by generating random little glass parts with transparency 0.999 around the model [and as roblox doesnt render transparent parts through glass you get this])

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Is there no humanoid in those objects? From what I understand you cannot use this in a humanoid as it removes the affect, how did you get those to glow if you did not?

how exactly did you make the glow effect work? I tried adding a point light into the middle of the model but the glow effect fades away based on the viewing distance. I want to achieve a consistent look with it. Your picture looks really good!

you’re correct there are no humanoids in the examples i provided, just used mesh. sorry for late response :sob::pray:

just set the color values past 255. they’re not clamped for some reason so it allows for artificial emissiveness in textures.

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also it was said earlier in the thread :/

Even when I copy your color code it still doesn’t glow. I also increased the numbers in the color but still :confused:

check what i said at the top of my post, it unfortunately doesn’t work with humanoids.
however, roblox has recently added emissive support for pbr textures. it’s on hold rn but once it releases it’ll make all of this basically useless and should be used instead.

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