Screen Shake

Converted from = https://www.shadertoy.com/view/tdSyWz

  1. Create a Canvas Layer.
  2. Create a Color Rect as a child of the Canvas Layer.
  3. On the Color Rect -> Material -> Select “ShaderMaterial” -> Shader -> New Shader
  4. Type: Shader
  5. Mode: Canvas Item
  6. Template: Default
  7. Built-in Shader: false
  8. Load
  9. Copy paste the code into you shader and boom done.
  10. Simply adjust the shake strength to a non zero value to get it working

 

if you then want to call this from a godot script do somthing like this:

Consideration:
In this script the shake strength and time are basically one and the same in a more polished version seperate the two into a shake time and strength varaible and use a lerp based on current time to reduce the current strength.
That way a strength of 60 wont take a minute to stop shaking.

extends CanvasLayer

 

var strength = 2;

var curStrength = 0;

# Called when the node enters the scene tree for the first time.

func _ready():

pass # Replace with function body.

 

 

# Called every frame. ‘delta’ is the elapsed time since the previous frame.

func _process(delta):

curStrength = max(curStrength – delta, 0);

if(Input.is_action_just_pressed(“SpaceBar”)):

curStrength = strength;

 

$ColorRect.material.set_shader_parameter(“ShakeStrength”, max(curStrength,0))

 

Shader code
/*
	Camera Shake Effect Shader by @Near

	MIT License
*/

shader_type canvas_item;
uniform float ShakeStrength = 0;
uniform vec2 FactorA  = vec2(100.0,100.0);
uniform vec2 FactorB  = vec2(1.0,1.0);
uniform vec2 magnitude = vec2(0.01,0.01);
uniform sampler2D SCREEN_TEXTURE : hint_screen_texture, filter_linear_mipmap;

void fragment() {
    vec2 uv = SCREEN_UV;
	uv -= 0.5;
    uv *= 1.0 - 2.0 * magnitude.x;
    uv += 0.5;
	vec2 dt = vec2(0.0, 0.0);
	dt.x = sin(TIME * FactorA.x+FactorB.x) * magnitude.x;
	dt.y = cos(TIME *FactorA.y+ FactorB.y) * magnitude.y;
	COLOR = texture(SCREEN_TEXTURE,uv + (dt*ShakeStrength));
}

Tags
Post Effect, screen, Shake
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Godot User
Godot User
9 months ago

It gives me an error “Redefinition of SCREEN_TEXTURE”