I like the idea of using Vertex colors for some parts but as of now even with the new upcoming quest shader the options for vertex is quite lacking, and i would like to see that be expanded on. I wrote a code that make simple vertex data look really good, it is a very lightweight code too.

I couldnt upload the code so ill post here in raw format.

Shader "Wicked/VertexColor_Lit"

{

Properties

{

_Brightness ("Brightness", Range(0, 2)) = 1

_ColorTint ("Color Tint", Color) = (1,1,1,1)

_MinBrightness ("Minimum Brightness", Range(0, 1)) = 0

}

SubShader

{

Tags { "RenderType"="Opaque" }

LOD 200

Pass

{

Tags { "LightMode"="ForwardBase" }

CGPROGRAM

#pragma vertex vert

#pragma fragment frag

#pragma multi_compile_fwdbase

#include "UnityCG.cginc"

#include "Lighting.cginc"

float _Brightness;

float4 _ColorTint;

float _MinBrightness;

struct appdata

{

float4 vertex : POSITION;

float3 normal : NORMAL;

float4 color : COLOR;

};

struct v2f

{

float4 vertex : SV_POSITION;

float3 worldNormal : TEXCOORD0;

float3 worldPos : TEXCOORD1;

float3 vertColor : COLOR0;

};

v2f vert(appdata v)

{

v2f o;

o.vertex = UnityObjectToClipPos(v.vertex);

o.worldNormal = UnityObjectToWorldNormal(v.normal);

o.worldPos = mul(unity_ObjectToWorld, v.vertex).xyz;

o.vertColor = GammaToLinearSpace(v.color.rgb) * _ColorTint.rgb;

return o;

}

fixed4 frag(v2f i) : SV_Target

{

float3 N = normalize(i.worldNormal);

float3 L = normalize(_WorldSpaceLightPos0.xyz);

float NdotL = max(0, dot(N, L));

float3 diffuse = NdotL * _LightColor0.rgb;

float3 ambient = ShadeSH9(float4(N, 1.0));

float3 lighting = diffuse + ambient;

lighting = lighting * (1 - _MinBrightness) + _MinBrightness;

float3 finalColor = i.vertColor _Brightness;

return fixed4(finalColor, 1.0);

}

ENDCG

}

}

FallBack "VertexLit"

}