A shader to invert a sphere's normals in Unity in order to see it from inside out. Useful to create a 360 video player

FlippingNormals.shader

Shader "Flipping Normals" {
    Properties {
        _MainTex ("Base (RGB)", 2D) = "white" {}
    }
    SubShader {

        Tags { "RenderType" = "Opaque" }

        Cull Off

        CGPROGRAM

        #pragma surface surf Lambert vertex:vert
        sampler2D _MainTex;

        struct Input {
            float2 uv_MainTex;
            float4 color : COLOR;
        };

        void vert(inout appdata_full v) {
            v.normal.xyz = v.normal * -1;
        }

        void surf (Input IN, inout SurfaceOutput o) {
             fixed3 result = tex2D(_MainTex, IN.uv_MainTex);
             o.Albedo = result.rgb;
             o.Alpha = 1;
        }

        ENDCG

    }

      Fallback "Diffuse"
}

Thanks a bunch man. You saved my life

This renders the video with text back to front inside the sphere. Is there a way around this?

This renders the video with text back to front inside the sphere. Is there a way around this?

@andrewminton There's a section in https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/advanced-rendering/triplanar-mapping/ that talks about mirrored mapping. Should let you modify this one to suit.

Is it possible to programmatically adjust the alpha of this shader to allow for a fade in effect?

Is this working with URP? I cannot make it work

Thank you!

Any ideas how to flip normals when using URP without getting the pink color ?