You're reading from Become a Unity Shaders Guru Create advanced game visuals using code and graphs in Unity 2022

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837636747

Length 492 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Unity

Concepts

Game Optimization

Author (1):

Mina Pêcheux

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Creating Shaders in Unity

2. Chapter 1: Re-Coding a Basic Blinn-Phong Shader with Unity/CG FREE CHAPTER

3. Part 2: Stepping Up to URP and the Shader Graph

4. Chapter 2: The Three Unity Render Pipelines

5. Chapter 3: Writing Your First URP Shader

6. Chapter 4: Transforming Your Shader into a Lit PBS Shader

7. Chapter 5: Discovering the Shader Graph with a Toon Shader

8. Part 3: Advanced Game Shaders

9. Chapter 6: Simulating Geometry Efficiently

10. Chapter 7: Exploring the Unity Compute Shaders and Procedural Drawing

11. Chapter 8: The Power of Ray Marching

12. Part 4: Optimizing Your Unity Shaders

13. Chapter 9: Shader Compilation, Branching, and Variants

14. Chapter 10: Optimizing Your Code, or Making Your Own Pipeline?

15. Part 5: The Toolbox

16. Chapter 11: A Little Suite of 2D Shaders

17. Chapter 12: Vertex Displacement Shaders

18. Chapter 13: Wireframes and Geometry Shaders

19. Chapter 14: Screen Effect Shaders

20. Index

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Appendix: Some Quick Refreshers on Shaders in Unity

Browsing some extra ideas

To end this chapter, I want to take a bit of time to mention amazing tutorials or resources that show vertex displacement shaders that I think are definitely worth studying to expand your knowledge of this domain. Never forget that learning about shaders (or any domain for that matter) is also about keeping an eye out for what other creators are doing, and what tools or techniques they’re exploring – especially when you get to an advanced level and know all the basics.

So here, we’ll discuss a simple Voronoi-based blob-like deformation shader, an interactive map shader, and a dynamic melting candle shader.

Unity’s official vertex displacement tutorial

If you want to see a very common application of vertex displacement, you can have a look at Unity’s official learning material on vertex displacement shaders, available at: https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/shader-graph-vertex-displacement.

In this quick guide, the...