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

Creating hundreds of rooms with one cube… and interior mapping

Throughout the Faking depths and heights with parallax mapping section, we examined a fairly old and common technique for faking depth with a minimal amount of base geometry: parallax mapping. But in the last few years, there is another trick that shader artists have started to work on more and more, which specifically aims at creating great interior rooms in buildings very efficiently.

For example, if you have ever played the amazing 2019 Marvel’s Spider-Man PS4 video game, you might have noticed that they managed to populate the interior of their buildings in a pretty convincing way (see Figure 6.33; image from https://polycount.com/discussion/204601/interior-mapping-in-spider-man-ps4).

Figure 6.33 – The PS4 Marvel’s Spider-Man video game from 2019 (by Sony Interactive Entertainment) used interior mapping to give depth to the buildings in the city

However, as...