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Unity 2018 Shaders and Effects Cookbook

You're reading from   Unity 2018 Shaders and Effects Cookbook Transform your game into a visually stunning masterpiece with over 70 recipes

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Published in Jun 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788396233
Length 392 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Post Processing Stack 2. Creating Your First Shader FREE CHAPTER 3. Surface Shaders and Texture Mapping 4. Understanding Lighting Models 5. Physically-Based Rendering 6. Vertex Functions 7. Fragment Shaders and Grab Passes 8. Mobile Shader Adjustment 9. Screen Effects with Unity Render Textures 10. Gameplay and Screen Effects 11. Advanced Shading Techniques 12. Shader Graph 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using properties in a Surface Shader

Now that we have created some properties, let's actually hook them up to the shader so that we can use them as tweaks to our shader and make the material process much more interactive. We can use the Properties values from the material's Inspector tab because we have attached a variable name to the property itself, but in the shader code, you have to set up a couple of things before you can start calling the value by its variable name.

How to do it...

The following steps show you how to use the properties in a Surface Shader:

  1. Continuing from the previous example, let's create another shader with the name ParameterExample. Just like before, remove the _MainTex property in...
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