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Become a Unity Shaders Guru

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837636747
Length 492 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

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 21. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Some Quick Refreshers on Shaders in Unity

Diving deeper into the SRPs

One of the core ideas with the new SRPs is to allow developers even more granularity in the customization of their rendering process by letting them code their entire rendering pipeline. It is a continuation of the CommandBuffers we saw in the Using the built-in render pipeline section, but with more choice and more control.

This can be particularly valuable if you want to optimize your graphics or your rendering resources in a certain way, typically to better fit low-tier platforms. For the more devoted graphics programmer, it is a great feature because creating your own custom render pipeline from start to finish is the ultimate way to merge aesthetics and performance.

Note that while there is no extensive documentation on that topic yet and it does involve more work than just using one of the templates, we will go through the basics of this in Chapter 10. Another approach to tackling this steep learning curve can also be to use the framework’...

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