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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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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788396233
Length 392 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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John P. Doran John P. Doran
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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

Creating an old movie screen effect

Many games are set in different times. Some take place in fantasy worlds or future sci-fi worlds, and some even take place in the Old West, where film cameras were just being developed and the movies that people watched were black and white or sometimes tinted with what is called a sepia effect. The look is very distinct, and we are going to replicate this look using a screen effect in Unity.

There are a few steps to achieving this look; just to make the whole screen black and white or grayscale, we need to break down this effect into its component parts. If we analyze some reference footage of an old movie, we can begin to do this. Let's take a look at the following image and break down the elements that make up the old movie look:

We constructed this image using a few reference images found online. It is always a good idea to try and...

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