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

Going realistic with the HDRP render pipeline

Contrary to the URP, which is meant to handle diverse use cases and platforms, the HDRP focuses on a more specific application – the creation of 3D (hyper)photorealistic renders for high-end platforms, such as desktops or consoles.

The need for such a rendering tool has emerged for different reasons – most notably, because, as Unity has reached more and more diverse communities, it eventually spread to the film industry. CGI movie teams are now starting to see game engines as a way to get real-time high-level graphics, so Unity had to offer tools to create photorealistic renders inside the engine. Hence, the HDRP!

You might have already seen what the HDRP is capable of if you’ve watched Unity’s famous Unity short films, or if you’ve tried out the HDRP sample scene template – here is a screenshot from this hyper-realistic scene: