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

Stepping up with the URP render pipeline

The URP is one of the two new SRP templates. It is meant to be highly customizable via a gallery of tools, scalable to ensure your projects are cross-platform between mobiles and desktops, and all-around a more optimized rendering solution than the built-in render pipeline. However, it is not installed by default in all your Unity projects, and we need a few preliminary steps to get a project URP-ready.

So, in the following sections, we will discuss how URP helps foster creativity and support multiple platforms. Then, we will examine the new node-based visual editors it offers, and finally, we will have a look at how to get and set up the URP in a project (both a new and an existing one).

A powerful pipeline for all creators

The URP is gradually becoming the standard for most Unity projects because of its wide variety of applications, its ease of use, and its scalability. Initially called the Light-Weight Render Pipeline (LWRP), it...