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Published in Jul 2023

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ISBN-13 9781837636747

Length 492 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Unity

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Game Optimization

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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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21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Some Quick Refreshers on Shaders in Unity

Going further

If you’re curious about the fundamentals of writing URP shaders, here are a few interesting resources to check out or continue your journey with:

URP official documentation: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@10.10/manual/index.html
Official GitHub repository of the URP library: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Graphics/blob/master/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal
Universal Render Pipeline in Unity 2019 – Overview & Tutorial, Unity (2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6YqTrwjpP0
Evolving game graphics with the Universal Render Pipeline | Unite Now 2020, Unity (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvl9rCVbMas
Unity Basics - Shader Code in URP, D. Ilett (2021): https://danielilett.com/2021-04-02-basics-3-shaders-in-urp/
Writing Shader Code in Universal RP (v2), Cyanilux (2021): https://www.cyanilux.com/tutorials/urp-shader-code/

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