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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21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Some Quick Refreshers on Shaders in Unity

Going further

If you’re curious about URP shader code and making your own SRP, the following are a few interesting resources to check out or continue your journey from.

Shader code optimization

Official documentation on the URP shading models, Unity: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@10.2/manual/shading-model.html
Optimizing shader runtime performance (official documentation), Unity: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SL-ShaderPerformance.html
7 Ways to Optimize your Unity Project with URP, Unity (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFBr21V0zvU

Custom SRPs

Official documentation on custom SRPs, Unity: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/srp-custom.html
Custom Pipeline – Taking Control of Rendering, Catlike Coding (2019): https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/scriptable-render-pipeline/custom-pipeline/
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