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

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Unity

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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 the basics of Unity shader coding (in particular, using the legacy pipeline and the Cg language) or about the Blinn-Phong model, here are a few interesting resources to check out or continue your journey from:

Unity legacy shaders:
- Unity 5.x Shaders and Effects Cookbook, A. Zucconi (2016): https://www.packtpub.com/product/unity-5x-shaders-and-effects-cookbook/9781785285240
- Unity 2021 Shaders and Effects Cookbook - Fourth Edition, J. P. Doran (2021): https://www.packtpub.com/product/unity-2021-shaders-and-effects-cookbook-fourth-edition/9781839218620
- Writing shaders (official documentation), Unity: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/shader-writing.html
- Unofficial repository with Unity’s built-in shaders (per Unity version), TwoTailsGames (2017-2020): https://github.com/TwoTailsGames/Unity-Built-in-Shaders
The Blinn-Phong model:
- Basic Lighting, J. de Vries (2014 –): https://learnopengl.com/Lighting/Basic-Lighting
- Advanced Lighting, J. de Vries (2014 –): https://learnopengl.com/Advanced-Lighting/Advanced-Lighting

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