Patrons This tutorial post is brought to you by: erich binder Djinnlord Introduction For quite a long time I wanted to do something like SSS for some neat effects, and I had this shader ready for some time too. However, it’s needless to say that I feel weird covering this subject in a tutorial. Mostly …
Patrons This shader tutorial post was brought to you by: Erich Binder, Minh Triết Đỗ Introduction I was quite surprised to see that while I had a tutorial on grab pass shaders and on UV distortion, I didn’t actually have a tutorial on grab pass distortion. And I probably should have one, cause it’s a …
Patrons This shader tutorial post was brought to you by: Erich Binder Introduction Hello and welcome to the third and possibly final (major) part of the VFX Master Shader tutorial! In the first and second part we covered the majority of the most common effects of the master shader, but we focused on the opaque …
Introduction Welcome to the second part of the VFX Master Shader tutorial! In this part, we’ll add more features to the “VFX Apprentice Shader”, to actually upgrade it to the status of “Master”. The second part is still focusing on the opaque version of the shader, and while I’ll include the shader code for the …
As some of you might have noticed, I recently dove into the interesting field of VFX, as it felt like it combined my love for shaders (and technical art in general) with an artistic process which has a lot of impact on the aesthetics of a game as well as its feel and gameplay. While …
As I mentioned in the previous post, there is a third part to the parallax effect series. However, I decided not to call this post “Parallax Effects (Part III)”, because this effect is widely known with its own name: Interior Mapping. It’s an effect that’s been utilized for many years, to give the impression of …
Welcome to the second part of the tutorial on Parallax effects! Now, initially I intended for this tutorial to only have two parts, with which I so naively open on the previous post. However, there’s probably going to be a third part on the series, the subject of which I won’t reveal now, for some …
This two-part tutorial is revolved around the “parallax” effect, which is basically the process of faking depth by performing some magic math on the view direction of the camera. It’s an effect that Unity’s standard shader has enabled by default and is activated by using the height texture field in the material inspector. In this, …
Recently I came across this wonderful tip by Mike Black about making signed distance fields as icons for decals to get crisper results without increasing the size of your sprites: I really enjoyed the simplicity of the process and it made me want to use the concept in Unity as well. The motive for me, …
I was having trouble for a while coming up with an interesting enough shader topic for this blog post, and then Ronja (whose tutorials you should absolutely check out btw) suggested a neat thing with which I had some experience: Color grading with Look-up textures (hereafter mentioned as LUTs). I had to implement a custom …