Coding in Unity: Introduction to Shaders

Coding in Unity: Introduction to Shaders, available at $54.99, has an average rating of 4, with 60 lectures, 1 quizzes, based on 102 reviews, and has 813 subscribers.

You will learn about Program surface shaders – Unity's approach to making it easier to write lit shaders. Code lower level fragment and vertex shaders. Program post-processing images effects. Use your new knowledge to create your own, unique shaders and game feel. Understand Unity's ShaderLab and CG/HLSL. Write your own shaders for Unity's built-in Render Pipeline. Create your own custom lighting This course is ideal for individuals who are Intermediate level Unity developers who want to learn how to code their own shaders from scratch. or People with no shader coding experience. or This course is not for people new to Unity or C#. or This course is not for people wanting to learn Unity's Shader Graph. or People wanting to create their own shaders for Unity's built-in Render Pipeline. It is particularly useful for Intermediate level Unity developers who want to learn how to code their own shaders from scratch. or People with no shader coding experience. or This course is not for people new to Unity or C#. or This course is not for people wanting to learn Unity's Shader Graph. or People wanting to create their own shaders for Unity's built-in Render Pipeline.

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Summary

Title: Coding in Unity: Introduction to Shaders

Price: $54.99

Average Rating: 4

Number of Lectures: 60

Number of Quizzes: 1

Number of Published Lectures: 60

Number of Published Quizzes: 1

Number of Curriculum Items: 61

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 61

Original Price: £119.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Program surface shaders – Unity's approach to making it easier to write lit shaders.
Code lower level fragment and vertex shaders.
Program post-processing images effects.
Use your new knowledge to create your own, unique shaders and game feel.
Understand Unity's ShaderLab and CG/HLSL.
Write your own shaders for Unity's built-in Render Pipeline.
Create your own custom lighting

Who Should Attend

Intermediate level Unity developers who want to learn how to code their own shaders from scratch.
People with no shader coding experience.
This course is not for people new to Unity or C#.
This course is not for people wanting to learn Unity's Shader Graph.
People wanting to create their own shaders for Unity's built-in Render Pipeline.

Target Audiences

Intermediate level Unity developers who want to learn how to code their own shaders from scratch.
People with no shader coding experience.
This course is not for people new to Unity or C#.
This course is not for people wanting to learn Unity's Shader Graph.
People wanting to create their own shaders for Unity's built-in Render Pipeline.

Learn the basic concepts and language you will need to program your own shaders and image effects for Unity’s built-in render pipeline, for Unity 5 or above.

Learn and Understand Shaders with this Unity Course.

Learn about the different properties of a mesh that can be accessed and changed via a shader.
Write your own vertex and fragment, and surface shaders.
Create your own image effects.
Write custom lighting models.
Understand ShaderLab and CG/HLSL.

Make your game look unique using shaders.

In this course, you will learn the basics of programming shaders, from simple colour changes to whole screen image effects. We’ll go through the different types of shader, Unity’s quirks and in-built functions, and the different bits of code that make up a shader, before writing a full surface shader with a texture, normal map, metallic and emissive effects. We’ll also look at writing a custom inspector for your shader. Once we’ve covered these basics, we’ll look at creating an number of image effects, custom lighting models including cel shading, a sprite shader with a sway effect, and a dissolve effect.

A common criticism of Unity is that games made with the engine all have a similar look. Combat this by writing your own shaders rather than relying on Unity’s inbuilt ones – learn how to improve the look and feel of your game.

By the end of this course, you will understand the basics of shader coding and will be able to create your own shaders. Source code is included to help you on your way.

This course is designed for people who can already use Unity and can program in C#, but who have no previous experience of programming shaders.

I present examples of increasing difficulty for each type of shader (surface, vertex/fragment and image effect) designed to help you to understand howshaders work so that you can be confident in creating your own effects.

For extra support, you can ask questions in the Q&A section, and I’ve provided the completed code examples for download in each Section. You’ll receive a certificate of completion once you finish the course.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction to Meshes

Lecture 2: Vertex and Fragment Shaders

Lecture 3: Surface Shaders

Lecture 4: Image Effects

Lecture 5: Unity's In-built Shaders and HLSL Functions

Lecture 6: The Render Pipeline and Unity's Shader Graph

Chapter 2: Shader Outline

Lecture 1: Structure: Properties, Subshaders and Passes

Lecture 2: Pragma Directives

Lecture 3: Properties

Lecture 4: Tags

Lecture 5: Blender

Lecture 6: A Simple Surface Shader

Lecture 7: A Simple Vertex and Fragment Shader

Lecture 8: Coordinate Systems

Lecture 9: Unity's Lighting Models

Lecture 10: Ordering

Chapter 3: Full Surface Shader

Lecture 1: Adding a Texture

Lecture 2: Adding a Normal Map

Lecture 3: Adding Occlusion + Assignment

Lecture 4: Making it Metallic

Lecture 5: Making it Emissive + Assignment

Lecture 6: Emissive Custom Shader GUI

Chapter 4: Inverted Image Effect

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: Blit

Lecture 3: Culling and Depth Testing

Lecture 4: The Invert Shader

Lecture 5: The C# Blit Script

Chapter 5: Image Effects

Lecture 1: Fade to Black + Assignment

Lecture 2: Lerp Desmos Link

Lecture 3: Fade to Colour Using Lerp

Lecture 4: Desaturation + Assignment

Lecture 5: Parametric Equation Desmos Link

Lecture 6: Rolling Distortion: Using _Time and Parametric Equations

Lecture 7: Textured Distortion

Lecture 8: Chromatic Aberration + Assignment

Chapter 6: Custom Lighting Models

Lecture 1: The Dot Product

Lecture 2: A Simple Lambert Model

Lecture 3: Cel Shading

Lecture 4: Adding Lighting to a Vertex and Fragment Shader

Chapter 7: Swaying Plant Sprites

Lecture 1: A Static Sprite Shader

Lecture 2: Blend and Adding Transparency

Lecture 3: Step Desmos Link

Lecture 4: Step

Lecture 5: Adding the Vertex Function

Lecture 6: Non-Directional Lights

Lecture 7: Improving the Sway

Chapter 8: Dissolve Surface Shader

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: Clip

Lecture 3: Dissolve Texture

Lecture 4: Smoothstep Desmos Link

Lecture 5: Smoothstep

Lecture 6: Ramp Smoothstep Desmos Link

Lecture 7: Adding the Ramp

Lecture 8: The Ramp Contribution

Chapter 9: A Triplanar Shader

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: A Simple Triplanar Shader

Lecture 3: A Weighted Triplanar Shader

Lecture 4: Adding a Top Texture

Lecture 5: Improving With Noise + Assignment

Chapter 10: Bonus

Lecture 1: Bonus Lecture: My Other Courses

Instructors

Jenny Hide
Indie/Freelance Game Developer

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2 stars: 5 votes
3 stars: 15 votes
4 stars: 35 votes
5 stars: 42 votes

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