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(lexdev.net) is an independent Unity shader and rendering tutorial site organized around game-inspired case studies and short basics articles.
Featured walkthroughs include a Frostpunk heatmap with compute shaders, shader variants, and deferred shading; Civilization VI fog of war; Gears Hammer of Dawn; Overwatch-style shields; and UI background blur. Unity template projects ship on GitHub under the MIT license.
Readers should be intermediate-level with Unity scenes, HLSL, and light C# setup. Some posts recommend simpler case studies before compute-heavy workflows.
Articles combine effect analysis with step-by-step implementation and are free to read online. GitHub, Patreon, and Discord links cover project files and feedback.
LexdevTutorials on GitHub hosts Unity shader projects with modest stars, and the site appears in practitioner lists such as the Cyanilux resources gist.
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