ShaderQuest (Harry Alisavakis)
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ShaderQuest is Harry Alisavakis's sequenced shader tutorial series on halisavakis.com, indexed as a category with Parts 0-6 from early 2021. It targets game developers building foundational shader literacy before specific effects.
Installments cover graphics primitives, shader roles in a pipeline, Unity and UE4 material setup, HLSL and CG syntax, color behavior, and shaping functions with Shadertoy embeds. Examples use Unity built-in and URP, including Shader Graph with handwritten shaders; Part 0 outlines a longer topic roadmap.
Unity 2020.2 is suggested for follow-along work, with GitHub sample projects for built-in and URP as coding lessons deepen. Tutorial code is CC0; posts are free online with patron credits on entries.
The series complements Alisavakis's effect-focused My take on shaders posts and appears in community shader indexes such as the Cyanilux resources gist.
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