- The nature of the pixel
The article argues that many issues blamed on lighting or materials actually come from evaluating shaders at pixel centers on a fixed grid.
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· <shaders><blog><distance><motion><pixel><raymarching><shimmer><stability> - Water Shader Breakdown (Cyanilux)
Water Shader Breakdown on cyanilux.com is a free Unity URP Shader Graph tutorial by Cyanilux (updated 2023).
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· <shaders><blog><camera><color><depth><free><renders><screenshots> - 5 ways to draw an outline (Alexander Ameye)
Five Ways to Draw an Outline is Alexander Ameye's 2021 note (alexanderameye.github.io / ameye.dev).
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· <shaders><blog><article><artists><free><like><multiple><programmers> - A gentle introduction to shaders (Alan Zucconi)
Alan Zucconi's A gentle introduction to shaders in Unity3D (June 2015) is part one of his Gentle Introduction series on alanzucconi.com, aimed at Unity developers new to GPU programs.
It connects vertices, materials, and shaders in Unity's pipeline, covering ShaderLab Properties and SubShader layout, inspector uniforms, Queue tags, ZTest, and the surface-versus-vertex/fragment split for lighting versus effects.
Little prior shader knowledge is assumed; fixed-function shaders are skipped as obsolete.
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· <shaders><blog><article><artists><free><look><programmers><related> - A Look at Spyro's Portals - Rendering the Background
Daniel Pokladek's November 2020 post begins a Unity series on Spyro Reignited portal shaders, focusing on the background visible through the opening while later installments cover
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· <blog><art><article><artists><first><free><like><look> - Alexander Ameye
's blog at ameye.dev (alexanderameye.github.io) is a static Eleventy site documenting Unity graphics engineering experiments.
Sixteen indexed notes explain URP scriptable render passes, Shader Graph stylized water, realtime caustics, cavity and halftone effects, hemisphere sampling, holographic cards, and several outline methods.
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· <shaders><blog><art><article><artists><free><programmers><related> - Blending Meshes into Terrain (Inresin)
Louis Waloschek's April 2020 Inresin tutorial blends static meshes into Unity Terrain using baked depth masks and Amplify surface shaders.
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· <code><shaders><advanced><blog><article><artists><aware><covers> - Blur Renderer Feature Example/Template for URP / Unity 2021.2 (Alexander Ameye)
Custom Render Passes in Unity is Alexander Ameye's July 2021 ameye.dev note on URP ScriptableRendererFeature and ScriptableRenderPass boilerplate, heavily commented where Unity SRP documentation still feels sparse.
The sample applies a two-pass box blur: blit camera color to a temporary buffer, blur vertically then horizontally, with adjustable strength and downsampling.
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· <code><shaders><blog><article><artists><free><programmers><related> - Froyok
Léna Piquet's technical-art blog at froyok.fr/articles.html, where she shares years of real-time rendering notes alongside her Adobe Substance 3D Painter work.
Coverage centers on Unreal Engine 4: custom bloom and lens-flare post-processes, distance-field textures, portals, render-target UI, and selective engine-source changes.
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· <blog><art><article><artists><free><like><programmers><related> - Harry Alisavakis
ShaderQuest walks from 3D mesh concepts through ShaderLab, URP and built-in pipeline examples, syntax, colors, and shaping functions, with updating GitHub sample projects.
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· <shaders><blog><art><article><artists><free><programmers><related> - Inigo Quilez
's site is the written-tutorial archive for graphics, maths, fractals, and demoscene work, with links to videos, Shadertoy shaders, and utilities.
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· <shaders><advanced><blog><art><article><artists><free><programmers> - Marching Squares/Cubes (BorisTheBrave)
First article in Boris The Brave's free meshing series (Adam Newgas) on boristhebrave.com.
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· <blog><article><artists><free><marching><minecraft><programmers><related> - Shader Viewer (URP) (Xibanya)
Xibanya's URP Shader Viewer is a free browser utility for Universal Render Pipeline shaders and HLSL includes, with syntax coloring and definition links.
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· <shaders><blog><article><artists><color><free><programmers><related> - TextureLab
Lets artists iterate on albedo/height-style maps outside DCC apps, then import into Unity, Unreal, or Godot.
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· <artists><first><follow><free><like><programmers><related><technical> - A silly diffuse shading model
A silly diffuse shading model is a December 2025 post on the lisyarus graphics blog about a one-liner alternative to classic Lambertian diffuse for tech demos and early…
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· <shaders><blog><article><demos><free><intermediate><programmers><screenshots> - An Experimental Approach to printf in HLSL
An Experimental Approach to printf in HLSL is a December 2025 technical post by Chris Bieneman describing a holiday prototype for GPU-side printf in HLSL.
It covers GPU string…
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· <code><shaders><advanced><blog><approach><article><covers><engineers> - Early-bird deadline for the Shading Languages Symposium 2026
Early-bird deadline for the Shading Languages Symposium 2026 points to the Khronos Group page for the in-person symposium held 12-13 February 2026 in San Diego, right after…
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· <code><shaders><artists><covers><february><follow><page><person> - SIGGRAPH 2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Fast as Hell: idTech8 Global Illumination
[video] SIGGRAPH 2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: Fast as Hell: idTech8 Global Illumination is a YouTube recording of Tiago Sousa's Advances talk on idTech8 global…
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· <code><shaders><advanced><contrasts><engineers><free><stable><useful> - Getting started with BGFX
[video] Getting started with BGFX is a YouTube playlist by Game Coder Nz that walks through the bgfx cross-platform rendering library from a blank project to basic 3D and UI…
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· <code><shaders><buffers><color><depth><free><intermediate><programmers> - Painting Holes in Terrain - Terrain Shaders - Episode 10
[video] Painting Holes in Terrain - Terrain Shaders - Episode 10 is a Ben Cloward tutorial on enabling terrain hole painting in custom Unreal landscape materials and Unity Shader…
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