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  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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• 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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• Blending Meshes into Terrain (Inresin)

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• 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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  Daniel Pokladek's January 2021 blog post builds a Unity cracked-ice material with parallax crack planes under a tinted surface, extending Binary Impact's Shader Graph ice tutorial toward Dragon Age: Inquisition-style stacked cracks, not one repeating layer. Shader Graph work uses three parallax slices, surface offset, normal UV distortion, grayscale albedo tinting, and RGB-packed crack maps.

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• Creating a Volumetric Ray Marcher

  The post builds a march loop along the camera ray inside a mesh volume, sampling tiled 2D slice atlases as pseudo-3D density, accumulating opacity, and clipping to a bounding box while supporting o…

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  Federico Bellucci's May 2022 Febucci article covers custom post-processing in Unity URP on Unity 2021.x (URP 12.1.5), when volume-backed custom effects lacked clear docs.

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• Cyanilux

  (cyanilux.com) is Cyan's personal site for free Unity shader tutorials, organized into long-form Posts and effect-focused Breakdowns with expandable screenshots. Posts explain Shader Graph basics, depth, vertex displacement, custom URP renderer features, and render passes.

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• Daniel Illet

  Daniel Ilett's danielilett.com blog centers on Unity shaders and technical art.

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• Deferred Shading (CatlikeCoding)

  Rendering 13 on Catlike Coding is Jasper Flick's chapter on Unity deferred shading, part of the Built-in RP Rendering series (Unity 5.5).

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• Drawing Thousands of Meshes with DrawMeshInstanced / Indirect (Toqoz)

  Toqoz's November 2019 toqoz.fyi post walks through drawing very large mesh counts in Unity with Graphics.DrawMeshInstanced and Graphics.DrawMeshInstancedIndirect, with C# samples,

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• Easing Functions

  Easings.net is a free interactive cheat sheet by Andrey Sitnik and Ivan Solovev for choosing easing functions that control how a parameter changes over normalized animation time. The catalog lists quad, cubic, quart, quint, exponential, circular, elastic, and bounce curves in ease-in, ease-out, and ease-in-out forms.

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