- 2D Water Shader Breakdown (Cyanilux)
A Shader Graph breakdown of stylized 2D water in Unity URP: sprite reflections via a second camera, scrolling noise distortion, fake highlights, and tilemap shoreline ripples for pixel art.
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· <shaders><intermediate><blog><free><full><noise><reflection><reflections> - Cloud Shader Breakdown (Cyanilux)
Cyanilux Shader Graph tutorial for URP that builds animated cloud decks on a subdivided plane with layered world-space noise, vertex displacement, and depth-based fading at intersections.
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· <shaders><intermediate><blog><based><free><full><game><noise> - Crystal Shader Breakdown (Cyanilux)
A Cyanilux Shader Graph walkthrough for Unity URP that builds an unlit transparent crystal with object-space Y colour gradients, camera opaque-texture refraction, Fresnel opacity, and HDR glow for bloom.
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· <shaders><intermediate><blog><based><free><full><includes><post> - Custom Renderer Features (Cyanilux)
Long-form Cyanilux guide to URP ScriptableRendererFeature and ScriptableRenderPass code: example effects, RTHandle setup, blit paths, and Unity 6 Render Graph notes.
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· <code><shaders><blog><free><full><notes><objects><programmers> - Depth (Cyanilux)
Long-form Cyanilux tutorial on Unity depth spaces, Z buffers, Scene Depth sampling, SV_Depth, and world-position reconstruction in URP and HDRP.
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· <code><shaders><blog><free><full><includes><post><sampling> - Dissolve Shader Breakdown (Cyanilux)
URP Shader Graph breakdown by Cyanilux on dissolve effects: Step and noise clip fragments with glowing edges, height-axis variants, and view-space UVs to reduce seam artifacts.
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· <shaders><intermediate><blog><based><free><full><noise><post> - Fire/Flame Shader Breakdown (Cyanilux)
Shader Graph breakdown of billboard fire on a quad: scrolling noise warps UVs for a flame texture or procedurally generated ellipse shapes, with per-instance randomization.
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· <shaders><intermediate><blog><back><free><full><noise><objects> - Fog Plane Shader Breakdown (Cyanilux)
Shader Graph tutorial for unlit fog planes on quads that sample scene depth for vertical fog and doorway fades, with simple and accurate reconstruction paths in Unity URP.
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· <shaders><intermediate><blog><based><cases><free><full><includes> - Hologram Shader Breakdown (Cyanilux)
A Shader Graph breakdown for Unity URP holograms: world-space scanlines from sine or frac, Fresnel rim, HDR additive tinting, plus optional UV distortion and glitch for quads.
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· <shaders><intermediate><blog><based><blending><free><full><screenshots> - Intro to Shader Graph (Cyanilux)
Long-form Cyanilux primer on Unity Shader Graph: package and URP/HDRP setup, graph templates, the node editor, data types, previews, properties, keywords, and sub-graphs.
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· <shaders><blog><based><free><full><high><pipelines><post> - Polar Coordinates (Cyanilux)
Cyanilux's Polar Coordinates (May 2019, updated Dec 2023) is a Shader Graph article on converting Cartesian UVs to polar space with the Polar Coordinates node.
It explains Center, Radial Scale, and Length Scale, quotes the generated Unity HLSL, and uses Split so R is distance from center and G is angle from the downward reference (with notes on negative preview values).
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· <shaders><blog><cases><free><full><post><screenshots><shader> - Snowglobe Breakdown (Cyanilux)
Snowglobe Breakdown is a January 2023 Cyanilux post building a Unity 2021.3 LTS URP snowglobe with VFX Graph snow, Shader Graph lit particles, and a glass refraction shader.
VFX uses burst spawn, gravity, turbulence, and inverted Collide with Sphere.
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· <shaders><intermediate><blog><convincing><free><full><looks><reflection> - Soft Foliage Shader Breakdown (Cyanilux)
Soft Foliage Shader Breakdown is a March 2021 Cyanilux post documenting soft-shaded foliage for Unity URP Shader Graph, with full notes beyond the original Twitter demo.
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· <shaders><intermediate><blog><free><full><normals><post><screenshots> - Ultraviolet Lights & Invisible Ink (Cyanilux)
Ultraviolet Lights & Invisible Ink (Dec 2023) is a Cyanilux blog tutorial on gpu-side hidden decals in Unity URP, inspired by UV fingerprint hunts and lens-of-truth style puzzles.
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· <shaders><intermediate><blog><based><free><full><objects><path> - Writing Shader Code in Universal RP (v2) (Cyanilux)
Writing Shader Code in Universal RP (v2) is Cyanilux's ShaderLab and HLSL guide for Unity URP (2021, updated 2022).
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· <code><shaders><blog><free><full><objects><render><screenshots> - 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><intermediate><blog><article><free><january><pipelines><programmers> - Marching Squares/Cubes (BorisTheBrave)
First article in Boris The Brave's free meshing series (Adam Newgas) on boristhebrave.com.
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· <intermediate><blog><article><block><cases><free><pipelines><programmers> - Part 2, Coloring Light as it passes through Stained Glass
Valerio Marty’s Medium follow-up extends his Unity volumetric light raymarch with stained-glass tinting via nested world-space rays and a custom depth buffer for non-shadow-casting glass.
Each lit march step casts toward the sun, stepping through screen-space UVs to read a ScriptableRendererFeature depth pass (R8 linear camera distance).
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· <code><shaders><intermediate><blog><article><free><light><pipelines> - Patreon > Team Dogpit (aka Xibanya)
Team Dogpit (Xibanya) publishes “Shaders For People Who Don’t Know How To Shader,” a Patreon-first series that assumes no prior Unity or programming background.
Each lesson introduces one skill - colors, normal maps, rim light, deferred buffers, SDFs, raymarching - then walks through a complete shader.
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· <shaders><intermediate><blog><article><based><free><full><indie> - Rendering Line Lights
Eric López’s article derives analytic shading for elongated line lights - treating luminous segments instead of point or area disks - in real-time renderers.
Covers integration against BRDFs, energy considerations, and implementation notes useful for neon tubes, LED strips, and stylized fixtures.
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