- Game Performance Optimization (Ben Cloward playlist)
YouTube playlist on game optimization for Unity and Unreal: budgets, CPU versus GPU triage, PIX analysis, and draw-call or shader tuning.
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· <shaders><intermediate><video><cloward><artists><engines><episodes><shared> - 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><free><graph><graphs><shader><textures><uvs> - Book (w/ Turnable Pages) Breakdown (Cyanilux)
Cyanilux breakdown of a URP spellbook with vertex-shader page turns, flipbook page textures, dual Lit Graphs, pooling C# driver, and optional Blender setup notes.
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· <shaders><intermediate><free><graph><graphs><material><shader><simple> - 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><color><free><graph><graphs><samples><shader> - 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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· <shaders><custom><free><graph><graphs><later><sample><shader> - 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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· <shaders><both><come><free><graph><graphs><shader><texture> - 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><free><graph><graphs><height><shader><uvs> - 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><free><graph><graphs><nodes><shader><texture> - 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><both><free><graph><graphs><shader><texture> - Forcefield Shader Breakdown (Simple) (Cyanilux)
Simplified URP Shader Graph forcefield: transparent unlit Fresnel rim glow, front-face alpha masking, and scene-depth intersection highlights without distortion or ripples.
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· <shaders><intermediate><color><free><graph><graphs><shader><simple> - Holofoil Card Shader Breakdown (Cyanilux)
Unity URP Shader Graph breakdown of stylized holofoil trading cards: tangent-space view distortion, rainbow sampling, region masks, stencil portal windows, and bloom notes.
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· <shaders><intermediate><free><graph><graphs><sample><shader><texture> - 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><blending><free><graph><graphs><nodes><shader> - Jellyfish Shader Breakdown (Cyanilux)
Cyanilux URP Shader Graph jellyfish: sine vertex displacement, Y masking, Fresnel tint, and C# tentacle counter-rotation when the body turns.
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· <shaders><intermediate><free><graph><graphs><shader><simple><useful> - Local UVs for Sprites in Sprite Sheet/Atlas (Cyanilux)
Unity shader techniques for per-sprite 0-1 UVs when sprites live in sheets or atlases: C# UV remap with Shader Graph/HLSL, plus URP object-space and renderer-bounds alternatives.
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· <shaders><intermediate><free><graph><graphs><shader><texture><uvs> - Portal Shader Breakdown (Cyanilux)
Portal Shader Breakdown (May 2019) is a Cyanilux Shader Graph walkthrough for a wormhole portal on a flat unlit quad.
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· <shaders><intermediate><free><graph><graphs><sample><shader><texture> - Rain Effects Breakdown (Cyanilux)
Rain Effects Breakdown (July 2023) is a Cyanilux walkthrough pairing Shuriken rain with Shader Graph ripples, puddles, and rain-on-surface shaders.
Particles use stretched billboards in a scaled box with URP or Built-in unlit materials; VFX Graph is noted for URP or HDRP.
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· <shaders><intermediate><free><graph><graphs><shader><simple><shadergraph> - Shoreline Shader Breakdown (Cyanilux)
Shoreline Shader Breakdown is a December 2024 Cyanilux post merging earlier shoreline water threads into one stylized coast tutorial for Unity URP Shader Graph.
It compares depth-texture versus UV shoreline meshes, then walks approaching wave lines, synced swash motion, Voronoi on the swash, and wet-sand darkening via low-alpha blending.
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· <shaders><intermediate><blending><free><graph><graphs><later><material> - 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><free><graph><graphs><normals><shader><texture> - Sprite Glow/Outline Shader Breakdown (Cyanilux)
Sprite Glow/Outline Shader Breakdown is a March 2020 Cyanilux article for URP Shader Graph on 2D sprites.
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· <shaders><intermediate><free><graph><graphs><normal><shader><texture> - Swapping Colours (Cyanilux)
Swapping Colours is a February 2023 Cyanilux post on recolouring textures and procedural inputs in Unity Shader Graph for 3D, sprites, UI, or signed-distance shapes.
Sections cover Tint, Lerp, channel-packed greys, mask textures, Replace Color, Blend modes, gradient ramps as textures, and palette index lookups.
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