- 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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· <blog><alpha><based><clouds><free><helps><moving><shader> - Believable Caustics Reflections (Alan Zucconi)
Believable Caustics Reflections is Alan Zucconi's September 2019 Unity blog post on faking pool-style ripple caustics without ray tracing, sparked by Florian Gelzenleuchter's popular shader GIF.
One tileable texture is sampled twice in a Surface shader at different scales and scroll speeds, combined with min(), then tinted onto albedo with slight RGB UV offsets for dispersion.
The walkthrough covers _ST tiling, _Time animation, HDR albedo above 1.0, and Post Processing Stack v2 bloom.
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· <blog><article><few><free><point><post><programmers><shader> - 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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· <code><advanced><blog><approach><article><based><compute><covers> - Freya Holmér's Math Visualizations
Topics include dot and cross products, lerp, radians, Bézier curves, point-in-triangle tests, curvature, Voronoi tessellation, and trochoidal waves - each clip emphasizes motion over notation.
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· <blog><article><dense><engine><free><helps><many><shader> - Joyrok
Tech Art Chronicles on joyrok.com walk Unreal materials or UMG and Unity Shader Graph in parallel, mapping Photoshop-style layers and masks into node graphs.
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· <blog><alpha><article><based><engine><familiarity><free><shader> - Partial Derivatives (ddx, ddy, fwidth) (Ronja)
Ronja’s tutorial 046 demystifies HLSL partial derivatives: ddx and ddy measure how a value changes across 2×2 pixel quads, and fwidth combines them for screen-space-aware filtering.
Demonstrates greyscale debug views, then builds an anti-aliased step (aaStep) that widens cutoffs by one pixel’s gradient - reducing jaggy fire, toon bands, and procedural edges versus raw step().
Includes a scrolling noise fire shader comparing step, aaStep, and smoothstep.
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· <blog><article><free><function><gpu><pixels><point><programmers> - Physically Based Rendering
Alex Tardif’s Physically Based Rendering page is a practitioner-oriented explainer of energy-conserving shading terms - diffuse, specular, Fresnel, and microfacet models - for real
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· <blog><article><based><engine><free><function><post><programmers> - Shaders Done Quick - Stylized Water (Alexander Ameye)
Alexander Ameye's "Shaders Done Quick" page collects three shader notes from early 2020, each meant to be a quick, dense tutorial you can read in about a minute.
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· <blog><article><dense><few><free><point><programmers><shader> - GPU view-adaptive crack-free subdivision of Bézier surfaces
AMD GPUOpen article summarizing a Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2026 paper on view-adaptive, crack-free subdivision of bicubic Bézier patches with GPU work graphs.
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· <code><advanced><blog><approach><article><comparing><free><gpu> - Stylized GGX shading — toon specular highlights
Technical blog post by Alexandre Lamure on stylized GGX shading that mixes toon-like specular highlights with physically based GGX.
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· <blog><based><post><programmers><references><shader><simple><useful> - Higher GPU occupancy via timeline semaphores (Vulkan)
r/GraphicsProgramming write-up on replacing binary semaphores and heavy fencing with an implicit Vulkan framegraph driven by timeline semaphores keyed to resources.
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· <code><optimization><advanced><blog><covers><engine><fps><gains> - Adaptive Catmull-Clark Subdivision with Compute Tessellation
Filmic Worlds post by John Hable on adaptive Catmull-Clark subdivision for real-time rendering using compute tessellation instead of hardware tessellation alone.
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· <code><advanced><blog><compute><covers><fixed><hardware><post> - Warp-Level Culling for Efficient Blending in 3D Gaussian Splatting
Conference talk by Kenneth Yang on speeding up alpha-over blending in 3D Gaussian Splatting without changing the rendered image.
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· <code><optimization><advanced><alpha><covers><fps><gains><measured> - Benchmarking GPU pipeline stages
The work measures isolated rendering pipeline stages with a custom Unity 6000.2.9 engine loop, custom render pipeline, DX12, and the DXC shader compiler instead of profiling a full production scene.
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