- 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><about><access><free><long><look><related><shader> - BruteForceGame
Matthieu Houllier's Brute Force studio blog documenting Crumble, a Unity physics platformer released on Steam in late 2020.
Devlogs walk through shipped shaders: shell grass ben
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· <shaders><intermediate><coverage><free><long><look><public><rather> - 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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· <shaders><about><access><free><look><public><rather><related> - 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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· <general><intermediate><free><page><rather><related><shader><short> - GDC/ADDON 2022: How (not) to create Textures for VFX (Simon Trümpler / Simonschreibt)
Simon Trümpler's Simonschreibt page hosts his GDC 2022 Visual Effects Summit talk and an ADDON 2022 revision on VFX textures.
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· <general><intermediate><access><channel><free><related><shader><talk> - 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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· <shaders><intermediate><access><free><look><related><shader><two> - Shader Graph Baked Rigidbody Animation using Vertex Animation Textures (Vadim, Sept 2019)
Kaburgan's Sept 2019 Story Programming piece bakes rigidbody VAT in Unity 2019.2 LWRP Shader Graph 6.9 without external DCC tools.
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· <shaders><intermediate><about><access><free><related><shader><single> - ShaderQuest (Harry Alisavakis)
ShaderQuest is Harry Alisavakis's sequenced shader tutorial series on halisavakis.com, indexed as a category with Parts 0-6 from early 2021.
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· <shaders><intermediate><access><free><related><shader><short><subjects> - Youtube > Makin' Stuff Look Good in Unity
YouTube channel “Makin’ Stuff Look Good in Unity” (UCEklP9iLcpExB8vp_fWQseg) publishes stylized rendering breakdowns - particles, trails, shaders, and URP/HDRP tips for indie polis
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· <shaders><intermediate><video><access><channel><free><look><shader> - Vulkan Ecosystem and SDK Survey - February 2026
Vulkan Ecosystem and SDK Survey - February 2026 is a SurveyMonkey collector link whose listing title identifies it as a February 2026 Vulkan ecosystem and SDK survey.
The page…
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