- Stateless particles - rendering without a mesh
The GPU supplies only SV_VertexID and SV_InstanceID, and the vertex shader fabricates positions, UVs, and normals for each quad or triangle strip.
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· <shaders><draw><gpu><instance><instancing><lighting><pipeline><procedural> - 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><advanced><also><forward><free><pipeline><programmers> - Intro to the Shader Pipeline (Cyanilux)
Introductory Cyanilux blog post on Unity meshes, shader stages, render pipelines, materials, C# property setup, batching, and forward versus deferred paths.
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· <code><shaders><data><forward><free><materials><pipeline><shader> - 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><also><entities><free><gpu><pipelines> - 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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· <shaders><about><access><free><pipelines><programmers><shader><topics> - Blending Meshes into Terrain (Inresin)
Louis Waloschek's April 2020 Inresin tutorial blends static meshes into Unity Terrain using baked depth masks and Amplify surface shaders.
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· <code><shaders><advanced><access><covers><free><pipelines><programmers> - 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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· <code><shaders><about><access><also><free><pipeline><pipelines> - 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><constraints><forward><free><intermediate><lighting><pipeline><production> - How We Draw a 3D Sprite World: The Stylized Art of Never's End
GDC Vault talk by Ryan Juckett (Hypersect) on rendering Never's End as a hand-drawn 2D pixel-art look from fully 3D assets.
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· <code><shaders><talk><draw><dynamic><engine><lighting><materials> - Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem
Written companion to Claire Blackshaw’s Develop Brighton 2026 talk on shipping commercial VR in Godot and the community PS5/PSVR2 port work.
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· <code><console><covers><engine><lessons><shipping><talk><toward> - Integrated Insights: Automating Performance Capture in Unreal Projects (Unreal Fest Orlando 2025)
Unreal Fest Orlando 2025 session on automating and standardizing performance capture for comparable traces across a project.
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· <advanced><talk><cpu><gpu><interactive><pipeline><production><programmers> - The Real-Time Volumetric Cloudscapes of Horizon Zero Dawn
SIGGRAPH 2015 slide deck on Guerrilla Games' Nubis volumetric cloud system for Horizon Zero Dawn, covering ray-marched modeling, lighting, and GPU optimizations.
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· <shaders><advanced><talk><free><gpu><lighting><procedural><slides> - Memory Management, Explained Simply (Part 1)
First video in a four-part series on computer memory management.
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· <code><programmers><space><static><systems><topics><video> - Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan
Builds a modern Vulkan rendering engine (Raptor/Hydra) covering bindless resources, frame graphs, clustered deferred, mesh shaders, VRS, TAA, and RT effects.
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· <code><shaders><advanced><architecture><pipelines><production><systems><topics> - Catlike Coding
Jasper Flick's long-running Unity and Godot tutorials, including the Rendering series on pipelines, lighting, and shader techniques.
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· <code><shaders><forward><lighting><pipeline><procedural> - The Danger Zone - MJP Blog
Matt Pettineau's long-running graphics blog on D3D12 barriers, GPU-driven rendering, subsurface scattering, MSAA/signal processing, weighted blended OIT, and shader permutation…
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· <shaders><advanced><console><engine><many><permutation><production> - Graphics Programming Conference
International conference for real-time and interactive graphics programming, held in Breda.
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· <architecture><interactive><production><shaders><shipping> - Jendrik Illner - Graphics Programming Article Database
Searchable index of graphics programming articles aggregated from Jendrik Illner's weekly newsletter issues on jendrikillner.com.
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· <architecture><conference><free><gpu><topics> - How is this frame of Animal Well rendered?
RenderDoc frame breakdown of how Animal Well draws a single frame in its custom engine.
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· <code><shaders><draw><engine><lighting><war> - Interactive Computer Graphics (YouTube Lecture Series)
Full university course lectures on interactive/real-time rendering - OpenGL, GLSL, textures, shadows, geometry/tessellation/compute shaders, and GPU ray tracing.
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· <geometry><interactive><lighting><pipeline><youtube>