Category: Shaders

Physically Based Rendering and lighting models in Unity3D

Jun 24, 2015

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, [download the Unity3D package] Why is it colder at the poles and hotter on the equator? This question, which seems completely unrelated to shaders, is actually fundamental to understand how lighting models work. As explained in the previous part of this tutorial, surface shaders use a mathematical model…
Surface shaders in Unity3D

Jun 17, 2015

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 This is the second part of a series of posts on Unity3D shaders, and it will focus on surface shaders. As previously mentioned, shaders are special programs written in a language called Cg / HLSL which is executed by GPUs. They are used to draw triangles of your 3D…
A gentle introduction to shaders in Unity3D

Jun 10, 2015

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 We can safely say that Unity3D has made game development easier for a lot of people. Something where it still has a long way to go is, with no doubt, shader coding. Often surrounded by mystery, a shader is a program specifically made to run on a GPU.…
Fur shading in Unity3D

Jun 28, 2015

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Volumetric Rendering: Volume Raycasting

Jul 1, 2016

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Volumetric Rendering: Hard & Soft Shadows

Jul 1, 2016

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Volumetric Rendering: Ambient Occlusion

Jul 1, 2016

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This tutorial continues our journey into the fascinating subject of volumetric rendering. This time, we will cover how to simulate ambient occlusion. You can find here all the other posts in this series: The full Unity package is available at the end of this article. 📦
Iridescence on Mobile

Jul 21, 2017

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An Introduction to Mie Theory

Jul 30, 2020

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in Maths, Shaders, Tutorial, Unity

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