Tag: HLSL
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Arrays & shaders: heatmaps in Unity
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This tutorial explains how to pass arrays to shaders in Unity. This feature has been present for a long time, but is mostly undocumented. Unity 5.4.0 Beta 1 will introduce a proper API to pass arrays to shaders; this technique however will work with any previous version. If you are using Unity 5.4+, please refer to the Arrays & Shaders…
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Vertex and fragment shaders in Unity3D
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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, [download the Unity3D package] The previous three posts of this tutorial have introduced surface shaders and how they can be used to specify physical properties (such as albedo, gloss and specular reflections) of the materials we want to model. The other type of shader available in Unity3D…
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A gentle introduction to shaders in Unity3D
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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.…