Beginner's Guide to Unity Shader Graph: Create Immersive Game Worlds Using Unity’s Shader Tool

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Á. AldaBeginner's Guide to Unity Shader Graphhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9672-1_3

3. Commonly Used Nodes

Álvaro Alda¹  

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Guadalajara, Spain

 

Shader Graph offers myriad nodes with which to create great shader effects. There are more than 200 nodes in the latest version of Shader Graph, but we will only study the ones that will help us in the projects in this book. Feel free to check out all the nodes in the Unity Manual page¹ dedicated to Shader Graph. Nodes are classified by their type of use and the nature of the calculations they perform, as follows:

• Artistic: These are nodes related to colors and mask representations.

• Channel: These ones are related ...