Building Quality Shaders for Unity®: Using Shader Graphs and HLSL Shaders

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D. IlettBuilding Quality Shaders for Unity®https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8652-4_12

12. Advanced Shaders

Daniel Ilett¹  

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Coventry, UK

 

So far, we have primarily discussed vertex and fragment shaders that take meshes, transform their vertices onto the screen, and color the pixels. Most shaders take this form. We’ve already seen the power of these types of shaders and the broad range of capabilities they have, but they are not the only types of shaders. In the shader pipeline, there are two optional stages that we have not yet encountered: the tessellation shader and the geometry shader. On top of that, there are compute shaders, which operate outside ...