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_4

4. Shader Graph

Daniel Ilett¹  

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Coventry, UK

 

Shader programming is at a somewhat strange crossing of disciplines. Obviously, since there is code involved, you need some amount of programming ability, but many people who write shaders bring their programming experience from other languages rather than learning shaders from scratch as their first language. If you are only interested in writing shaders, then there are many concepts you may need to learn from scratch, which increase the barrier to entry. If you’re an artist wishing to write shaders, but you have no programming ...