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Unity 2018 Shaders and Effects Cookbook - Third Edition
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Unity 2018 Shaders and Effects Cookbook - Third Edition

by John P. Doran, Alan Zucconi
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
8h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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As mentioned previously, there are a few aspects that we need to take care of while using a Transparent Shader:

  1. Remove the _Glossiness and _Metallic variables from the Properties and SubShader sections of the code as they aren't needed for this example.
  2. In the SubShader{} section of the shader, modify the Tags section to the following so that we can signal that the shader is transparent:
Tags 
{ 
  "Queue" = "Transparent" 
  "IgnoreProjector" = "True" 
  "RenderType" = "Transparent" 
} 

Tags are used by the SubShader to know how and when items should be rendered. Similar to the dictionary type, tags are key-value pairs where the left-hand side is the tag name and the right-hand side is the value you wish for it to be set to.

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