How To Use Every Node in Unity Shader Graph

An outstanding work that contains a description of 200+ nodes, most have a visual example.

https://danielilett.com/2021-05-20-every-shader-graph-node/

#shadergraph

Gentle introduction to shaders and custom materials in Unity

A dissection of shader structure and a simple custom shader sample

https://pavcreations.com/gentle-introduction-to-shaders-and-custom-materials-in-unity/

#shader

A Deep Dive into Unity Configurable Joints

https://medium.com/luna-labs-ltd/luna-tech-series-a-deep-dive-into-unity-configurable-joints-96c49138b9b7

#joint #physics

UniMod: Adds modding support to your Unity project

With mod scripting enabled, UniMod requires Mono, with only the following platforms being implemented right now: Windows, OSX and Linux, Android

https://github.com/katas94/UniMod

#modding

Asset Management Tools for Unity

List of Tools
- Scenes In Project (the star of this project)
- MultiRename Tool
- Search Duplicate Assets
- Search References Fast! (discontinued)
- Search Prefabs Components

https://github.com/NibbleByte/UnityAssetManagementTools

#editortool

A snow buildup effect with vertex offset

https://twitter.com/unitygames/status/1595084751521648649

#shader #snow

Unity Optimization Tips: Mobile & Desktop

https://makaka.org/unity-tutorials/optimization

#optimization #profiling

Automated Cleanup of Unity's Generated Shaders

The resulting code is around 20-25% smaller and a lot easier to read, which makes it better to work with and optimize. While it does shorten the code, the main improvement is that it becomes much easier to grok.

https://agentlien.github.io/cleanup/index.html

Repo: https://github.com/agentlien/ShaderCleanup

#shadergraph #optimization

Six methods for drawing grass with a range of use cases

Video: https://youtu.be/uHDmqfdVkak

Post: https://danielilett.com/2022-12-05-tut6-2-six-grass-techniques/

Repo: https://github.com/daniel-ilett/shaders-6grass

#grass #shader

Megacity Sample

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Megacity-Sample

#ecs #dots

Create spellbinding visual effects with our advanced VFX guide | Unity Blog

https://blog.unity.com/games/create-spellbinding-visual-effects-with-advanced-vfx-guide

#vfx #vfxgraph #book

Unity-Technologies/BackgroundDownload: Plugins for mobile platforms to enable file downloads in background

Use Background Download to download large files in the background on mobile platforms. It lets you fetch files that aren't required immediately while caring less about application lifecycle. Downloads will continue even if your application goes into background or the Operating System closes it (usually due to low memory for foreground tasks).

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/BackgroundDownload

#native #background #downloader

Building a custom renderer for Unity - Command Buffers

High-level info about what it is and how it can be used

https://fazz.dev/articles/building-srp-part-two

#srp #commandbuffer

Rival - DOTS Character Controller for Unity

Rival is a DOTS character controller built for extensibility & performance, and made with networking in mind. It comes with a samples project that includes a 3D platformer and an online FPS.

Package: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/rival-dots-character-controller-for-unity-225129

Samples: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/rival-samples

#character #controller #dots

Building a custom renderer for Unity - Draw Calls & Batching

This series of posts is like a short paraphrase of catlikecoding SRP tutorials and without code. If you find it hard to start the amazing tutorial by catlikecoding since it is really huge, then you can begin with this one for some short theory to be more in context.

https://fazz.dev/articles/building-srp-part-three

#srp #drawcall #srpbatcher

Building a custom renderer for Unity - Directional Shadow Rendering

How shadows from a directional light are rendered and common artifacts that appear in that process.

https://fazz.dev/articles/building-srp-part-four

#shadow #rendering

Building a custom renderer for Unity - Rendering opaques and transparent

https://fazz.dev/articles/building-srp-part-five

#srp #renderqueue

V Rising's Animation Layering in Unity

https://80.lv/articles/v-rising-s-animation-layering-in-unity/

#animation #blendtree #animationlayer

Building better paths while maintaining creative flow with Splines in 2022.2

https://blog.unity.com/technology/building-better-paths-with-splines-in-2022-2

Package forum thread: https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-splines.1345052/

#spline #bezier #curve

unity-stylized-water: A stylized water shader (and material presets) for Unity (built-in RP)

https://github.com/danielshervheim/unity-stylized-water

#water #shader