Unity 2021 shaders and effects cookbook : over 50 recipes to help you transform your game into a visually stunning masterpiece / John P. Doran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doran, John P., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer games--Development.

Computer games.

Video games--Programming.

Video games.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (485 pages)

Edition:

4th ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2021.

System Details:

text file HTML

Biography/History:

Doran John P. : John P. Doran is a passionate and seasoned Technical Game Designer, Software Engineer, and Author who is based in Incheon, South Korea. His passion for game development began at an early age. He later graduated from DigiPen Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Game Design. For over a decade, John has gained extensive hands-on expertise in game development working in various roles ranging from game designer to lead UI programmer working in teams consisting of just himself to over 70 people in student, mod, and professional game projects including working at LucasArts on Star Wars: 1313. Additionally, John has worked in game development education teaching in Singapore, South Korea, and the United States. To date, he has authored over 10 books pertaining to game development. John is currently a Technical Game Design Instructor at George Mason University Korea. Prior to his present ventures, he was an award-winning videographer.

Summary:

Shaders enable you to create powerful visuals for your game projects. However, creating shaders for your games can be notoriously challenging with various factors such as complex mathematics standing in the way of attaining the level of realism you crave for your shaders.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and credits

Contributors

About the reviewers

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Post Processing Stack

Technical requirements

Installing the Post Processing Stack

Getting ready

How to do it...

Getting a filmic look using grain, vignetting, and depth of field

How it works...

Mimicking real life with bloom and anti-aliasing

Setting the mood with color grading

Creating a horror game look with fog

Chapter 2: Creating Your First Shader

Creating a basic Standard Shader

There's more...

Adding properties to a shader

See also

Using properties in a Surface Shader

Chapter 3: Working with Surface Shaders

Implementing diffuse shading

Accessing and modifying packed arrays

Creating a shader with normal mapping

Creating a Holographic Shader

Chapter 4: Working with Texture Mapping

Adding a texture to a shader

Scrolling textures by modifying UV values

Creating a transparent material

Getting ready.

How to do it...

Packing and blending textures

Creating a circle around your terrain

Getting ready…

There's more…

Chapter 5: Understanding Lighting Models

Creating a custom diffuse lighting model

Creating a toon shader

Creating a Phong Specular type

Creating a Blinn-Phong Specular type

Creating an Anisotropic Specular type

Chapter 6: Physically Based Rendering

Understanding the metallic setup

Adding transparency to PBR

Creating mirrors and reflective surfaces

Baking lights into your scene

Chapter 7: Vertex Functions

Accessing a vertex color in a Surface Shader

How to do it…

How it works…

Animating vertices in a Surface Shader

Extruding your models

Implementing a snow shader

Implementing a volumetric explosion

Chapter 8: Fragment Shaders and Grab Passes.

Technical requirements

Understanding Vertex and Fragment Shaders

Using grab passes to draw behind objects

Implementing a Glass Shader

Implementing a Water Shader for 2D games

Chapter 9: Mobile Shader Adjustment

Techniques to make shaders more efficient

Profiling your shaders

Modifying our shaders for mobile

Chapter 10: Screen Effects with Unity Render Textures

Setting up a screen effects script system

Using brightness, saturation, and contrast with screen effects

Using basic Photoshop-like Blend Modes with screen effects

Using the Overlay Blend Mode with screen effects

Chapter 11: Gameplay and Screen Effects

Creating an old movie screen effect

Creating a night-vision screen effect

Chapter 12: Advanced Shading Techniques

Using Unity's built-in CgInclude files

There's more.

Making your shader work in a modular way with CgInclude

Implementing a Fur Shader

Implementing Heatmaps with arrays

Chapter 13: Shader Graph - 2D

Technical requirement

Creating a URP-based Shader Graph project

Implementing a simple Shader Graph

Exposing properties to the Inspector via Shader Graph

Creating a Sprite Outline Shader

Chapter 14: Shader Graph - 3D

Implementing a glowing highlight system

Portal Shaders in Unity

Creating custom Shader Graph functions

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ISBN:

9781839217692

1839217693

OCLC:

1281966198