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Creating a Stepped Gradient Shader in Unity
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Let’s build a stepped gradient in Unity! This is a form of gradient with hard transitions between the different keyframes in the gradient which creates clear blocks of color like you might see on a flag or logo.

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A World Space Grid Snapped Shader
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Expanding upon our exploration of a shader that snaps vertices to a grid. This time we’re moving things into world space!

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What Happens When You Snap Vertices To A Grid?
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In this video I get to play with madness. We’ll be exploring what happens if you try to “pixelate” a 3D mesh using a vertex shader.

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Exploring a Trochoidal Wave Shader
· ☕ 1 min read
Let’s try to craft some trochoidal waves - a type of fluid simulation that is both fairly simple and also looks pretty good for creating basic waves in an ocean or other fluid.

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Embedding Shadertoy in Hugo Websites - Custom Hugo Shortcodes
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Hugo Shortcodes are a way to use short snippets in your Hugo site that embed custom parameterized objects. Some built-in shortcodes can embed GitHub Gist code snippets, YouTube videos or Twitter posts.

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Writing a Snow Covered Shader
· ☕ 1 min read
Lets write a custom snow covered surface shader in Unity that can procedurally generate snow and place it on top of any object in our scene.

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Writing Our Own Diffuse Lighting Shader
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Lets explore how to build diffuse lighting onto our meshes. This is intended as somewhat of an introduction to some of the magic behind shaders.

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Turning Circular Pixels Into Diamond Pixels
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In previous videos we’ve built a pixel shader that renders circles instead of the traditional squares. You can rotate the pixels so that the circles can be oriented at any angle to one another.

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Making Our Pixels Round - Circle Pixel Shader - Part 3
· ☕ 1 min read
In the past two episodes we’ve created a pixelating shader that divides an image into a lower resolution grid of pixels and a second shader which renders a circle inside of a 1x1 area.

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Lets Draw A Circle - Circle Pixel Shader - Part 2
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Last time we built a grid of pixels for our circular pixel shader. In this video, part 2, we’re going to be figuring out how to draw a circle.

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Shadertoy: Grid Shader
· ☕ 1 min read
A Shadertoy shader creating a grid. This makes it possible to create an infintely scalable grid pattern that is fairly light-weight.

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Building a Custom Node in Unity's Shader Graph
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With the introduction of Shader Graph Unity also added support for Custom Nodes you can build yourself by creating custom CodeFunctionNode.