Your Ultimate Guide to Shader Graph for Beginners

Your Ultimate Guide to Shader Graph for Beginners, available at $84.99, has an average rating of 4.55, with 88 lectures, based on 484 reviews, and has 5174 subscribers.

You will learn about Develop skills in building visually stunning shaders with node based tools Identify shader nodes based on the results they produce Understand the fundamental algorithms applied to produce shader effects Complete over 50 individual shader effects that can be used in any project This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner shader developers or Artists who want to create shaders without learning to code or Anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge of shaders It is particularly useful for Beginner shader developers or Artists who want to create shaders without learning to code or Anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge of shaders.

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Summary

Title: Your Ultimate Guide to Shader Graph for Beginners

Price: $84.99

Average Rating: 4.55

Number of Lectures: 88

Number of Published Lectures: 88

Number of Curriculum Items: 88

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 88

Original Price: $69.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Develop skills in building visually stunning shaders with node based tools

Identify shader nodes based on the results they produce

Understand the fundamental algorithms applied to produce shader effects

Complete over 50 individual shader effects that can be used in any project

Who Should Attend

Beginner shader developers

Artists who want to create shaders without learning to code

Anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge of shaders

Target Audiences

Beginner shader developers

Artists who want to create shaders without learning to code

Anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge of shaders

This course presents a comprehensive guide to creating vertex and fragment shaders using Unity’s visual programming tool Shader Graph.  There’s no need for prior knowledge or programming of shaders needed.

Over 15 Hours of step-by-step tutorials and challenges.

Filled to the brim with follow-along and shader creation challenges, this course will give you a thorough grounding in shader development and the fundamental practices in Physical-Based Rendering (PBR) with a member of the Unity Game Engine’s Educational Advisory Board and an acclaimed academic and teacher with over 30 years experience.

This course will guide you through the process of creating your own visual surface effects for colouring and lighting game objects. It gently covers the mathematics of light and surfaces and steps you through the recreation of some of the most popular shaders, including Fresnel, Complex Water, Holograms, Flowing Lava, Liquids, Fire, and more.  The shader concepts will be presented in an easy-to-understand manner to help grasp the graphics pipeline and provide you with an essential toolkit of rendering knowledge, that will have you developing your own transparent, animated, and texturised shaders in Unity’s Built-In, Universal, and High-Definition Render Pipelines.

This course has been developed with Unity 2021.3 LTS and Shader Graph 12.1.6

Learn how to program and work with:

Unity’s Shader Graph.

Model, Camera, and World View Coordinate Spaces.

Lighting Effects.

Procedurally Generated Patterns.

Normals.

Scene Depths.

Refraction for Transparent Surfaces (and much more)

In this course, Penny teaches all the invaluable skills you will require to interact with the computer graphics render pipeline using Shader Graph in Unity from scratch using her internationally acclaimed teaching style and knowledge from over 30 years of working with games and graphics.  Through detailed descriptions and hands-on workshops, you’ll learn all you need to know about rendering queues, vector mathematics, graphics buffers, colour theory, 3D meshes, texture mapping, lighting models, and much more.

Contents and Overview

After diving right in and creating your very first Shader Graph shader from scratch, you delve into the fundamental concepts of creating an unlit shader and discover how colours can be mixed for surface effects, and how to put an external texture onto a game object.

Following this, you will examine a variety of lighting models and how lights and surface textures can influence the final look of a render.  In this part, you will develop shaders with different lighting and investigate physically-based rendering that caters for metallic surfaces and considers world reflections. The remainder of the course concentrates on building up your essential mathematics skills related to creating shaders and focussing on the essentials that you can take and customise for your own needs.

Finally, there’s an advanced water shader section on adding special effects to water surfaces such as depth colour, waves, surface foam, and splash particles.

What students are saying about Penny’s other shader courses:

This course is amazing! Penny has got to be, hands down, one of the best instructors on game development, Unity, and C#! In the span of three hours, I have learned so much that it rivals my graduate program!

Best shader course I’ve come across. There are enough and more tutorials on youtube to teach you how to develop your own shaders, but nothing falls into the class of Penny’s tutorials. They are clear and to the point. Really happy about this one.

Wow! Thank you so much! If there were 10 stars – this course would deserve it. Going from absolutely knowing nothing about Shader writing to have a profound understanding about it..

I wanted to let you know that I just finished your shader course and thought it was fantastic. It was a pleasure to take the course and finally get a grasp on a topic that seemed so foreign to me not so long ago. Your teaching style and personality really worked for me and made learning a breeze!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome

Lecture 2: Join the H3D Student Community

Lecture 3: FAQs

Chapter 2: Fundamentals

Lecture 1: Installing Shader Graph

Lecture 2: My First Shader

Lecture 3: Vertex and Fragments

Lecture 4: Shader Anatomy 101

Chapter 3: Unlit Shader Basics

Lecture 1: Flat Single Colour

Lecture 2: Lets Talk About Colour

Lecture 3: Using Positions for Colour

Lecture 4: Using Normals for Colour

Lecture 5: Mixing Colours

Lecture 6: More on Mixing Colours

Lecture 7: Adding a Texture

Chapter 4: Lit Shader Basics

Lecture 1: Lambert Lighting Model

Lecture 2: Lighting Models

Lecture 3: The Anatomy of PBR

Lecture 4: Applying metallic and smoothness images.

Lecture 5: Adding Intensity Sliders

Lecture 6: Reflections

Lecture 7: Reflections Part 2

Lecture 8: Reflecting World Objects

Lecture 9: Ambient Occlusion

Chapter 5: Coordinate Spaces

Lecture 1: Understanding Tangent, Object, View and World Space

Lecture 2: Exploring the Object Space

Lecture 3: Exploring the World Space

Lecture 4: Exploring the View Space

Lecture 5: Exploring the Tangent Space

Lecture 6: Coordinate Space Challenge

Chapter 6: Unitys Render Pipeline

Lecture 1: An Overview of Unitys Render Pipelines

Lecture 2: A first look at the Universal Render Pipeline

Lecture 3: A Short Interlude to Explore Subgraphs

Lecture 4: A first look at the High Definition Render Pipeline

Lecture 5: Bent Normals

Lecture 6: Forward and Deferred Rendering

Chapter 7: Blending

Lecture 1: Basic Blending

Lecture 2: Linear & Colour Burn Blending

Lecture 3: More Blending Modes

Lecture 4: Darkening Blend Modes

Lecture 5: Lightening Blend Modes

Lecture 6: Contrasting Blend Modes

Chapter 8: Essential Concepts You Should Know

Lecture 1: Time

Lecture 2: Rotating with Time

Lecture 3: Lerping

Lecture 4: Lerping a Liquid Part 1

Lecture 5: Lerping a Liquid Part 2

Lecture 6: Tiling

Lecture 7: Masking

Lecture 8: Animating Masked Glow

Chapter 9: Procedural Generation

Lecture 1: What is procedural generation?

Lecture 2: Noisy Vertex Displacement Part 1

Lecture 3: Noisy Vertex Displacement Part 2

Lecture 4: Simple Noise Wood Grain

Lecture 5: Enhanced Wood Grain

Lecture 6: Tiles

Lecture 7: Procedural Shapes

Lecture 8: Voronoi Diagrams

Lecture 9: Simple Fire Part 1

Lecture 10: Simple Fire Part 2

Lecture 11: Complex Fire

Lecture 12: UV Ripple

Chapter 10: The Illusion of Depth

Lecture 1: Depth Illusion Shaders

Lecture 2: Bump Mapping

Lecture 3: Normal Mapping

Lecture 4: Normal Blending

Lecture 5: The Importance of a Normals Z

Lecture 6: Scrolling Normals

Chapter 11: Working with Scene Depth

Lecture 1: Depth Intersection

Lecture 2: Texturing the Depth Intersection

Lecture 3: Expanding the Intersection Zone

Lecture 4: Creating a Forcefield Part 1

Lecture 5: Creating a Forcefield Part 2

Lecture 6: Water with Depth

Chapter 12: Tricks of Light

Lecture 1: Crystals Effects

Lecture 2: Holograms

Lecture 3: Refraction

Lecture 4: Ice

Lecture 5: Iridescence

Chapter 13: Project: Advanced Water

Lecture 1: Advanced Water Project Part 1: Flowing Water

Lecture 2: Advanced Water Project Part 2: Refraction

Lecture 3: Advanced Water Project Part 3: Pool Water

Lecture 4: Advanced Water Project Part 4: Pool Normals

Lecture 5: Advanced Water Project Part 5: Vertex Displacement

Lecture 6: Advanced Water Project Part 6: Foam

Lecture 7: Advanced Water Project Part 7: Particle Splashes

Lecture 8: Advanced Water Project Part 8: Final Colouring

Chapter 14: Final Words

Instructors

Penny de Byl
International Award Winning Professor & Best Selling Author

Penny Holistic3D
Academic, Author & Game Development Enthusiast

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 3 votes

2 stars: 5 votes

3 stars: 18 votes

4 stars: 120 votes

5 stars: 338 votes

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