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The Unity Shaders Bible
A linear explanation of shaders from beginner to advanced. Improve your game graphics with Unity and become a professional technical artist.
- Introduction to the shader programming language.
- Lighting, shadow, and surface.
- Compute Shader, Ray Tracing, and Sphere Tracing.
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Who this is for.
Unity enthusiasts who want to learn shader language step by step.
Game developers looking to improve the graphics of their games.
Artists who want to transition into technical art for Unity game development.
Designed for both aspiring and experienced technical artists, The Unity Shaders Bible is a 370+ page guide that takes you from the fundamentals of shader programming to advanced topics like ray tracing and compute shaders — all within the Unity engine. You’ll begin by understanding the structure of shaders in ShaderLab, Cg, and HLSL, exploring how properties, SubShaders, and intrinsic functions work under the hood. As you progress, you’ll dive into lighting models, shadow casting, normal mapping, and surface shaders, mastering essential techniques for real-time rendering. The book also covers Shader Graph, advanced effects using Compute Shaders, and ray tracing workflows, providing a solid foundation for high-performance visual effects. Whether you're creating custom lighting, working with buffers, or exploring sphere tracing, this book blends theory with practice in a clear, hands-on way — and it's available in both English and Spanish.
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1. Introduction to the shader programming language.
- It covers previous knowledge (normals, vertices, tangents, and more).
- Shows the structure of a shader in ShaderLab, Cg, and HLSL language.
- Analogy between properties and global variables.
- SubShader and commands (ColorMask, Stencil, Blending and more).
- Intrinsic functions (step, smoothstep, ceil, floor and more).
- Matrices and much more.
2. Lighting, shadow and surface.
- We will review a simple lighting model.
- Look at the normal map and its implementation.
- Ambient, diffuse, specular and environmental reflection.
- Lighting and shadow analysis.
- Standard Surface shader, inputs and outputs.
- Shader Graph and much more.
3. Compute shader, ray tracing and sphere tracing.
- It covers advanced concepts (threads, ray cast, GPGPU, and more).
- The structure of a Compute Shader and buffer variables.
- Compute Shader semantics (SV_DispatchThreadID, SV_Group, and more).
- Kernel explanation.
- Implicit surfaces and smooth minimum explanation.
- Ray Tracing rendering configuration and more.
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What do readers think about this course?
Julian Cano
5.0
It’s an excellent material to study and learn technical art with shaders! What I have seen has been very detailed and applicable.
Jab Deeb
4.0
Solid overall, good read, straightforward.
Eugene
5.0
It is great work guys! This book allows me to structure and arrange my knowledge about creating shaders. Because before, my knowledge was like a bunch of separate pieces.
Sourav Chatterjee
5.0
It is a very ambitious and useful book that tries hard to demystify shaders.
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