In my spare time, I buff my graphics programming skills by creating shaders and playing with the scriptable rendering pipeline in Unity. I document what I’ve learned on my shader tutorial blog.

Kytana Le created the model & texture for the iconic dog.

Color Spread Post-Processing

A post-processing effect which spreads color in world-space over time and has a shape and glow to the edges. Created with Unity’s Lightweight Render Pipeline.

Links: Tutorial, Code

Heat Distortion Shader

A heat distortion effect with stronger distortion at the center of the effect. Effect looks the same from any angle.

Links: Tutorial, Code

Foggy Window Shader

Mouse interaction writes to a texture which encodes location and time of click, which is then read by shader to control intensity of Gaussian blur and reduce intensity with time.

Links: Code

Water

A water shader with foam lines using depth and a waving effect using vertex animation.

Links: Tutorial, Code

X-Ray Shader

An effect that renders a the model translucent when depth occluded behind other objects.

Links: Tutorial, Code

Waving Grass

A shader that animates the vertices of the model based on world x,y position and local y to give the effect of grass blowing in the wind.

Links: Tutorial, Code

Texture Mask Shader

A shader utilizing a texture mask to replace the original texture in certain locations with one drawn in screenspace coordinates for an ethereal effect.

Links: Tutorial, Code

Cat Eye Shader

An effect created with several different objects, each with unique shaders, including one utilizing a signed distance field to change the shape of the pupil.

Links: iris code, pupil code

Ice Shader

Ice shader with normal mapping for bumpy ice texture, distortion behind the object, and fresnel-like effect for bright edges.

Links: Tutorial, Code

Custom Diffuse Shader

Proof that I know how to do normal lighting stuff, too!

Links: Tutorial, Code

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