A shader effect which looks like a field of grass.
2021 | Unity 2021 LTS Series Even more shaders for URP!
URP, Shader Graph, Post-Processing, Halftone, Grass, Energy Shields, Uber-shaders
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Continuing from the URP series, this set of tutorials explores even more shaders, primarily for URP. Shader Graph-based shaders will likely work in HDRP and the built-in pipeline too! Shaders in this series were built with Unity 2021.3 LTS.
Five URP shader effects, from left to right: Dissolve, 2D Outlines, Cel-Shaded, Wind Waker-style Water, Dither Transparency.

URP | Universal Render Pipeline Series

A range of tutorials for URP (pre-2021.3)!

URP, Cel-shading, Shader Graph, Metaballs, Post-Processing, Water, Outlines, Dissolve, Transparency, Dithering, Rain
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In 2018, the rendering system in Unity was totally overhauled, resulting in Scriptable Render Pipelines. One of the two new pipelines, called Universal Render Pipeline, targets all kinds of devices. In this series of articles, we'll build tons of shaders and explore what makes URP unique.
The word 'Portals' travelling through a pair of portals. The end of the word travels through a blue portal on the right and appears visible through an orange portal at 90 degrees on the left.

Portals | Physics-Accurate Portals Series

Fully-featured recursive portals!

Skyboxes, Stencil Rendering, Oblique Near-Plane Projection, Portal Physics, Particles, Recursion, Screenspace Sampling
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Many games feature portals. This series explores a complete implementation of physics-accurate portals, starting with Spyro-style portals as an hors d'oeuvre and building up to a recursive scene-rendering portal with Rigidbody-based portal momentum preservation!
Five image effect shaders, from left to right: Fisheye Lens, Chromatic Abberation, Underwater, Sepia-Toned, Mosaic.

Image Effects | Ultra Filters Series

Even more fabulous filters!

Fisheye, Underwater, Mosaic, Anaglyph 3D, Cinematic, Invert, Channel Separation
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Following on from the original Image Effects series, these tutorials go beyond existing effects I've seen in games and go on to implement new effects - from cinematic film grain and black bars, to red-and-cyan-glasses anaglyph 3D, to wobbly and watery waves, there's lots of variety!
HTML-like code is visible on the left hand side of the image, and on the right is a picture of a light bulb, styled to look like a Unity Logo cube.

Unity Tips | Deep Dives

In-depth articles on how to use the Unity Engine

Persistent Data, Scriptable Objects, Interpolation, Coroutines, Garbage Collection
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Ever needed more of an in-depth look into parts of the Unity Engine? The intention of this series is to consolidate as much high-quality information on each topic into one place as possible. Topics include Interpolation, Garbage Collection, Persistent Data, ScriptableObjects and Coroutines.
A cel-shaded yellow Ethan (from the old Unity Standard Assets) on a backdrop of orange stripes.

Cel Shading | Toon Lighting Shaders

Building a cel-shaded effect from scratch

Diffuse, Specular, Cel-Shaded, Fresnel, Normal, Edge-Detect
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Moving on from image effects, this series looks at lighting models used to illuminate 3D models. We look at basic diffuse lighting, then build on our lighting model to introduce specular highlights, fresnel lighting, bold outlines, and - key to cel-shading - introduce hard cuts in our lighting.
A series of image effects, from left to right: Greyscale, Silhouette, Gaussian Blur, Outline, Neon, Game Boy, CRT, Oil Painting.

Image Effects | Snapshot Mode Filters

Recreating Super Mario Odyssey's Snapshot Mode effects as Unity shaders

Greyscale, Sepia, Silhouette, Box Blur, Gaussian Blur, Line Drawing, Neon, Bloom, NES, SNES, Game Boy, CRT, Oil Painting
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This series is a gentle introduction to many key shader features and guides you gently into shader syntax and the shader-writing mindset. By the end, you'll have written about a dozen fully-featured filter effects!