Resources-for-Writing-Shaders-in-Unity

For the UNITE Boston 2015 talk titled Writing Shaders: YOU can do it!

Watch the talk on YouTube

Download Unity Project (5.2) with all the shaders mentioned during the talk.

A list of great resources when learning to write shaders in Unity.

• Unity Documentation - Shader Reference
• CG Programming in Unity
• The CG Tutorial by Nvidia
• Real-time Rendering
• (Video) Noob to Pro Unity Shader Writing in Unity 4 - Nice explanation of shaders and shader structure in this good video series on Shaders in Unity
• (Video) Unity Cg Shaders - Unity CG shader tutorial series by Prime31
• Vertex Shaders in Unity - Nice introduction to shaders in Unity, with diffuse and specular lighting examples
• CG Shaders with Unity
• Unity Shader System Introduction
• A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011 - Very nicely detailed walkthrough of the graphics pipeline, GPU architecture details, and more
• ARM Guide to Unity - Enhancing Your Mobile Games - Very nice explanation of shaders in Unity. Has detailed explanations of shader structure, vertex shader, fragment shader, shader inputs, pipeline stages etc.
• Learn OpenGL - Great site for learning OpenGL
• A Gentle Introduction to Shaders in Unity
• Awesome OpenGL - A curated list of awesome OpenGL libraries, debuggers and resources
• Graphics Resources
• Aras' blog - Aras' blog for nitty gritty details of Unity rendering