Tutorials

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• How to Start a Career in Games
• Advice on Getting Advice & Mentorship (in the Game Industry)
• Game Dev Portfolio Guide
• Questions to ask game studios you’re interviewing with
• How to Succeed at a Game Jam
• Getting Started Learning Tech Art & Unity Shader Writing

Shader Tutorials

These tutorials are in Unity’s ShaderLab, which uses CG.

Outline Shaders:

• Cel Shader with Outline
• Colored Outline Shader
• Animated Dotted Outline Shader

Water shaders:

• 2D Reflective Water Shader
• 3D Water Shader

Extending Unity’s pipeline:

• Using Command Buffers in Unity: Selective Bloom

Special effect shaders:

• Color Spread Post-Processing Effect
• Foggy Window Shader
• X-Ray Effect Tutorial
• Rim Highlight Shader
• Texture Mask Shader
• Heat Distortion Effect Tutorial
• Camera Effect Shader
• Waving Grass Shader
• Custom Diffuse Shader
• Ice Shader
• Dissolve Shader
• Glass Shader with Opaque Edge (So Good Games blog)

Other graphics-related tutorials:

• Basic Math for Shaders
• Full Game Aesthetic Tutorial
• Unity Graphics Settings

Procedural Geometry Tutorials

Most of these tutorials explain procedural geometry concepts in pseudocode that could be adapted to any framework. The Intro series is in Unity with C#.

Intro series:

• Intro to Procedural Geometry, Part 1
• Intro to Procedural Geometry, Part 2
• Intro to Procedural Geometry, Part 3

Shapes:

• Procedural Torus
• Procedural Sphere

Mesh effects:

• Procedural Greebles
• Mesh Tessellation & Triangulation
• Mesh Extrusion
• Mesh Stellation