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Creative Core: Shaders and materials

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Beginner

6 Hours

(51)

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Skills

Summary

Shaders and materials let you define how your 3D objects look: their colors, reflectivity, and physical texture. With shaders and materials, you can bring realism into your projects or express your own artistic style.  
In this mission, you will explore concepts of light and reflection, including common terms that many 3D artists use every day. You’ll apply these concepts to create your own materials and shaders that simulate real-world objects — and even some other-worldly objects. You’ll complete this mission by creating a still life composition in which you can demonstrate a variety of shaders and materials.  
By the time you complete this learning experience, you will be able to:
Explain how surfaces in Unity are defined and rendered.
Select a type of shader for your own project.
Create materials for a common shader, using a wide variety of properties.
Create your own simple shader using Shader Graph.
About this learning experience
This project is a standalone learning experience which uses content developed for the Creative Core pathway. You’ll find everything you need to get started with shaders and materials in Unity, but you may also notice references to the guided learning journey for that pathway.
If you decide that you’d like to complete the whole Creative Core pathway, you can start at any time. You’ll receive credit for any tutorials that you have already completed when you do. 

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Last updated: December 15, 2021

2021.3

2020.3

Language

English

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Challenge: Create your still life composition

I enjoyed the experience very much

Isaac's Still Life Compisition

My followed tutorial of Shaders and Materials

Mahesh Borse

Thank you

Unlife like

A kettle made of translucent shimmering stuff, perfectly metal ball, lemon, pear, etc.

Still nature behind a fence

That's my attempt at still nature. Plant with three different leaf materials, pear, concrete box and a fenced box to hide it.

My Still life - Basic

My simple rushed Still life with a shader and some materials

Shaders and Materials Composition

A little composisition with diferent materials, using speculars, metallic, transparent, emissive materials, plastic... Also using Shader graph there is a little cube with a hologram shader.

Unity Learn Beta Shader Still Life

Shader still life