Gradients are used for many things within Shaders, such as fading transparency, allowing a shift between two or more colors over time, or adding a vignette. Within the Shader Graph, there are two Gradient nodes you’ll want to become familiar with. In this tutorial, you will learn to adjust gradients to customize Shaders.

Eventually you will want to create a shader that animates continuously or at certain points in time. Whatever the goal, you will use the Time node to achieve this. The Time node allows you to access multiple time variables to work with within the shader. In this tutorial, you will learn to adjust and manage animations in Shaders.

Streamline your workflow by creating high-quality shaders. Shader Graph lets you visually author shaders and see the results in real-time. This session looks at how materials use texture maps to define the overall appearance of assets, then demonstrates how materials, textures, shaders and lighting all work together to create the final look.

In this tutorial, we’ll create a Shader Graph to displace the vertices of a mesh along their normals by an amount controlled with procedural noise.

There will be times when you want to manipulate the UVs, tiling or offset of your Textures, normals or results of a gradient. This is when the Tiling and Offset node becomes useful. In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Tiling and Offset node.

With Unity’s Visual Effect Graph, you can integrate Shaders from Shader Graph into your effects. Although currently an experimental feature, it provides new opportunities for enhancing the look and feel of your effects without doing any Shader coding. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create Shaders in Shader Graph that are compatible with the Visual Effect Graph, explore how properties can be integrated into your effects, and use these properties to drive your Shader effects. To demonstrate this, this tutorial uses a fireworks example effect.

Working on a Shader requires you to use different positional information than the default coordinates. The Position node allows you to select which coordinate system to use.

Eventually you will want to create a shader that animates continuously or at certain points in time. Whatever the goal, you will use the Time node to achieve this. The Time node allows you to access multiple time variables to work with within the shader. In this tutorial, you will learn to adjust and manage animations in Shaders.

In this project, you will learn how to apply and configure some of the key VFX properties in Unity’s Visual FX Graph tool. You will utilise GPU events to create realistic fireworks effects, and you will learn how to integrate Shader Graph with Visual Effects graph to enhance the look and feel of visual effects. Suggested Skill Level & Prerequisite Knowledge - It is expected participants should already have some understanding of the following: Unity Editor level: Beginner to Intermediate VFX Graph level: Beginner Shader Graph level: Beginner Optional: Complete Making Snow with VFX Graph and Make a Flag with Shader Graph projects

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. Already know this material? You can "test out" of this mission by completing the mission assessments. Scroll down and select Skip to mission checkpoint.