Shader Development from Scratch for Unity with Cg

Shader Development from Scratch for Unity with Cg, available at $89.99, has an average rating of 4.76, with 78 lectures, 1 quizzes, based on 3354 reviews, and has 20672 subscribers.

You will learn about Use Unity Shaderlab to create their own shader effects with CG/HLSL. Apply their knowledge of simple mathematics to change the visual surface of virtual objects. Work with mesh vertices and textures to develop unique rendering effects. Demonstrate a knowledge of the graphics pipeline and apply it to problem solving shading issues. This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone fascinated by the way computer graphics works. or Anyone wanting to understand how to write their own shaders. or Anyone who loves the visual effects that can be achieved through simple code and mathematics. It is particularly useful for Anyone fascinated by the way computer graphics works. or Anyone wanting to understand how to write their own shaders. or Anyone who loves the visual effects that can be achieved through simple code and mathematics.

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Summary

Title: Shader Development from Scratch for Unity with Cg

Price: $89.99

Average Rating: 4.76

Number of Lectures: 78

Number of Quizzes: 1

Number of Published Lectures: 78

Number of Published Quizzes: 1

Number of Curriculum Items: 79

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 79

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Use Unity Shaderlab to create their own shader effects with CG/HLSL.

Apply their knowledge of simple mathematics to change the visual surface of virtual objects.

Work with mesh vertices and textures to develop unique rendering effects.

Demonstrate a knowledge of the graphics pipeline and apply it to problem solving shading issues.

Who Should Attend

Anyone fascinated by the way computer graphics works.

Anyone wanting to understand how to write their own shaders.

Anyone who loves the visual effects that can be achieved through simple code and mathematics.

Target Audiences

Anyone fascinated by the way computer graphics works.

Anyone wanting to understand how to write their own shaders.

Anyone who loves the visual effects that can be achieved through simple code and mathematics.

Now Updated for Unity 2017 to 2019

This course presents a comprehensive guide to programming with Cg and High Level Shader Language in Unity’s Shaderlab, to create your own visual surface effects for colouring and lighting game objects. It covers the mathematics of light and surfaces and steps you through the recreation of some of the most popular shaders. Many computer graphics concepts will be presented to help you understand the graphics pipeline and provide you with an essential toolkit of rendering knowledge, that will have you developing your own transparent, animated and texturised shaders in no time.

In this course, Penny teaches all the invaluable skills you will require to program the computer graphics pipeline in Unity from scratch using her internationally acclaimed teaching style and knowledge from over 25 years working with games and graphics.  But hold on tight as you’ll be taken on a journey across the computer graphics realm as it is taught to post-graduate university students. Through detailed descriptions and hands-on workshops examining all you need to know about rendering queues, vector mathematics, graphics buffers, colour theory, 3D meshes, texture mapping, lighting models and much more.

Learn how to program and work with:

variables and packed arrays

meshes, vertices and UVs

the mathematics for working with objects in 3D and 2D spaces

a variety of lighting models from creating flat shaded objects to highly reflective shiny surfaces

bump maps for adding extra depth and dimension to surface textures

special effects such as holographic, scrolling textures and surface deformations

the variety of graphics buffers used in the rendering pipeline

forward and deferred lighting

surface, vertex and fragment shaders written in CG/HLSL

volumetric rendering

Contents and Overview

After diving right in and creating your very first shader from scratch, we will begin the lessons by examining how 3D models are structured and how that is used within shader code to colour and display the surface in computer graphics. You’ll discover all the properties of a shader and how they can be controlled in code and via values fed in through Unity’s Inspector.

Following this, we will examine a variety of lighting models and how lights and surface textures can influence the final look of a render. Included here, an overview of the buffers involved in the rendering queue will be given with practical examples for creating special effects that require more than one draw call. Students will also be exposed to the power of vector mathematics and especially the dot product and its role in creating beautiful effects such as outlines, rim lighting and holograms. In addition, issues surrounding transparency and blending will be discussed along with many practical hands-on workshops in which students can flex their newfound skills to interrogate the code they write for better understanding.

The next section brings together all the skills learned throughout together, to develop some of the more popular complex shaders including animated plasma and animated water with waves.

Finally volumetric shaders are covered in which you will follow along to create special effects such as fake geometry, fog and clouds.

What students are saying about this course:

This is the best course I’ve ever taken. It is perfect for me. I worked for 15 years in feature animation. A large part of my career was spent developing shaders for a proprietary renderer. This course has already helped me to bring the value of my previous experience into Unity.

Best shader course I’ve come across. There are enough and more tutorials on youtube to teach you how to develop your own shaders, but nothing falls into the class of Penny’s tutorials. They are clear and to the point. Really happy about this one.

Wow! Thank you so much! If there were 10 stars – this course would deserve it. Going from absolutely knowing nothing about Shader writing to have a profund understanding about it..

I wanted to let you know that I just finished your shader course and thought it was fantastic. It was a pleasure to take the course and finally get a grasp on a topic that seemed so foreign to me not so long ago. Your teaching style and personality really worked for me and made learning a breeze!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome

Lecture 2: Join the H3D Student Community

Lecture 3: Contacting H3D

Lecture 4: FAQs

Lecture 5: Help! Why cant I see my shaders correctly?

Lecture 6: The Rendering Pipeline

Lecture 7: Your First Surface Shader

Lecture 8: Challenge

Lecture 9: Crash Course in Vector Mathematics

Chapter 2: Shader Essentials

Lecture 1: Variables and Packed Arrays

Lecture 2: The Anatomy of a Mesh and Shader Input

Lecture 3: Shader Properties

Lecture 4: Properties Challenge 1

Lecture 5: Properties Challenge 2

Lecture 6: Properties Challenge 3

Lecture 7: Properties Challenge 4

Chapter 3: Illuminating Surfaces

Lecture 1: Lambert & Lighting

Lecture 2: Normal Mapping

Lecture 3: Bumped Diffuse Challenge

Lecture 4: Visualising Normals

Lecture 5: Illumination Models

Lecture 6: Bumped Environments

Lecture 7: Bumped Environments Challenge

Lecture 8: Buffers and Queues

Chapter 4: The Dot Product

Lecture 1: The Dot Product

Lecture 2: Rim Lighting

Lecture 3: Logical Cutoffs

Lecture 4: Challenge

Chapter 5: Lighting

Lecture 1: Lighting Models

Lecture 2: Blinn-Phong Lighting & Surface Output

Lecture 3: Physically-Based Rendering

Lecture 4: Challenge 1

Lecture 5: Challenge 2

Lecture 6: Writing Your Own Lighting Model

Lecture 7: Challenge 3

Lecture 8: Challenge 4

Chapter 6: Passes & Blending

Lecture 1: The Alpha Channel

Lecture 2: Holograms

Lecture 3: Blending

Lecture 4: Leaves and Culling

Lecture 5: Blending Two Images

Lecture 6: Stencil Buffer

Lecture 7: Advanced Stencils

Chapter 7: Writing Vertex and Fragment Shaders

Lecture 1: The Anatomy of a Vertex/Fragment Shader

Lecture 2: Colouring by Vertices and Fragments

Lecture 3: Material Use

Lecture 4: Lighting

Lecture 5: Shadows

Lecture 6: Challenge 1

Lecture 7: Challenge 2

Chapter 8: Advanced Effects

Lecture 1: Vertex Extruding

Lecture 2: Outlining

Lecture 3: Glass

Lecture 4: Waves

Lecture 5: Scrolling Textures

Lecture 6: Challenge 1

Lecture 7: Plasma

Lecture 8: Challenge 2

Chapter 9: Volumetric Rendering

Lecture 1: Ray Marching

Lecture 2: More on Ray Marching

Lecture 3: Spherical Fog

Lecture 4: Rendering Fog Density P1

Lecture 5: Rendering Fog Density P2

Lecture 6: Volumetric Clouds Value Noise

Lecture 7: Programming Value Noise P1

Lecture 8: Programming Value Noise P2

Lecture 9: Programming Value Noise P3

Lecture 10: Integrating Colours and Depth

Lecture 11: Enhanced Noise

Lecture 12: Clouds On Camera P1

Lecture 13: Clouds On Camera P2

Lecture 14: Clouds On Camera P3

Lecture 15: Clouds On Camera P4

Lecture 16: References

Chapter 10: Final Words

Lecture 1: Where to Now?

Chapter 11: Appendices

Lecture 1: Appendix A – CG Function List

Lecture 2: Appendix B – Shader Cheat Sheet

Lecture 3: Appendix C – Credits and Extra Resources

Instructors

Penny de Byl
International Award Winning Professor & Best Selling Author

Penny Holistic3D
Academic, Author & Game Development Enthusiast

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 9 votes

2 stars: 25 votes

3 stars: 188 votes

4 stars: 972 votes

5 stars: 2160 votes

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