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Shader Basics, Blending & Textures • Shaders for Game Devs [Part 1]

Name: Shader Basics, Blending & Textures • Shaders for Game Devs [Part 1]
Description: The first part of Freya Holmer's three-part, nearly four-hour lecture on shader coding for game devs in Unity. It covers what shaders are, vertex and fragment shaders, interpolators, data types, blending and textures.

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Recommended as a good first-steps shader tutorial that also teaches broad graphics knowledge.

The first part of Freya Holmer's three-part, nearly four-hour lecture on shader coding for game devs in Unity. It covers what shaders are, vertex and fragment shaders, interpolators, data types, blending and textures.

“I liked this tutorial series as a "first steps" by Freya Holmér” (HN, 2022)

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@high_byte Sep 2021 Recommends

on HN thread Visualize 3D hyperbolic honeycombs and sphere packings

[link] and a good sandbox is [link] and you should consider unity too, this is a good tutorial but also lots of good info about graphics in general: [this video]

Good tutorial with broad graphics information.

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@honkycat Feb 2022 Recommends

on HN thread The harsh truth of video games programming

For procedural animation: I have yet to find the path to learning this skill. It is very opaque, and I think you just need to attack it with your brain and learn it. For shader and graphics programming: I liked this tutorial series as a "first steps" by Freya Holmér: [this video] Here is another list: [link] The Book of Shaders is a popular suggestion, but it appears to be abandoned: [link] For general Unreal? Tom Looman's $300 Unreal C++ class, available on his website. It is pricey but really excellent. I also discovered this AWESOME list of learning paths for all gamedev concepts: [link]

First-steps shader tutorial series.

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@FjordWarden Apr 2025 Recommends

on HN thread Shadertoys Ported to Rust GPU

I've always enjoyed watching The Art of Code[1], Freya[2] also has a good number of videos on it. But that is just vertex shaders for things like Shadertoys. There is much more to computer graphics or GPGPU than this though, Im still learning about that myself X). [1] [link] [2] [this video]

Freya has many videos on shaders.

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