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#UnityTips: Progress Bar (Shader Graph) [v2] ✨ (+WebGL and GitHub Download 👇🧵) Here's an animated progress bar made entirely in Shader Graph. Use this for loading screens, player health, etc. Adding colours is just a matter of isolating the individual elements as masks. It's helpful to think of the... show more

Mirza Beig

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Mirza Beig3 years ago

Shader Graph. 💊

Mirza Beig3 years ago

📸+ Shader Recipe.

Mirza Beig3 years ago

GitHub:

Chris3 years ago

i gotta start joining in on this vfx friday. i love working in shaders now just tinkering. you give me a lot of inspiration

Filoki'nin Patisi3 years ago

I saw your videos from 5 years ago, you did really good work 🙏

Joe Theis | Wishlist Infiniwar!3 years ago

This is awesome! Now if only UIToolkit could use Shadergraph....

Binary Lunar: Wishlist Nightmare Shift of Steam!3 years ago

Amazing , thanks for sharing 🙏

CuddlySalmon | nptacek.eth3 years ago

dammmmmn i implemented one of these by hand back in ~2014 and it was an insane pain in the ass to get right, this is amazing! i love the progress of technology

codedreamer2 years ago

cool~

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Mirza Beig

164,624 views • 3 years ago

I’m really excited to announce that the writing of The Shader Survival Guide is done! We’re now working on the final formatting for this e-book about shader development using Shader Graph in Unity. I also want to mention that this is an interactive e-book that will include a Unity 6 project with lots of shader samples to help you understand the topics covered. This book contains more than 500 pages of knowledge I’ve gained over 10 years working as a Technical Artist in the video game industry. It will be released in the last days of June, so if you’re interested in these topics, consider adding it to your wishlist! We’ll keep you updated with more news. #shader #shadergraph #madewithunity #shadersurvivalguide #hlsl #gamedev #gameart #vfx

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Josue Ortigoza (Dervish)

23,071 views • 5 months ago

Today we are re-launching shaders in We call them Vibe Shaders. There's nothing else like them. They live next to your .pen files as GLSL files and can be easily vibecoded right on the canvas. Built by designers for designers. They deserved a special Shader Mode, a focused mode to finetune the uniforms directly in the context of your design. In addition to the classic Shader Fills, we've also added Shader Effects. This allows for incredible creative flexibility, as it applies the effect on a whole object tree that's part of a particular frame and you can change everything live, no hustling with textures. Additionally we are also launching Background Shaders, they sample the texture from everything below the object. Imagine creating your own custom background blur or a partial dither effect for objects below a frame. You can also create shaders with 3D transformations to vector logos or build custom shader brushes for vectors paths. Forget having just a fixed set of shaders, this is next level and only possible, because we have a full control over our custom renderer. We also automatically compute the SDF (signed distance field) in realtime, so vectors that have applied shaders can be changed directly on canvas without the need to re-export a new SDF file, an incredible time-saver. Look for the samples in Goodies, which has been updated with a ton of new examples. Or simply pair pen.dev with the latest models, drop in a bunch of images, ask agent to build you a shader and it's guaranteed you will feel an explosion of your creative superpowers!

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Tom Krcha

66,914 views • 4 days ago

$Great question! 🤔 How do you simulate *multiple* layers of glass/refraction in video games? In the last breakdown, I discussed how to create a glass shader in Unity URP. In essence, we were taking the render of the scene from the camera without any transparent objects. This is available in URP as the global _CameraOpaqueTexture. This is good enough for most use-cases, and more or less the classic way of doing it. 🔍 What is _CameraOpaqueTexture? As the name implies, there are no transparent objects rendered into this texture, so it's not possible by default to have something like a transparent-type ocean material/shader rendered through a refractive glass shader (which samples and distorts this texture to render on its surface, as if it's transparent). ⚠️ Why it’s tricky: It's much easier to sort without much further setup if you don't have refraction, and only a transparent material, because in that case you're not simulating the transparency yourself via sampling the rendered scene texture. But for refraction, it's required-- unless you want to go down the ray/path tracing route. You could simulate accurate, real dispersion... and that's about as expensive as it sounds, and it requires a rework of your entire rendering. --> 🚫 It's not a viable suggestion to offer. 📚 There are well-known terms regarding transparency sorting you can search up, but as you've specifically asked for refractive boxes, I'll discuss briefly about that. 🧱 Simulating layers of refraction: For this kind of rendering, you need some way to render the backfaces before rendering the front. And the backfaces that are rendered may contain whatever data you'd like for additional processing in the layer front-facing mesh render. 🧪 Examples: You could render the back face as a glass shader of its own, as an intermediate step after _CameraOpaqueTexture. Then you sample this texture instead and you end up with multi-layered refraction, "just like that". You can also render the back normals only, via a fully opaque shader, and use that to manually account for that during the front render. You could even bake in data needed for thickness in realtime. 🛠️ Without making it complicated for yourself, the most straightforward method is via render textures, and you can easily set some fractional resolution. Cameras in Unity have an open slot for target textures to render to. You can use custom render textures to process _SelfTexture2D. ⏱️ It's great to do low-resolution processing for more complex tasks, like blurring and caustics. You can get massive performance boosts, considering the square law and number of pixels/fragments that need calculations (quadratic scaling). 🚧 I've not fully exploited the possibilities myself, but research/development with PRISM is ongoing!$

Great question! 🤔 How do you simulate multiple layers of glass/refraction in video games? In the last breakdown, I discussed how to create a glass shader in Unity URP. In essence, we were taking the render of the scene from the camera without any transparent objects. This is available in URP as the global _CameraOpaqueTexture. This is good enough for most use-cases, and more or less the classic way of doing it. 🔍 What is _CameraOpaqueTexture? As the name implies, there are no transparent objects rendered into this texture, so it's not possible by default to have something like a transparent-type ocean material/shader rendered through a refractive glass shader (which samples and distorts this texture to render on its surface, as if it's transparent). ⚠️ Why it’s tricky: It's much easier to sort without much further setup if you don't have refraction, and only a transparent material, because in that case you're not simulating the transparency yourself via sampling the rendered scene texture. But for refraction, it's required-- unless you want to go down the ray/path tracing route. You could simulate accurate, real dispersion... and that's about as expensive as it sounds, and it requires a rework of your entire rendering. --> 🚫 It's not a viable suggestion to offer. 📚 There are well-known terms regarding transparency sorting you can search up, but as you've specifically asked for refractive boxes, I'll discuss briefly about that. 🧱 Simulating layers of refraction: For this kind of rendering, you need some way to render the backfaces before rendering the front. And the backfaces that are rendered may contain whatever data you'd like for additional processing in the layer front-facing mesh render. 🧪 Examples: You could render the back face as a glass shader of its own, as an intermediate step after _CameraOpaqueTexture. Then you sample this texture instead and you end up with multi-layered refraction, "just like that". You can also render the back normals only, via a fully opaque shader, and use that to manually account for that during the front render. You could even bake in data needed for thickness in realtime. 🛠️ Without making it complicated for yourself, the most straightforward method is via render textures, and you can easily set some fractional resolution. Cameras in Unity have an open slot for target textures to render to. You can use custom render textures to process _SelfTexture2D. ⏱️ It's great to do low-resolution processing for more complex tasks, like blurring and caustics. You can get massive performance boosts, considering the square law and number of pixels/fragments that need calculations (quadratic scaling). 🚧 I've not fully exploited the possibilities myself, but research/development with PRISM is ongoing!

Mirza Beig

61,581 views • 1 year ago

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Mark Zuckerberg on how much screen time he actually allows his own kids "It's different for the different ones. We don't just let them do whatever, but I actually want them to be fluent with this stuff. I want them to learn how to code, how to use technology, because a lot of socialization happens online at this point. People need to get used to the norms around that" "They're still too young to be using social media, but they have Messenger Kids, so they can video chat and chat with their friends, and we monitor to make sure they're connecting with the people we think they should" "I think it's good if you have an engaged parent and, as a child, you grow up learning how to use this stuff"

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Jaynit

57,388 views • 1 month ago

ALRIGHT! Introducing SEEDTHREE! A Three.js webgpu procedural plant generator. I'm releasing this fully open source. I built this with Claude Fable and GPT-5.5 Codex + gptimage2 over just the past few days. The best part is: given the code, your agents can add new plants to it all you want! They just need an understanding of the code and an image generator capable of creating material maps. I highly encourage you to do PRs for any extra plants you add! I'll be adding more myself in future versions. The system is fully robust: it provides complete LOD and billboards/imposters generation for the plants and you can adjust the detail levels all you want for different platform targets like mobile and/or use lower LODs as your main for extreme optimization. As this is the first release alpha version, some bugs may have been missed, I encourage you to report any bugs. The repo includes all the assets for the scenery world too, even the ambient sounds of birds and wind! This is targeted at high end laptop and PC use, it requires baking generated geometry, so you won't be using this on a phone (I mean, feel free to try, but I doubt it'll run well, lol). This is fundamentally an asset generation tool for 3d dev. Have fun! Github repo link and live demo (you don't even have to download anything for basic non-editing/contributing use!) below ⤵️

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Utah teapot 🫖

29,821 views • 3 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg: the whole industry treats AI agents as a single-player game but the real unlock is agents interacting with each other, which Meta has been running internally "Right now I think most of the industry is thinking about agents as like a single player game, right? It's like you have your agent and you use it." "And there are going to be all these interesting things that basically you can do by having the agents interact with each other." "And we already have all these interesting examples internally where people have their agents interacting with each other." "This isn't, like, for the most part rolling out in this release, but it's going to be like an important part of how I think this works over time. As more of the people who you know start using Muse, it just gets better."

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2,275,318 views • 1 month ago

I’m blown away by the quality of the landing pages that Opus 5 can create in Three.js. Prompting it with "orbit using mouse" is enough to create a 3D parallax effect. The same goes for "add particles to pointer." It’s like creating a living, breathing world. More prompts I used: - Add a butterfly that flies to the branch and flies away when I mouse over it. - During the intro, first load a wireframe of the branches, similar to the field-scanning effect in Death Stranding. - Add a scan effect to the card images while they load. Then I asked it to use the shader buttons and nav bar I made in previous projects. As explained in my last video, I started with an inspiration and the prompt, “Recreate this in Three.js in a single HTML file. Self-verify until perfect.” Opus 5 ran for two hours. All the code is less than 1 MB. Inspiration: Let me know if I should open-source this.

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Meng To

535,565 views • 2 months ago

I made tons of money building websites for people and small companies. Most of that is now gone. You can now generate, customize, and deploy a website using natural language. I recorded myself building a site from scratch using 10Web.io. 4 minutes later, I had a full website generated just for me. Crazy! That's mostly how I paid rent when I graduated college: I'd either build you a new site or make changes to an existing one. It's nuts anyone can do that today by just asking. But this doesn't stop with generating a website. 10Web also released an AI Copilot that you can use to edit a website with a chat-based AI assistant. Here is what you can do with the AI Copilot: 1. You can edit individual elements and widgets on your site by selecting them and describing the changes you want. 2. You can generate new images, create sections, and generate or edit text. 3. You can also add any new elements to the site. The best way to understand how much progress we've made is by looking at the AI Copilot in action: And the funny part is that we are just figuring out how to use AI models. 2025 will be crazy.

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57,967 views • 1 year ago

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kshitij vaze

25,201 views • 1 year ago

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel laureate, says the AGI definition the industry uses is too low a bar. His Einstein test: train a system on a 1901 knowledge cutoff and ask it to invent special relativity. "The human brain is the only existence proof we have that general intelligence is even possible." "That's a pretty high bar, and it means that it's probably higher bar than just being able to do some useful economic work." "The type of test I would have is like an Einstein test of, you know, let's train one of these systems with a 1901 knowledge cutoff. Can it invent special relativity like Einstein did in 1905?" "What you'd actually want is something a future version of AlphaGo to be able to invent Go, right? Invent a game as deep and as complex and elegant and as beautiful as Go, not just come up with a strategy within the game." "I don't think today's systems are yet capable of doing that, but I think they will be able to in the future." - Demis Hassabis (Demis Hassabis), CEO of Google DeepMind, on The Next Big Thing.

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel laureate, says the AGI definition the industry uses is too low a bar. His Einstein test: train a system on a 1901 knowledge cutoff and ask it to invent special relativity. "The human brain is the only existence proof we have that general intelligence is even possible." "That's a pretty high bar, and it means that it's probably higher bar than just being able to do some useful economic work." "The type of test I would have is like an Einstein test of, you know, let's train one of these systems with a 1901 knowledge cutoff. Can it invent special relativity like Einstein did in 1905?" "What you'd actually want is something a future version of AlphaGo to be able to invent Go, right? Invent a game as deep and as complex and elegant and as beautiful as Go, not just come up with a strategy within the game." "I don't think today's systems are yet capable of doing that, but I think they will be able to in the future." - Demis Hassabis (Demis Hassabis), CEO of Google DeepMind, on The Next Big Thing.

Karl Mehta

73,332 views • 2 months ago

This guy is over it with all the unnecessary apps and “smart” everything. He bought a light bulb that wants him to download an app just to turn it on. Then he goes off about appliances that beep like they just landed on the moon, fridges with iPad screens, and how ridiculous passwords have gotten. He’s basically saying we’ve overcomplicated everything for no reason. A lot of people are feeling this way lately. Do you think we’ve gone too far with smart technology and apps, or do you like having everything connected? I think it's gotten out of control as well.

This guy is over it with all the unnecessary apps and “smart” everything. He bought a light bulb that wants him to download an app just to turn it on. Then he goes off about appliances that beep like they just landed on the moon, fridges with iPad screens, and how ridiculous passwords have gotten. He’s basically saying we’ve overcomplicated everything for no reason. A lot of people are feeling this way lately. Do you think we’ve gone too far with smart technology and apps, or do you like having everything connected? I think it's gotten out of control as well.

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25,694 views • 4 months ago

To me, it's an unserious roster right now -- no bigs outside of Gobert and Beringer. If they roll into the season with this group, it will be spun as "unconventional" or "where the game is moving" or "loading...". But in reality, it would just be unserious for a team with title aspirations to have the starting power forward be Ayo Dosunmu (a PG last year) or Trey Lyles (not in the NBA last year). Could be fun. Wouldn't be serious. However... if they do trade some combination of Green/DiVincenzo/Shannon for a legitimate 4, then I think it's fair to say the Wolves have improved as much as anyone in the West this summer. And that's with no LeBron.

To me, it's an unserious roster right now -- no bigs outside of Gobert and Beringer. If they roll into the season with this group, it will be spun as "unconventional" or "where the game is moving" or "loading...". But in reality, it would just be unserious for a team with title aspirations to have the starting power forward be Ayo Dosunmu (a PG last year) or Trey Lyles (not in the NBA last year). Could be fun. Wouldn't be serious. However... if they do trade some combination of Green/DiVincenzo/Shannon for a legitimate 4, then I think it's fair to say the Wolves have improved as much as anyone in the West this summer. And that's with no LeBron.

Dane Moore

85,138 views • 2 months ago

People have been asking to see a clip of me using my BCI. So here's a little clip of me throwing together the simplest of beats with Logic Pro. It's been five years since I have used this software regularly, and frankly I'm out of practice, there have been a lot of updates, and I'm going to need to do a little bit of learning and catch up to be able to use it as effectively as I'd like. But for slapping together a simple sloppy beat for the first time in five years, I like it. Also, I trail off in the middle of the first or second sentence. We're just going to slap... "something sloppy together" is the part that was in my head and I should have said out loud. Love you guys. Thanks for the love. Be good, do good. I'm not anywhere near as good at using the social medias as Audrey Audrey Crews is but maybe someday I'll get there. #Neuralink #BCI #cyberpunk #drumming

People have been asking to see a clip of me using my BCI. So here's a little clip of me throwing together the simplest of beats with Logic Pro. It's been five years since I have used this software regularly, and frankly I'm out of practice, there have been a lot of updates, and I'm going to need to do a little bit of learning and catch up to be able to use it as effectively as I'd like. But for slapping together a simple sloppy beat for the first time in five years, I like it. Also, I trail off in the middle of the first or second sentence. We're just going to slap... "something sloppy together" is the part that was in my head and I should have said out loud. Love you guys. Thanks for the love. Be good, do good. I'm not anywhere near as good at using the social medias as Audrey Audrey Crews is but maybe someday I'll get there. #Neuralink #BCI #cyberpunk #drumming

P8•N1CK

24,390 views • 1 year ago

After spending quite a bit of time with Gears of War: E-Day, I’ve found that, aside from the usual UE5 traversal and shader compilation stutters, which can’t be avoided. there are other factors behind the poor frame-time consistency that can be mitigated. The game is pretty demanding on system resources, and pushing the CPU close to its maximum FPS limit can result in a messy frame time graph, as shown in the first example. To prevent this, stay GPU-limited as much as possible either by raising the rendering resolution or increasing some of the more demanding settings. Another thing worth trying is disabling Nvidia Reflex. This has become an issue in the majority of games, especially those using Unreal Engine 5. The impact varies depending on the system, so it’s worth turning it off to see if frame time consistency improves.

After spending quite a bit of time with Gears of War: E-Day, I’ve found that, aside from the usual UE5 traversal and shader compilation stutters, which can’t be avoided. there are other factors behind the poor frame-time consistency that can be mitigated. The game is pretty demanding on system resources, and pushing the CPU close to its maximum FPS limit can result in a messy frame time graph, as shown in the first example. To prevent this, stay GPU-limited as much as possible either by raising the rendering resolution or increasing some of the more demanding settings. Another thing worth trying is disabling Nvidia Reflex. This has become an issue in the majority of games, especially those using Unreal Engine 5. The impact varies depending on the system, so it’s worth turning it off to see if frame time consistency improves.

BenchmarKing

23,658 views • 7 days ago

Live Link: Source Code: While updating my website, I found an old project that was broken and decided to bring it back to life using WebGPU + TSL in #threejs. I’ve always loved Predator. The first time I saw the Predator cloak effect, I knew I wanted to learn visual effects and make them part of my professional life. Turn the sound on — it makes the experience much more fun 😅 This is also a great exercise if you’re learning TSL and want to experiment with glass, dispersion, IOR, and custom shaders. Both the classic shader version and the new TSL version are included in the repo so you can compare the approaches side by side. Hope it’s useful. Don’t forget to ⭐ the GitHub repo! #r3f #threejsJourney

Live Link: Source Code: While updating my website, I found an old project that was broken and decided to bring it back to life using WebGPU + TSL in #threejs. I’ve always loved Predator. The first time I saw the Predator cloak effect, I knew I wanted to learn visual effects and make them part of my professional life. Turn the sound on — it makes the experience much more fun 😅 This is also a great exercise if you’re learning TSL and want to experiment with glass, dispersion, IOR, and custom shaders. Both the classic shader version and the new TSL version are included in the repo so you can compare the approaches side by side. Hope it’s useful. Don’t forget to ⭐ the GitHub repo! #r3f #threejsJourney

Anderson Mancini

14,095 views • 2 months ago

$🧑‍🏫 How to make a glass/refraction shader: 🍷 Refraction will ultimately have the effect that whatever is behind your mesh should appear distorted by the surface of the mesh itself. We're not going for external caustics projection, just modelling glass-like, distorting "transparency". 🌆 In Unity, you can sample the *global* _CameraOpaqueTexture (make sure it's enabled in your URP asset settings), which is what your scene looks like rendered without any transparent objects. In Shader Graph, you can simply use the Scene Colour node. 🔢 The UVs required for this texture are the normalized screen coordinates, so if we offset/warp/distort these coordinates and sample the texture, we ultimately produce a distorted image. We can offset the UVs by some normal map, as well as a refraction vector based on the direction from the camera -> the vertex/fragment (flip viewDir, which is otherwise vertex/fragment -> camera) and normals of the object. 📸 Input the (reversed) world space view direction and normal into HLSL refract. **Convert the refraction direction vector to tangent space before adding it to the screen UV.** Use the result to sample _CameraOpaqueTexture. refract(-worldViewDirection, worldNormal, eta); eta -> refraction ratio (from_IOR / to_IOR), > for air, 1.0 / indexOfRefraction (IOR). IOR of water = 1.33, glass = 1.54... 💡 You can also do naive "looks about right" hacks: fresnel -> normal from grayscale, which can be used for distortion. Or distort it any other way (without even specifically using refract at all), really... 🧠 Thus, even if your object is rendered as a transparent type (and vanilla Unity URP will require that it is), it is fully 'opaque' (max alpha), but it renders on its surface what is behind it, using the screen UV. If you distort those UVs by the camera view and normals of the surface it will be rendered on, it then appears like refractive glass on that surface. > Transparent render queue, but alpha = 1.0.$

🧑‍🏫 How to make a glass/refraction shader: 🍷 Refraction will ultimately have the effect that whatever is behind your mesh should appear distorted by the surface of the mesh itself. We're not going for external caustics projection, just modelling glass-like, distorting "transparency". 🌆 In Unity, you can sample the global _CameraOpaqueTexture (make sure it's enabled in your URP asset settings), which is what your scene looks like rendered without any transparent objects. In Shader Graph, you can simply use the Scene Colour node. 🔢 The UVs required for this texture are the normalized screen coordinates, so if we offset/warp/distort these coordinates and sample the texture, we ultimately produce a distorted image. We can offset the UVs by some normal map, as well as a refraction vector based on the direction from the camera -> the vertex/fragment (flip viewDir, which is otherwise vertex/fragment -> camera) and normals of the object. 📸 Input the (reversed) world space view direction and normal into HLSL refract. Convert the refraction direction vector to tangent space before adding it to the screen UV. Use the result to sample _CameraOpaqueTexture. refract(-worldViewDirection, worldNormal, eta); eta -> refraction ratio (from_IOR / to_IOR), > for air, 1.0 / indexOfRefraction (IOR). IOR of water = 1.33, glass = 1.54... 💡 You can also do naive "looks about right" hacks: fresnel -> normal from grayscale, which can be used for distortion. Or distort it any other way (without even specifically using refract at all), really... 🧠 Thus, even if your object is rendered as a transparent type (and vanilla Unity URP will require that it is), it is fully 'opaque' (max alpha), but it renders on its surface what is behind it, using the screen UV. If you distort those UVs by the camera view and normals of the surface it will be rendered on, it then appears like refractive glass on that surface. > Transparent render queue, but alpha = 1.0.

Mirza Beig

125,253 views • 1 year ago