There are two ways to accomplish a low poly, flat style in 3D graphics. The first is to modify the smoothing on the mesh so that normal’s aren’t smoothed out.

Time to dig into some custom lighting in Unity’s Surface Shaders. We’re going to be looking at how to cast shadows onto our planet ring shader, a transparent shader which normally would not have shadows.

Asteroids VR needs an asteroid belt so we’re going to make one! In this video we’re going to begin work on our basic ring shader which will be used for drawing the planetary ring of asteroids at a long distance.

Time to finish off our experiment into mesh displacement. We’re going to update our tessellation shader to actually take advantage of the displacement map we developed in the previous video.

Continuing on from yesterday we’re going to be exploring our Squishy Sphere Shader. Specifically, in this video we’ll be updating our shader to squish a bit better.

Today we’re going to be working with vertex shaders, specifically we’re going to be developing what I’m calling Squishy Sphere.

We’re going to extend our portal. Specifically we’ll be adding a cool new shader to the portal. The shader is going to have all kinds of fun stuff in it.

Let’s return to our flat shader. Today we’re going to be developing a perfect circle. At least, as perfect as we can make it.

Continuing with the perfect circle we were rendering let’s see what happens when we plug in other values! Specifically let’s plug in a sin wave and render that.

Let’s get back to work on our Fractal shaders! Specifically, let’s animate them. I’ve got an idea to use a subscriber based design so we can publish various “changes” to our material and dynamically update it.

Starting with a classic XNA pixel shader which can generate both Mandelbrot and Julia fractals lets convert that into a Unity Surface Shader we can use in our Unity projects.

This is an old concept I made years ago to experiment with heating a planet. I discontinued work on this specific concept shortly after recording this, the design was not a good one, but I think it’s still interesting.

Twinkle is an open world sandbox audiogame based around sound. The game is being developed as a part of the Audiogame Jam which is still in progress.

Lets pick our flat shader back up. First we need to refactor the code we wrote during Part 1.

It’s been a few months since I’ve played with shaders in Unity. Let’s relearn how to make them together by building a relatively simple shader in Unity from start to finish!