DrawMeshInstancedIndirect - FILES

A way to draw lots of stuff, fast.

SDF Shader - Cutaway Effect FILES

A simple setup to manipulate an SDF matrix with an object transformation. Here used for a cutaway effect.

Quads to Billboards FILES (Free)

Creating Camera FAcing Billboard Splats out of a boring old Quad Mesh.

Atmospheric Scattering Fog + Blur Masking FILES

A Maskable Blur. To blur your fog. Your depth. Or any arbitrary screen/world mask like lighting or shadows.

Environment Interaction Updated FILES

Updated the Environmental Interaction Files to be neater, and added in grass sway.

Interactive Ground Fog FILES

Interactive Ground Fog like in the Cap Kingdom of Mario Odyssey.

Fog of War Render Texture FILES

Creating a Fog of War (both unexplored and unobserverd levels) via a top down render texture.

Blood Stream Ribbons FILES

Using a ribbon on a particle system to create a blood spurt effect that colliders with geometry.

Flaming Sword Particles FILES

A simple way to create particles along a weapon mesh automatically when swung.

Bubble Popping Effect FILES (Free)

A dissolve shader on sphere meshes to create goopy mud/lava bubbles.

Render Texture Feedback FILES

Rendering a render texture on to itself to create a smeary feedback effect

Mesh Lights WRITEUP (Free)

An explanation of how the fake mesh lights work.

Mesh Lights 2 - Volume Projection FILES

Further exploration into fun effects with fake mesh light volumes.

Mesh Lights Texture Projection FILES

Adding texture projection to the fake mesh lights. Illuminating!

Fake Billboard Lights FILES

Faking Point lights with billboards. Thousands of Lights in Forward! MOAR LIGHTS

Toon Lighting WRITEUP + FILES (Free)

An explanation of a simple approach to Toon Lighting, and some interesting things you can do with it.

Smudgy Depth Aware Pixelization FILES

Pixels of different sizes living together in harmony. With some smudge and noise.

Fake Sphere Billboards FILES

Properly lit, perfeclty smooth sphere rendering on a quad.

Blurry Blob Variations (forward + deferred) FILES

Blobby Polygon variations. Smoke, Oil and Fire, made by command buffer blurring

Blobby Clouds and Liquids FILES

Blobby Polygon Clouds and Liquids made by blurring the GBuffer normals

Toon Eye FILES

A customisable eye shader. Put the highlight where you want it. + A version that uses zero textures.

Black Ice Triplanar Terrain FILES

An animated triplanar grid terrain shader for Black Ice.

Foliage Wind Movement FILES

A Simple approach to make leaves and grass move in the wind.

Glow via MaterialPorpertyBlock FILES (Free)

Changing lots of materials cheaply without creating material instances via Material Property Blocks

Hit Impact FILES

Flexible 'Breath of the Wild' inspired Hit Impact FX, spawned with a particle multi-emitter.

Post Process Outline FILES

Outline variations - colourful and jittery and all done via post processing.

Glow Dissolve FILES

Stolen (with love) from the Breath of the Wild teleportation effect.

Smoke LineRenderer FILES

A way to make dynamic Fire and Smoke trails that stay smooth in motion, without using particles.

Rain with blurry refractions FILES

Here's a rain shader that uses a blurred screen texture (done via a command buffer) to create a bloomed light refracting through the drops.

Electricity Line Renderer FILES

+ EXTRA FILES (super supporter)

I've put together a little script to make Zappy Zaps with LineRenderers.

Projectile Trails FILES

Here's a way to make smokey projectile trails It can be used for standard gunfire, lasers, and also a lighting gun type of effect.

Toonsplosion FILES

+ Original spiky mesh FILES

Chunky Polygonal Toon Explosions. Good for thick toon smoke as well.       

Community Requests FILES (Free)

Stencil particles. Gradient Texture Editors. Fog Volumes. Custom Vertex Streams.

Laser Scanning FILES

Two simple laser type effects. One like a laser sight using raycasts, and another that's more like a sci-fi sweep scanner.

Pulse Distortion Spheres FILES

Worldspace Pulse FILES

Flexible Pulse Scanning shader on a sphere - pops the rim and any geometry overlaps, with optional distortion.

Occlusion Fade near camera FILES (Free)

A good approach for stopping foliage, grass, and other objects from getting in the way of the camera is to fade them out via the camera depth.

Silhouette Light Plane FILES

A nice simple way to pop out the silhouette of a cave entrance or other level detail is to use a silhouette card to fill the area with a tint of light.

Weapon Trails with Cut Lines FILES

Using a stepped depth fade where a weapon trail meets underlying geometry to create a temporary 'cut line' .

Triplanar Toon Environment FILES

A triplanar environment toon shader with light wrapping and some other toon-shader features.

Saturated Toon Shader FILES

Toon Shader with rim light, coloured shadows, saturated edges etc.

Sketch Shader FILES

Sketchy shader, with cross hatched shadows, outlines (internal and external) and a matcap rimlight.

3D Skybox with huge world float fix WIP FILES

3D Skybox system with floating point imprecision workaround.

Transparency Shadows FILES

Rendering shadows on transparent surfaces is not trivial, but by rendering the water twice we can get around this.  

Coloured Shadows FILES

Using Shader Replacement we can add colour to the shadows as a post processing effect.

Jittery Outline FILES

Edge Breakup FILES

Using Shader Replacement for an edge breakup effect, and jittery outlines

2d Raymarched Smoke FILES

+ WRITEUP (Free)

Using UV offset by light direction you can fake lighting on flat smoke particles.

Environmental Interaction (water ripples) FILES

Using particles to create environmental interactions, like water ripples and mud/snow trails.

1 Layer (Fake Volumeric) Clouds FILES

+ WRITEUP

With another UV offset pass, we can fake the volumetric clouds shader with only a single layer.

Halftone object shader and image effect FILES

Here's a simple Half Tone shader, in both an image effect variation and a per object variation (the sphere in the middle).

Toon Fire FILES

+ WRITEUP

+ VIDEO

Using Shader Replacement to add an edge breakup and a jittery outlines as a post processing effect.

Ghost Shader FILES

+ WRITEUP

Rim light, refraction, and vertex wobble for an up and down bobbing done in shader.

Layered Volumetric Flouds FILES

+ More Optimised VR FILES

+ More Optimised Lite FILES

+ WRITEUP

+ VIDEO

Quad stack to create volumetric clouds.

Candle Flames and Wax FILES

+ WRITEUP

+ VIDEO

Single Quad flickering candle flames and a translucent wax shader.

Subsurface Scattering FILES

+ WRITEUP 1

+ WRITEUP 2

+ VIDEO

SSS with light control and a foliage version