Unity 5.x Shaders and Effects Cookbook

1: Creating Your First Shader
Introduction
Creating a basic Standard Shader
Migrating Legacy Shaders from Unity 4 to Unity 5
Adding properties to a shader
Using properties in a Surface Shader

2: Surface Shaders and Texture Mapping
Introduction
Diffuse shading
Using packed arrays
Adding a texture to a shader
Scrolling textures by modifying UV values
Normal mapping
Creating a transparent material
Creating a Holographic Shader
Packing and blending textures
Creating a circle around your terrain

3: Understanding Lighting Models
Introduction
Creating a custom diffuse lighting model
Creating a Toon Shader
Creating a Phong Specular type
Creating a BlinnPhong Specular type
Creating an Anisotropic Specular type

4: Physically Based Rendering in Unity 5
Introduction
Understanding the metallic setup
Adding transparency to PBR
Creating mirrors and reflective surfaces
Baking lights in your scene

5: Vertex Functions
Introduction
Accessing a vertex color in a Surface Shader
Animating vertices in a Surface Shader
Extruding your models
Implementing a snow shader
Implementing a volumetric explosion

6: Fragment Shaders and Grab Passes
Introduction
Understanding Vertex and Fragment Shaders
Using grab pass
Implementing a Glass Shader
Implementing a Water Shader for 2D games

7: Mobile Shader Adjustment
Introduction
What is a cheap shader?
Profiling your shaders
Modifying our shaders for mobile

8: Screen Effects with Unity Render Textures
Introduction
Setting up the screen effects script system
Using brightness, saturation, and contrast with screen effects
Using basic Photoshop-like Blend modes with screen effects
Using the Overlay Blend mode with screen effects

9: Gameplay and Screen Effects
Introduction
Creating an old movie screen effect
Creating a night vision screen effect

10: Advanced Shading Techniques
Introduction
Using CgInclude files that are built into Unity
Making your shader world modular with CgInclude
Implementing a Fur Shader
Implementing heatmaps with arrays