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Sun Beams / God Rays Shader Breakdown

Using billboarded quads (or particles) to produce a god rays effect

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2D Water Shader Breakdown

A water shader intended for 2D, with pixelated highlights, distortion, reflections and simplified shoreline waves/ripples

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Ultraviolet Lights & Invisible Ink

Examples for revealing invisible objects (especially decals, such as fingerprints or hidden messages) based on lights, stencils and other masking methods

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Book (w/ Turnable Pages) Breakdown

A book with pages that flip/turn via vertex displacement, and selects a portion of a texture containing all pages.

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Rain Effects Breakdown

A few rain effects, including particles setup, and shaders for ripples in water/puddles and rain interacting with surfaces

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Waterfall Shader Breakdown

A waterfall shader that interacts with a sphere to part the flowing water. Uses a signed distance field and alpha clipping.

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Fractured Cube Breakdown

Uses a shader which displaces (scales/rotates) vertices of a prefractured mesh with pivots baked into UV maps

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Blender

Snowglobe Breakdown

Glass globe shader with background refraction & reflection. Particles are contained inside which inherit Rigidbody movements.

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Tentacle Shader Breakdown

A shader that uses vertex displacement to simulate a tentacle grabbing / wrapping around an object

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Tornado Shader Breakdown

A shader applied to a few layers of alpha-clipped scrolling noise, with vertex displacement to make it wobble

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