Custom Lighting Models - Episode 1 @BenCloward

Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Today we begin a new series of videos about custom lighting models. Usually when we make a shader, we just define the material properties - color, normal, smoothness, metallic, etc - but in the series of videos I'm going to show you how to define and customize the calculations that define how light interacts with the surface - including diffuse, specular, and ambient lighting.

Take a look at the playlist for the whole series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78XDi0TS4lGnGa7L2X4o3UV-XYZEKNwj

Shader Book Recommendations
bencloward.com/resources_books.shtml

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Theme Music
Peace in the Circuitry - Glitch Hop
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Background Music
Speo - The Little Things
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$Glass Shader - Advanced Materials - Episode 16 In this tutorial video for Unreal and Unity, I show how to create a glass shader - including reflections, refraction, transparency, tinting, and how to resolve sorting issues. Here are some other videos on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=527ZcxYnf_s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9npyBv6NII Heres last weeks video on creating optimizing Parallax Occlusion Mapping: https://youtu.be/8hThP-Yni_o Heres the playlist for all of the videos in the series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78XDi0TS4lGqHdLQGR2GHne85i9PebbN Shader Book Recommendations https://www.bencloward.com/resources_books.shtml Theme Music Peace in the Circuitry - Glitch Hop http://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1526 Background Music Speo - The Little Things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoc9v_TRBqc #UnrealEngine #shadergraph #Unity$

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