Introduction to surface shader writing in Unity

Uploaded October 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Part 1 - Introduction to surface shaders

In this introduction to writing surface shaders in unity tutorial we take a look at how shaders work in unity, how to write our own and how to create some cool effects.
We will be covering surface shaders using cgprogram (CG/HLSL), and shaderlab.
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