Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In this shader tutorial, we take a look at the Length & Distance nodes in Unreal5 and Unity3d. First, I go over their basic functions and then I show 3 examples of how to use the length and distance nodes in a shader.

Here's last week's video on advanced the Smoothstep node:
youtu.be/dn3y5KVxylQ

And here's the playlist for the whole series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78XDi0TS4lEBWa2Hpzg2SRC5njCcKydl

Resources on the web:
docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@10.0/manual/Distance-Node.html
docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@10.0/manual/Length-Node.html
thebookofshaders.com/glossary/?search=smoothstep
thebookofshaders.com/glossary/?search=length
thebookofshaders.com/glossary/?search=distance

Shader Book Recommendations
bencloward.com/resources_books.shtml
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Theme Music
Peace in the Circuitry - Glitch Hop
teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1526

Background Music
Speo - The Little Things
youtube.com/watch?v=aoc9v_TRBqc

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