Vertex Displacement - Advanced Materials

Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

In this shader tutorial for Unreal and Unity, I show multiple techniques for moving vertices around in the vertex shader - scaling along the normal, sine wave animation, displacement using a height map, and even a simple technique for snow accumulation by only displacing vertices on the top of an object.

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Here's last week's tutorial on sampling textures in the vertex shader:
youtu.be/WWEcqsXD-hE

Here's the playlist for all of the videos in the series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78XDi0TS4lGqHdLQGR2GHne85i9PebbN

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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