Physically Based Shader Development for Unity 2017 Develop Custom Lighting Systems /

• Main Author: Doppioslash, Claudia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Computer games-Programming.; Computer programming.; Computer graphics.; Game Development.; Programming Techniques.; Computer Graphics.

Benefit from the latest rendering tech developments, currently covered only in papers and talks from Siggraph, in a way any developer or technical artist using Unity can take advantage of. This book starts by introducing how shader programming works in general, the common principles of different pla...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: How Shader Development Works
• Chapter 2: Your first Unity Shader
• Chapter 3: Your first Lighting Unity shader
• Chapter 4: What is Physically Based Shading?
• Chapter 5: Your first Physically Based Shader
• Chapter 6: Your first Image Effect
• Chapter 7: HDR, Tone Mapping and Color Grading
• Chapter 8: The Ethology of BRDFs
• Chapter 9: The Implementation of BRDFs
• Chapter 10: Approximate your BRDFs
• Chapter 11: How the Standard Shader works
• Chapter 12: The Unity Standard Shader Subsystems, and What They Can Do for You
• Chapter 13: Hooking into the Unity Shader Subsystems
• Chapter 14: Reflections and Cube Maps
• Chapter 15: Making Shaders Artists Will Use
• Chapter 16: Code Complexity and Ubershaders
• Chapter 17: When Shading Goes Wrong, Check The Models
• Chapter 18: Resources to Keep Up with the Bleeding Edge, and How to Read Them.