Shaders and Technical Art

Create reusable 2D and 3D shader effects and integrate them safely with gameplay.

What you will learn

• Understand shader stages and uniforms
• Build common 2D and 3D effects
• Profile and package a reusable effects library

Course syllabus

1. 01
   What a shader does
2. 02
   GPU pipeline fundamentals
3. 03
   Shader types
4. 04
   CanvasItem shaders
5. 05
   UV coordinates
6. 06
   Colors and textures
7. 07
   Time-based effects
8. 08
   Outlines
9. 09
   Dissolves
10. 10
    Water and distortion
11. 11
    Screen-space concepts
12. 12
    Spatial shaders
13. 13
    Vertex processing
14. 14
    Fragment processing
15. 15
    Lighting functions
16. 16
    Shader uniforms
17. 17
    Shader-driven animation
18. 18
    Particle shaders
19. 19
    Integrating shaders with GDScript
20. 20
    Shader performance
21. 21
    Accessible visual effects
22. 22
    Building a reusable effect library