“It turns the dark and strange arts of shader programming into something understandable and non-evil”
Making a basic shader
This tutorial will go through how to create a basic shader with a tinted diffuse and a normal map
Gradients (Part 1, The Basics)
Creating the three basic types of gradients
Gradients (Part 2, Manipulation, Waves & Angular Healthbar)
Manipulating gradients, creating waveforms and finally, creating an angular healthbar
Gradients (Part 3, Color Ramps & Dissolve)
Creating color ramps and using it in a dissolve shader
Vertex color blending & UV tiling
This tutorial will show how you can use vertex colors to blend textures, and how to tile them
Custom Blinn-Phong
This tutorial will shed light on how to use the custom lighting functionality, in this case how to recreate the Blinn-Phong lighting model