Official New Node Reference Samples

Wow, this is great! I've been watching quite a few of your Youtube tutorials, Ben, and it's helped me a lot in my first steps understanding shaders! This is a resource I've been looking for for a long time! Hope Unity chooses to do something similar for the VFX Graph too

 

This is an absolute win, I've been lazy to read shader graph's documentation mainly because it's a little "boring", having the explanation of each node visualized with examples makes memorizing shader graph so much more easier, the moment I saw the blog I knew Ben is probably the one behind it, thank you for your work at Unity and at your personal channel, it's incredibly helpful!

Small request, a tutorial about Surface Gradient Bump Mapping would be huge.

 

This is amazing. I already learned a lot from just few sample images from blog post.
I didn't know dot can be used to desaturate color!?
Can't wait to dive into it on the weekend. Especially because this stuff is good foundation knowledge that apply to other engine as well.
Credit where it due. Good job team. Really appreciate these 'tech from trench' blog posts.

 

How do we add the new "node reference samples" to 2021.3 LTS with ShaderGraph version12.1.12.

 

Same question for 2023.1.20; I only can see the "Procedural Patterns".

 

I have Unity 2022.3.3f1 and Shader Graph 14.0.8 and I can't see the samples.

EDIT:
OK, Unity 2022.3.13 is needed.

 

@BenCloward I appreciate the quality of these examples; they are indeed excellent.

I'd like to propose an idea for streamlining the workflow. Rather than packaging these as a separate sample set, could you consider a functionality where a double-click on the primary base node opens a read-only version containing these examples. This approach would ensure that these resources are readily available to all users, irrespective of their sample import status, enhancing accessibility and user experience.

 

how about 2023.1 or 2023.2 ? Will it be available there, too? 2023.3 is still alpha.

 

This sounds great, however the total lack of a starting point for a lit shader was the previous main problem for Shader Graph. Can you start from a complete lit graph layout (URP or HDRP lit shader equivalent with exact same inputs) yet?!
Question - URP Lit Shader in Shader Graph - Unity Forum

 

Thanks for the pickup! Templates look like thing missing.
Been away from shader graph for a while but,
in my case I might want a material much the same as a standard lit one but with some minor difference - tri-planar etc. texturing, some additional effect on top... So in this instance I want to create a shader 90% like a Lit (or unlit) shader but add or change a part of the graph.

Currently I have to (afaik):
1. re-create the nodes in the Blackboard for common inputs (not every one, but I want same names so I can use standard code to apply properties in script on all materials). You can edit the shader of a standard material to get the reference names! Not sure Shader graph helps you there
2. Put them in the graph and connect it up - bit of a guess
3. Add/change portions of graph

I don't know how complex a complete recreation of the Lit shader as a graph is (perhaps at least limit to 1 template per Material type!) - but any starting point with the most common nodes setup, something between inputs and fragment shader would be a good start thanks!

 

Hi.

Node reference samples are great resources for learning Shader Graph and shading self.
But I've found some issues of them.
For example, there are some misspellings on their description note...

White Balance Node:
"Tempurature adjusts the data on a gradient between cool (cyan)"
> Temperature

Not Node:
"The Node Node inverts the boolean input value"
> Not Node

UV Node:
"The UV node bring's the mesh's ..."
> brings
( Normal Vector Node has same issue)

Sample Texture 2D Node:
"Contect a Sampler State node to the Sampler input port ..."
maybe "Connect" ?

Degree to Radians Node:
"This node is useful because rotation values in degrees are often more intutive to understand as inputs for artists"
> intuitive
"but the trig math functions generally expect inputs in radians"
what means "trig"?

Length Node : (in Length and Distance Group)
"Mesauring the length of the View Vector or finding the distance"
> Measuring

Posterize Node:
"The Posterize Node converts a continuos gradient into a set of uniform steps"
> continuous

Power Node (Adjusting Image Contrast)
"Sine Time provides us with a continuos wave between -1 and 1."
> continuous

Is Front Face Node:
"The Is Front Face Node returns true if the current rederring face is pointing toward the camera"
> rendering
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Because I am not native in English, I'm not confident about these issues.
So please check them.

And there are some confusing descriptions.

And Node:
This description maybe wrong.
Even though AND only returns True when A and B are both true,
this description suggests AND node returns True when both value are same.

Nand Node:
This node has also wrong description.
Nand only returns false when both is true.

Cross Product Node:
sticky note is just slightly small height. This is very slightly, not problem.
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These are issues what I noticed.
So I don't know where I should report, I list up them here.

 

>Thank you very much for your help.
You're welcome!

>That's short for trigonometry...
Thank you for explanations of details.

Shader Graph is really authentic tool.
I hope it will be more convenient!

 

Degrees are easier to understand for many programmers too!

 

Unity needed this many years ago... anyways, this can be useful... i like it...

You are that guy from YouTube @BenCloward! your youtube channel is pretty useful and great, i have many tutorials on my bookmarks.

 

I just wanted to quickly come here and thank you guys for the quality resources and examples.

Historically I've noticed that it's been very hard to get great hands on examples of shadergraph. However it seems you guys are really starting to put out more interactive and useful examples / demos of unity features and I'm really keen on it.

Having these interactive things, especially with all the notes, links and features will help people better understand the core concepts (and in turn we'll get better games out of it)

Really interested to see what more examples, tutorials and breakdowns you guys will be releasing in the coming months.

Keep up the good work

 

I just want to share my appreciation for this really awesome sample!
I love how the scene is set up with all the clear examples and excellent documentation, thanks for making it!