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Where to start if someone knows nothing about shaders?

Discussion in 'Shaders' started by hsparra, Sep 15, 2005.

  1. hsparra

    hsparra

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    I know nothing about shaders, but am interested in learning. Where is the best place to start? Should I learn OpenGL first, or some other path works better (ie. faster :) )?
     
  2. Jonathan Czeck

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    Have you checked out the tutorial yet?
    file:///Applications/Unity/Documentation/Manual/ShaderTut1.html

    -Jon
     
  3. David-Helgason

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  4. David-Helgason

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    You're fast aarku :)

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  5. hsparra

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    Doh! Thank you for the reply. Somehow I did not see the references. I guess what I am looking for is background type information. I will look at the 2 links in Tutorial 1 first so I can hopefully ask some semi-intelligable questions. Currently, I do not know enough to know what to ask. All I know, or think I know, is that shaders look powerful and are they way to get additional "special" effects in Unity; and that I want to learn how to be able to think of an effect, and then be able to go about creating the effect.