Learn all about vertex and tessellation shaders and create a wave shader in this latest installment of my Unity shader code series! With tessellation, you can increase the number of vertices on the fly, making vertex displacement effects look nicer! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Surw...

With the depth buffer, Unity is able to draw things in the correct order. We can use depth in shaders to create many effects, including silhouettes and x-ray vision! Learn all about it in my tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wa6...

Learn all about transparency in code-based shaders in the third part of my Unity beginner series! With transparent objects, you need to sort objects back-to-front and blend their colors with the existing screen contents using an alpha value. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmgY...

I've been catching up on written versions of my shader tutorials on my website and I'm finally up to date, starting with my recreation of the Recall rune from Tears of the Kingdom here: danielilett.com/2025-10-11-t...

I just released Part 2 of my Shader Code Basics series, which is all about texturing and UV coordinates! Textures give you a ton of control, so they're a fundamental building block for most of the shaders you'll write. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwHp...

I'm starting a new tutorial series about writing HLSL shader code with Unity! There's lots that you can do with code that Shader Graph still doesn't support, but this first part focuses on an unlit color shader - the shader version of Hello World. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMWr...

I just released another beginner tutorial for Unity Shader Graph, focusing on post process filters. Learn how to create a basic greyscale filter and a color- and normal-based outline effect! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpVW...

I just released Snapshot Shaders 2, a follow-up to my post processing asset pack! Alongside revamped effects and brand new filters, you can now mask out every effect based on layer masks. assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx...

I published a bundle of all of my shaders on the Unity Asset Store, so you can get my retro, hologram, post processing, and toon effects, plus extra shader tools, for a reduced cost. I'll be adding new packs to the bundle in the future too! assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx...

Over the last week, I've rewritten my website, danielilett.com, from scratch. It's faster, cleaner, sleeker than before, and navigation should be much better. I hope you'll give it a look and maybe learn something about shaders!

You can grab my Retro Shaders Pro asset pack for a pretty hefty discount right now! For just a couple of dollars, you'll get a bunch of PS1, N64, CRT, and VHS-inspired shaders: wobbly textures, vertex snapping, low resolutions. assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx...

Has anyone come up with a second-order grading company that rates the quality of the plastic enclosures for graded cards? Like "this is only a PSA 4 PSA 10 Charizard, the card is offset inside the box by 1mm"? Call it a Collateralized Deck Obligation.

It's out now! Learn how to make holographic foil cards with parallax layers just like this one using Shader Graph and URP in Unity! ✨ www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-if...

Here's a little look at the holographic card shader I've been working on - I'm hoping to get a tutorial video finished and released over the weekend! ✨

I just released a new asset pack, Shader Toolbox for Unity URP! It comes with a bunch of new shaders, subgraphs for Shader Graph, and my favorite feature: a way to see transparent objects in effects which use the camera texture! 📦 Get it here: assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx...

A sneak peak of a shader tutorial I've been working on lately: holographic trading cards 🪿

This seller knows what's up

Unity Shader Graph still doesn't officially support terrains, but you *can* read texture data from the terrain and combine the texture layers yourself. In this tutorial, I do just that, then make a system to automatically draw cliffs and add a world scan effect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0to...

I've had lots of great feedback and you've given me so many cool shader ideas! If you missed it, I'm planning on giving keys to my asset packs to a lucky few people who respond to the poll, so make sure you get your responses in!

I'm looking for feedback to know what kinds of shaders I should talk about on my YouTube channel in the future! I'm also giving away free copies of my asset packs to a few lucky respondents - please check out the form here: forms.gle/S68WYnywZwph...

I'm also working a collection of Shader Graph stuff based on some previous work! I'm adding all-new options and settings, plus fancy editor windows for each effect.

Working on a feature for Retro Shaders Pro that lets you apply the CRT effect to any regular mesh! Should support basically all the same parameters as the screen effect version.

You can get all of my shader asset packs in this ULTIMATE bundle for a pretty nice discount here! I'm planning on adding future assets to the bundle, so that discount's only gonna get ultimater over time. itch.io/s/145936/ult...

I finally watched Blade Runner 2049 today (great movie!) and I'm not surprised in the slightest to learn it's the same director and composer as Dune.

Toon Shaders Pro, my asset pack full of cel shading and outline effects, just went live on the Unity Asset Store! It's 50% off for the next two weeks: assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx...

Need a shader for your game? You can grab my bundle of four shader packs right now for a ~28% discount! Act fast, because you only have 75 years (itch doesn't support permanent bundles): itch.io/s/145936/ult...

Learn how to recreate the Recall rune visuals from Tears of the Kingdom in Unity using a post processing effect in this tutorial video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygSN...

My newest shader asset pack, Toon Shaders Pro, is now out! Control your game's lighting to look cel-shaded, and apply customizable outlines to specific object layers for a stylized effect. danielilett.itch.io/toon-shaders...

I kind of wasn't planning on letting my youtube channel fall off the face of the planet, and I am working on stuff (the Zelda TotK Recall video and mayyyybe a holographic card shader), it's just taking a little while!

I've had a sudden uptick in really weird/terrible/funny promo emails from people who clearly don't understand any of my values, like no I actually don't want to encourage people to mint their shaders onto the blockchain lmao???

Working on a graph version of my toon shader and I love this absolute bastard of a custom node that I made, I kind of feel dirty

If I had any knowledge at all about writing browser plugins and more time on my hands, I'd probably write something that detects Honey changing referral cookies and just, like, change them back

"Great minds think alike": dusty, old saying, relic of the past "Silly geese honk in unison": whimsical, humble, makes me think of geese

Been working on a new toon shader in Unity and I have FINALLY got per-object outlines on specific layers. I tried this months ago and kept hitting roadblocks. Behold my army of Blender default monkeys!

Did a little update for my post processing asset pack to get it working with Unity 6! You can check it out it here: danielilett.itch.io/snapshot-sha...

I didn't really need another reason to dislike Funko Pop but taking down itch.io with AI is a wild left turn I wasn't really expecting, I love the future

Would you still love me if I fused my consciousness with a worm and ruled the galaxy as a tyrant for 3000 years?

I love when I'm reading up about a gamedev thing and it transparently reads like chatgpt, and then I scroll down to the bottom of the page and the website offers "NFT and web3 services", then I notice the blog author is "admin", they're not even subtle

honk #geese (also swans)

my painting of geese watching a meteor 🪿💚