Unity Shader Graph Beginner Tutorial 2026
Complete step-by-step guide to creating custom shaders with Unity Shader Graph.
Complete step-by-step guide to creating custom shaders with Unity Shader Graph.
You will turn one wooden crate into a Chaos destructible, decide what deserves real simulation and what you should fake, and learn to spot when the editor is struggling before your game does. Chaos is the physics system in Unreal Engine 5. When you tick a box to make a mesh fall, roll, or bounce,…
Professional audio setup using FMOD in both engines.
Unity and Godot can both carry a solo game from a blank project to an export. They do not ask the same things of you. This is a decision guide, not a scoreboard. There is no honest universal frame-rate winner, because your scene, your hardware, and your own code dominate any engine slogan. The goal…
Keep your GML Visual actions readable as your GameMaker project grows, with clear names, one job per function, a folder habit, and notes that let future you follow the logic. Your first graph was easy to read. A key press opened a door, and you could see the whole thing on one screen. Then you…
You will build one guard NPC that patrols, notices the player, gives chase, and gives up, in both Unity and Godot, then learn where a language model fits for dialogue and how to keep the game playable when it is missing. When people say “AI NPC” today, they often mean a chatbot in a character…
You will learn what a shader is in plain terms, then build one lit material in Shader Graph with a color, a smoothness control that varies across the surface, and a glowing rim you can see move as the camera turns. Shader Graph can look like a wall of boxes and wires the first time…