Unity and Game Development links (July 15th 2019)

Alexander Ameye made a tutorial about edge detection shaders with Shader Graph and how to use some Lightweight Rendering Pipeline customization to generate DepthNormals (Edge Detection Shader).

Render Textures are stored and handled on the GPU, which means we can’t access the data from them in a C# script which runs on the CPU – and you shouldn’t really need to for most effects. However, I wanted my player to be able to interact with water which was based on a Render Texture and only spawn particles if the player was in the water, along with some other effects.

What happens when you put 700+ people from Unity and our ecosystem in a secluded location once a year and tell them to solve hard tech, coding, and process problems? Their instructions? Unleash your creativity, collaborate like crazy, and embrace diverse perspectives.

This year at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Unity showed up as the leading real-time 3D creation platform.

Garrexus made a breakdown on the Screen space Cosmic shader (Screen space Cosmic shader breakdown (Unity/ASE, Shaders/Textures included)).

Alexander Ameye again, now with a tutorial about collision effect (Collision Effect).

A number of judges evaluated all of the impressive submissions to pick the winners of the latest Asset Store challenge: Use Substance Painter to texture stunning assets that expand the futuristic world of Buried Memories: Yggdrasil.

Ray tracing hardware acceleration (RTX) is a newly available feature that allows graphics developers to increase their image quality. While solving complex problems, properly integrating this new set of APIs (DXR and Vulkan ray tracing) in a game engine is tricky, especially so when the engine supports anything from mobile to virtual production.

Brackeys published a video about gamepad input (CONTROLLER INPUT in Unity!).