A Shader Graph enables you to build your shaders visually. Instead of hand writing code you create and connect nodes in a graph network. You can do things like:
- Procedurally alter your surface appearance
- Warp and animate UVs
- Modify the look of your objects using familiar image adjustment operations
- Change your object’s surface based on useful information about it, its world location, normals, distance from camera, etc.
- Expose to the material inspector what you think is important to edit for your shader
- Share node networks between multiple graphs and users by creating subgraphs
- Create your own custom shader graph nodes through C# and HLSL
The graph framework gives instant feedback on the changes, and it’s simple enough that new users can become involved in shader creation.
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