Welcome to my three part lecture on shader coding for game devs 💖 I hope you'll find this useful in your game dev journey!

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00:00:00 - What are shaders?
00:03:00 - Case study/screenshots from FFXIV, Overwatch & more
00:37:42 - The Structure of a Shader
00:42:49 - Vertex shader
00:47:09 - Fragment shader
00:49:32 - Shader vs Material
00:51:29 - A first look at shader code
01:02:17 - Vertex Normals
01:06:17 - Interpolators
01:15:59 - Data types (fixed vs half vs float)
01:21:32 - Fragment shader output
01:24:31 - Swizzling
01:33:48 - Passing data from vertex shader to fragment shader
01:42:04 - Space transformation w. Matrices
01:47:07 - UV coordinates & manipulation
01:53:34 - Gradients
02:01:06 - Values outside of 0 to 1
02:09:20 - Triangle waves using math
02:12:04 - Preprocessor constants
02:25:28 - Pattern manipulation
02:31:48 - Blending Modes
02:39:42 - Depth buffer & depth testing (ZTest)
02:56:40 - Waves, ripples & vertex offsetting
03:12:07 - Textures
03:20:33 - World space coordinates
03:28:04 - Texture masking
03:37:33 - Isotropic mip maps
03:42:17 - Anisotropic mip maps
03:44:36 - Point vs bilinear vs trilinear filtering
03:49:54 - Final questions

Project Download & Assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h_7O9n5-q8Kb-rhnMJyF4Tab6i3lH97E4Ykn7tsP-zc

Originally streamed as a course for students at http://futuregames.se/, who were super kind to let me both stream this live as well as upload it here! so massive thanks to the people at FutureGames!!

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Shader Basics, Blending & Textures • Shaders for Game Devs [Part 1]

Continuing the geographical game journey with some performance improvements, bug fixes, graphical upgrades, and a variety of experiments.

If you'd like to try running the game in its current state, there's a free download available here:
https://sebastian.itch.io/geographical-adventures

The project source code is available over here: https://github.com/SebLague/Geographical-Adventures

If you'd like to support my work (and get early access to new videos and projects), please consider becoming a patron of the channel over here:
https://www.patreon.com/SebastianLague

Project playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFt_AvWsXl0dT82XMtKATYPcVIhpu2fh6

Referenced Videos:
Orbits video: https://youtu.be/7axImc1sxa0
Newton's method video (by 3Blue1Brown): https://youtu.be/-RdOwhmqP5s
Atmosphere video: https://youtu.be/DxfEbulyFcY

Music:
Born to Fly - Veaceslav Draganov
Falling Through the Hourglass - Sid Archarya
Horizon - Veaceslav Dragnaov
Living - Borrtex
Another Time Another Place - Sounds Like Sander
All in Good Time - Shimmer
A Tender Heart - The David Roy Collective
In the Kitchen of the Mountain King - Ikoliks
Hourglass - Shimmer
Amber - The Stolen Orchestra
Spread Your Wings - Evgeny Bardyuzha
After the Storm - We Dream of Eden
Gibbous - Michael FK
Orbit - Hans Johnson
Orbital Anomaly - Cody Martin
Falling Stars - Michael FK
Momentum - Borrtex
Gone with the Winds - Veaceslav Draganov

Chapters:
0:00 Hello Everyone
0:20 Please Don't Crash
1:50 Enhance!
8:45 City Lights
12:21 Terrain Mesh Optimization
17:17 Wind Experiment
21:12 Kepler and the Moon
27:32 The Motion of the Sun
28:43 Stars
29:56 Atmospheric Improvements
32:48 Seeing the Sights

Trying to Improve My Geography Game with More Real-World Data

I've recently been on a streak of unfinished projects, so I decided to focus one week on actually completing something -- anything! I thought it would be fun to make a small game, and so I asked an AI for some ideas...

If you'd like to support me in making more of these programming / game dev videos, I have a Patreon page over here: https://www.patreon.com/SebastianLague

Project Files:
https://github.com/SebLague/Super-Chore-Man
https://github.com/SebLague/Cloth-and-IK-Test

Music:
Super Chore Man Theme by Ario Bintang. You can find his YouTube and Fiverr page below:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEVQPEZcTq58f4vdiAxuu-Q
https://www.fiverr.com/ariobintangn

The Art of Loneliness by Anbr
Into the Deep by Daniele Musto
Toony by Liberty
Bursting Splendor by Cody Martin
Newborn by Roie Shpigler
Falling Through the Hourglass by Sid Acharya
Flight of the Inner Bird by Sivan Talmor

Chapters:
0:00 Long-winded Introduction
1:33 Generating an Idea
2:45 Inverse Kinematics for Vacuuming
4:38 Rope Simulation
7:33 Cloth Simulation
8:59 Dust! (with GPU Instancing)
11:22 Procedurally Generated Floorboards
11:56 Props and Ghosts
13:13 Suction Lines and More
14:28 Playing the Game
15:50 Super Chore Man Goes Shopping
16:58 Outro

I Spent a Week Making an AI's Video Game Idea

I've been making some small tweaks and additions to my little geography game based on the great feedback I've received from all of you (thank you!).

If you'd like to play the game, you can download it here: https://sebastian.itch.io/geographical-adventures

The project source is over here: https://github.com/SebLague/Geographical-Adventures

If you'd like to support my work (and get early access to new videos and projects), please consider becoming a patron of the channel over here:
https://www.patreon.com/SebastianLague

Project playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFt_AvWsXl0dT82XMtKATYPcVIhpu2fh6

Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:17 Creating a Compass
3:58 Making a Map
10:47 Tweaking the Terrain
13:13 Better city lights
15:40 Star Colour
16:27 Nighttime Visibility
17:26 Hot Air Balloons
19:52 Speed Control
21:34 Skywriting Experiment
24:18 The Final Result

Music:
Spread your Wings - Evgeny Bardyuzha
Immersion - Michael FK
Back Home - Max H
Icicles - Biba Dupont
Less Traveled - Hans Johnson
Let the Rains Come - We Dream of Eden
How it Was - Laurel Violet
Brightest - Ardie Son
L'Absinthe Brûle - Biba Dupont
It Will Come Back - The Stolen Orchestra
Over the Canyon - Gray North
Autumn in Paris - Jan Baars
Passion - Veaceslav Draganov

Polishing and Releasing My Tiny Geography Game

Trying to generate some simple little moons and planets to fly about and explore.
Inspired by the (incredible!) game Outer Wilds.

Watch the next solar system video: https://youtu.be/DxfEbulyFcY
Previous solar system video: https://youtu.be/7axImc1sxa0

Project Files:
The Unity project is available on github here: https://github.com/SebLague/Solar-System/tree/Episode_02
If you'd like to support my work and get early access to new projects, you can do so here on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SebastianLague

Resources:
https://www.redblobgames.com/x/1842-delaunay-voronoi-sphere/
https://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/smin/smin.htm
https://www.medium.com/@bgolus/normal-mapping-for-a-triplanar-shader-10bf39dca05a
https://www.medium.com/game-dev-daily/four-ways-to-create-a-mesh-for-a-sphere-d7956b825db4
https://www.github.com/keijiro/KinoBloom
https://www.textures.com

Music:
"Brief Respite" by Antti Luode
"In the Clouds" by Falls
"When Rain Comes" by Tide Electric
"Reflections of Space and Time" by AEROPLANES
"Liminal" by Chelsea McGough
"Frontier" by Shimmer
"Sun and the Moon" by Moments

Sections:
0:00 Intro
0:25 Spheres
3:09 Craters
8:10 Noise
10:40 Triplanar Mapping
14:21 Planet Shape
15:28 Ocean
17:30 Planet Shading
20:06 Solar System

Coding Adventure: Procedural Moons and Planets

Welcome to my four part lecture on essential math for game developers 💖 I hope you'll find this useful in your game dev journey!

This course will have assignments throughout, if you want to maximize your learning, I recommend doing them!

If you are enjoying this series, please consider supporting me on Patreon!
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:07:05 - Why math?
00:12:59 - 1D vectors
00:36:13 - 2D vectors
01:09:35 - Vector normalization
01:15:23 - Direction to point
01:23:11 - Length
01:31:49 - Distance
01:44:14 - Point along direction
02:00:45 - Radial trigger
02:26:21 - Dot product
02:44:30 - Examples from my game
03:03:13 - Assignments
03:03:29 - Asgmt. 1 (Radial trigger)
03:05:49 - Asgmt. 2 (Look-at trigger)
03:10:03 - Asgmt. 3 (Space transformation)

Assignments:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nou1ZAbNOkELggW9YqZ9LTRIW9Hc-isUpURbQ8gjiMM

Originally streamed as a course for students at http://futuregames.se/, who were super kind to let me both stream this live as well as upload it here! so massive thanks to the people at FutureGames!!

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Vectors & Dot Product • Math for Game Devs [Part 1]

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This is a several hours long improvised live introductory course to shader coding in Unity! It has been slightly edited in the beginning to remove useless info and me messing around with the mic. The rest is the stream in its fullest!

Timestamps available below!

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2:00 - Pre-stream chatting

Part 1: The Basics
28:53 - Shader vs Material
35:27 - Anatomy of Shaders
58:32 - Shader Code
1:09:20 - UV Coordinates
1:34:00 - Normals

Part 2: Diffuse Lighting
1:48:05 - Lambert Shading & Dot Product
2:15:05 - Tonemapping & HDR
2:21:33 - Properties & Surface Color
 
Part 3: Specular Lighting
2:30:30 - View Vector & World Position
2:48:38 - Phong BRDF & View Reflection
3:00:58 - Gloss & Interpolators

Part 4: Manipulating Values
3:26:36 - Cel Shading & Thresholding
3:31:40 - Lerp, Inverse Lerp & Posterization
3:55:13 - Passing Data to Shaders
4:07:30 - Waves & Time

Part 5: Showcase
4:31:29 - Water in Garden of the Sea
4:37:03 - SDF Raytracing in Garden of the Sea
4:41:53 - SDF Raytracing of a Fractal
4:48:40 - Flowstorm Gameplay
4:50:24 - Flowstorm Level Editor

Intro to Shader Coding in Unity - An Improvised Live Course

A little experimental game I've been working on recently, where you fly around a tiny version of the world and deliver packages to various cities. Would love to hear any ideas you might have about how this could be taken further!

The next episode about this project's development is now available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXD97l7ZT0w

The source files for this project are available here: https://github.com/SebLague/Geographical-Adventures.
If you'd like to support my work, and get early access to new videos and projects, please consider becoming a Patron of the channel over here: https://www.patreon.com/SebastianLague

Earth data from:
https://www.naturalearthdata.com/
https://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/
https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/collection/1484/blue-marble?page=2

Music:
Faith - Michael FK
It Will Come Back - The Stolen Orchestra
Icicle Caverns - Cast of Characters
On Earth - We Dream of Eden
Nightingale - Emorie
Heart Caligraphy - Cody Martin
Cosmic Waves - Michael FK
Living - Borrtex
Wonderland - Shimmer
Falling Through the Hourglass - Sid Acharya
The Art of Loneliness - ANBR
Another Time Another Place - Sounds Like Sander
Summit - Gray North
Parachutes - Michael FK

Chapters:
0:00 Intro (feat. Ori)
0:36 In Which a Cube Becomes a Sphere
2:06 Topography and Bathymetry 
2:38 Latitude and Longitude Conversions
3:24 A Vertically Exaggerated World
6:10 Flying About the Planet
7:35 Frustum Culling Optimization
8:20 Generating a Normal Map
10:09 A Splash of Colour
10:39 Countries and Cities
12:06 Drawing Borders
13:07 Country Highlights
15:37 Drawing the Oceans
18:01 Some Gigantic Boats
20:05 Cloud Experiments
24:08 Custom Shadow Casting
25:39 Atmosphere Test
26:44 Parachuting Packages
28:00 Let's Play!
31:27 Outro (feat. Ori and Beemo)