Rendering

A series about understanding Unity's default rendering pipeline. How a mesh turns into pixels that look like real objects. Note that this covers the built-in legacy pipeline, which is on its way out. The concepts and techniques are still useful to know, but the specific approaches can be considered deprecated.

• Matrices
  • 1. Visualizing Space
• Shader Fundamentals
• Combining Textures
• The First Light
• Multiple Lights
• Bumpiness
• Shadows
• Reflections
• Complex Materials
• More Complexity
• Transparency
• Semitransparent Shadows
• Deferred Shading
• Fog
• Deferred Lights
• Static Lighting
• Mixed Lighting
• Realtime GI and LOD Groups
• GPU Instancing
• Parallax