Shader Story: A Journey into Shaders and Graphics Programming

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”

• John Ruskin

Shader Story is an open educational resource exploring real-time graphics, shader programming, and technical art techniques.

This is a side project of Decompiled Art - a broader initiative focused on deep-dive tutorials, rendering pipelines and graphics programming tools. Shader Story brings those same insights into an accessible format, built for learning, reference, and hands-on experimentation. Main goal is to inspire and empower developers, artists, and technical creators.

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Quick Links

• 📘 About Shader Story
• 📚 Library Contents
• ⚙️ Usage & Requirements
• ❤️ Support the Project
• 🪪 License
• 👥 Credits & Contact

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Library Contents

More articles and categories are in development, stay tuned and ⭐ star the repo!

Common HLSL functions

• Abs
• Step
• Clamp/Saturate
• Smoothstep
• Min/Max
• Remap
• Frac
• Negate
• Floor/Ceil
• Exp
• Sqrt
• Sine/Cosine
• Power
• Lerp
• Dot
• Cross
• Normalize
• Length
• Distance
• Fmod

Derivatives

• Harden Normals
• Edge Transition
• Silhouette
• Slope Detect

Patterns & Shapes

• Circle
• Line
• Square
• Stripes
• Grid
• Checkerboard
• Whirl
• Ripplewaves
• Hex Grid

Noises:

• Perlin
• Simplex
• Value
• Voronoi
• Worley
• Turbulence

Lighting Models

• Lambertian
• Half-Lambertian
• Blinn-Phong
• Minnaert
• Ambient & Hemi Lights
• Matcap
• Banded
• Fresnel
• Image-Based Lighting (IBL)
• Halftone
• Lookup Tables (LUT)
• Toon

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Usage & Requirements

Published resources are compatible and designed to be used with:

• Unity: 6.0+
• Universal Render Pipeline: 17.0+

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Support the Project

If you find Shader Story helpful or inspiring, consider supporting it through:

<br> <p align="center"> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/decompiled_art" target="_blank"> <img src="https://github.com/DeGGeD/ShaderStory/blob/main/Resources/Images/Github/ShaderStory_Github_Patreon.jpg" alt="DecompiledArt on Patreon"> </a> </p>

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License

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

You are free to:

• ✅ Use, modify, and share for non-commercial educational purposes.
• ✅ Learn from and study all resources provided.

But:

• ❌ Commercial use is not allowed - including in games, products, asset stores, tools, or monetized media.
• ✅ Attribution required, please link back to this repository and credit the author.

Full License Info

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Credits & Contact

Created by Decompiled Art
For commercial licensing, questions or partnership inquiries: decompiledart@gmail.com

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Note: This repository does not accept pull requests.