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Ben Golus

The Best Darn Grid Shader (Yet)

For as long as I’ve been writing shaders, there’s been one specific shader I’ve always tried to write…

Oct 20, 2023

The Best Darn Grid Shader (Yet)

Oct 20, 2023

Distinctive Derivative Differences

Pesky Problems with Procedural UVs

Apr 13, 2021

Distinctive Derivative Differences

Apr 13, 2021

Rendering a Sphere on a Quad

Making the Sphere Impostor Feel More Competent

Jan 10, 2021

Rendering a Sphere on a Quad

Jan 10, 2021

The Quest for Very Wide Outlines

An Exploration of GPU Silhouette Rendering

Jul 18, 2020

The Quest for Very Wide Outlines

Jul 18, 2020

Progressing in Circles

Exploring shader based circular progress bars for Unity games

May 28, 2020

Progressing in Circles

May 28, 2020

Generating Perfect Normal Maps for Unity (and Other Programs)

And how to tell what’s wrong with your content pipeline.

Feb 3, 2020

Generating Perfect Normal Maps for Unity (and Other Programs)

Feb 3, 2020

Sharper Mipmapping using Shader Based Supersampling

Mipmapping is ubiquitous in real time rendering, but has limitations. This article is going to go into what mipmapping is, how it’s used…

Aug 10, 2019

Sharper Mipmapping using Shader Based Supersampling

Aug 10, 2019

The Team Color Problem

Team coloring or otherwise modifying the color of part of an object is a common use case for shaders. It’s also a use case that often has a…

Jul 11, 2018

The Team Color Problem

Jul 11, 2018

Normal Mapping for a Triplanar Shader

Triplanar mapping is a great solution for dealing with texturing on complex geometry that is difficult or impossible to use traditional UVs…

Sep 17, 2017

Normal Mapping for a Triplanar Shader

Sep 17, 2017

Anti-aliased Alpha Test: The Esoteric Alpha To Coverage

Aliasing is the bane of VR. We have several tools we use to try to remove, or at least reduce aliasing in real time graphics today. Tools…

Aug 12, 2017

Anti-aliased Alpha Test: The Esoteric Alpha To Coverage

Aug 12, 2017

Ben Golus

Ben Golus

Tech Artist & Graphics Programmer lately focused on Unity VR game dev. https://ko-fi.com/bgolus

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