A UI with a blurred background looks stylish and cool, doesn't it? However, Unity does not currently have a standard feature to blur only a portion of the screen. This is a critical limitation.

You will learn to write a lit toon shader from scratch. The shader will be lit by a single directional light, and cast and receive shadows. Breath of the Wild divides surfaces into two bands of ...

Our games need to look unique. There's nothing we can do to fight that. Good artists are great at creating amazing characters and environments but programmers can open a whole new world of ...

In this article, we will explain how to use 2D Shader Graph in Unity to create various effects. Specifically, we will cover using the Sprite Custom Lit shader to sample 2D light textures and ...

Unity-powered 2D platformers remain one of the lowest-risk entry points for beginner game developers in 2026. The tutorial covers complete 2D platformer creation in Unity, from sprite setup and ...

The stub shaders are not real; they are fake shaders that will be replaced with the real ones in the game by Material Editor. In Unity Editor, materials using these stub shaders will only have MainTex ...

Unity has released Unity 6.5, the latest version of the game engine and real-time renderer. With most games artists’ attention focused on the release of Unreal Engine 5.8 and Epic Games’ unveiling of ...