Toon Shader in Unity Using a Shader Graph with Custom Lighting! ✔️ 2020.3 | Game Dev Tutorial

Опубликовано: 15 Март 2026
на канале: Ned Makes Games

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✔️ Works in 2020.1 ➕ 2020.2 ➕ 2020.3 🩹 For 2020.2 and .3:
► When you create a shader graph, set the material setting to "Unlit"
► The gear menu on Custom Function nodes is now in the graph inspector
► Editing properties must be done in the graph inspector instead of the blackboard
► In Lighting.hlsl, change the line "if SHADERGRAPH_PREVIEW" to "ifdef SHADERGRAPH_PREVIEW"
► Add a normalize node after view direction to fix a bug in certain Unity versions.

Toon shaders, also called cel shaders, create a cartoon-like style with segmented shading. In this video, I'll show you how to create these shaders in Unity using Shader Graph. Features include: diffuse and specular lighting, color textures, shading ramp textures, shadows, and multiple light sources. The custom lighting techniques can be used in a variety of shaders down the line!

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📚 Reference scripts
► Main light: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ned...
► Main light with shadows: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ned...
► Main and additional lights: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ned...
► Final version for 2020.2 and onward: https://gist.github.com/NedMakesGames...

✨Follow up videos
► Spot light shadows:    • Toon Shader Graph with More Shadows and Be...

⏲️ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:00 Project setup
2:10 Simple (diffuse) lighting
5:39 Shading ramp textures
7:54 Color textures
8:57 Shadows
12:10 Specular lighting
14:59 Additional light sources
19:31 Wrap up and credits

🎖️ Credits and references:
• https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-mode...
• https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/...
• https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/...
• https://freesound.org/people/Akacie/s...
• https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/07/31/...
• https://alexanderameye.github.io/simp...
•   / 1240636243060408321
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