Beginner's guide to Shader Development using Unity
- Teachable.com - Cgcircuit.com What are we going to understand here? What is a shader? Types of shaders based on their functionality. Shader and their types : W hat is a shader ? When we ask a computer to perform any operation, we give an instruction to it, and a set of these instructions is called a Program . A program that is used or contributes to shade or draw something on the screen is called a shader . Shader is a set of instructions that is run on GPU — Graphics Processing Unit GPU: A processing unit or circuit specially designed for faster and efficient computer graphics operation or image manipulation. If we quickly take a look at the comparison of GPU and CPU, GPU is also being used in deep-learning calculations. A CPU with four (or 8 or 10) cores in it A GPU with thousands of cores in it. Cores of CPU are designed for serial operations, whereas cores of GPU are designed for parallel or simultaneous o