Unity Shader Graph Basics (Part 5 - Vertex Shaders)

Vertex shaders can be used to modify or animate the shape of the mesh. In this tutorial, I explain what vertex shaders do and then we use Shader Graph to create a wave animation on a normally flat plane mesh.
I'm using Unity 2022.3.0f1, although these steps should look similar in previous and subsequent Unity versions.
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[@jessin3932]

This video series and your website have both been such life-savers. You're a great teacher and your explanations are incredibly clear and helpful. Thanks for all the hard work you do!

[@mahmoudelmansari3413]

great series and explanations, i'm learning alot, please keep going. Thank you

[@unruliestcat]

Thank you so much for this awesome series!

[@simoncodrington]

This one was great mate, cheers ❤

[@tolgakonat1885]

hey! i love your series! keep going

[@danielilett]

Definitely planning on making more parts of this series!

[@andresbocchigliere3227]

Awesome to hear that man! Greetings all the way from Argentina@@danielilett

[@rodrigoappelt1408]

awesome series! it would be interesting to see the hacks to implement compute buffers and custom structs in HDRP shadergraph in the future

[@darkanviii2182]

Thank you so much! This is really interesting and helpful. You are explaining very well!

[@NicolasColaleoDev]

the legend is back!

[@Ambo100]

One thing I think that is missing is that the Wind Speed and Wind Strength properties should be set to see anything. Otherwise another great tutorial, thank you.

[@everything-bagel]

Yea this threw me off a bit as well. If you check the sample project he: (A) Puts the Wave Material on a *Plane* object (C) Uses Wave Speed *1* and Wave Strength *0.508*.

[@FruitBK]

Awesome!!

[@moe-nl9sf]

Thank you so much, this is great! Hope you keep going

[@DinoDev_OG]

How would i update the mesh to the new normals

[@carlosisturiz917]

I'm new to Shader Graphs, and I wanted to ask, if I wanted to apply this vertex deformation to a sphere, so that it's surface undulated like that, what should I do?