Learn Unity Shaders from Scratch (Udemy.com)

I'm really enjoying the course. The steps are well explained and are also supported by well-designed slides. Another great help is the shared project. It's well-structured and allows you to compare the code you've written during the lessons, helping you understand where you've gone wrong. If I had to offer a small constructive criticism, it would be about the comments in the shaders. The lack of comments slows down the hands-on learning process.

The lectures need to have pauses added to them at the end of writing code in VS Code so that a person has time to pause the video and write the code themselves. For me I like to watch what is being instructed then pause and write the code so I have something to play around with once the lecture is done which helps me fully grasp what is going on. Also there is sometimes something fixed without explanation and a line of code can just pop into the script from what I'm assuming is a video clip edit. Other course creators usually edit in a vocal comment that they had to make a correction. I think that would really help improve these lectures. Small fixes could make this a way better course.

Learning a lot that I missed when trying to learn shaders on my own watching random videos and reading articles. While some of it is math heavy, that is exactly what I needed to get more comfortable with. I find it much easier to understand formulae in other's shader code now. Matrix transforms are always something I misunderstood and this help me clear that up as well. Some areas, such as the Textures and Shapes sections felt a bit rushed and focused more on effects and showcases than building practical skill foundation. You will have to slow yourself down and play with some of the code to practice. I found myself adding a lot of enhancements along the way to get the topics to really sink in. Push yourself to practice and don't skip the challenges (and challenge yourself) and I'd expect you'll learn a lot like I did. Nicholas is very responsive and helpful in answering questions.

This has been an amazing course so far, I would like to note anyone that wants to be learning shaders from scratch yes you will need to learn for a better understanding, the reality is you dont actually need to learn it but it helps so much in understanding both the reality and potenial of shader coding, I love the way this instructor tackles the subjects. If you come into this thinking you can just watched the video and then be on your way that is the wrong way to apporch this, instead this is best for coming back to and realizing information, this course may at times feel like a lost mess, but in reality this person does a great job at walking people through the basic and fundmental understandings of shaders. I could care less about the whole visual nobe base coding the real meat and prize is in the programming, I at first came at this course lost and never understanding anything new to computers new to coding because I have never coded in my life and now 8 months later I find myself realzing so much

As an introductory course it is great. I had some experience with writing GLSL shaders and i have been working with unity for couple of years. For some reason the step from where i was to creating shaders in unity was not easy and this course helped a lot. I hoped some advanced topics like deffered rendering would be touched upon but as the course name states, it is an introductory course. The sections on URP and shader graph were excelent and actualy convinced me to upgrade my current project to URP.

Shaders can contain some complex mathematics and I really appreciate Nik's diagrams to illustrate what is going on in a specific formula. In the 'shaping functions' part of the course, each example was tweakable and I did some really creative things with some of them on my own. In the 'noise' section I felt like a door had opened and each point that was made was important. This is not the easiest material but if you follow closely and think about the math, you will take in powerful techniques in graphics programming!

I like the instructor provides several simplified shader codes, and we can try/test shader functions while we are progressing through the course. The course is really great shader introductory course. However, this course is definitely not for all skill levels. The course is quite heavily using Math. I do recommend to have fairly good understanding on Trigonometry (Sine, Cosine, Tangent, Dot product), and Linear Algebra (change of coordinate basis). Otherwise it'll be hard time following the course along.

I like it overall. It's great because it covers a lot of things regarding shaders. It's very apparent that the lector knows his things. One thing that really bothers me during this course is that many individual topics are covered in a very fast pace. What I mean is that unless you are a very fast typer, you will struggle keeping up with the lector and you will have to pause the video several times, even in a two minute video. Some lectures feel like we just type some magic numbers and Voila! here is the solution, and you have no idea why those numbers and what was the process of getting them. Even with those issues, it's still a great course nontheless.

The information presented in this course is fantastic. The tutor has a great personality, and I can’t stress enough how enjoyable he makes this course. My main criticism is that the pacing is a bit all over the place. For hours it feels like we are getting fed bits of information at a nice pace, and then out of nowhere it suddenly becomes very overwhelming and we are presented with an onslaught of new information with very little time for explanation despite fantastic explanations early on. I would encourage everyone to purchase content from this tutor as he is truly fantastic, but this course has a very steep learning curve. Edit: After taking a few months to delve further into shaders, I revisited this course, and found it a lot more understandable, so I am editing my review as I feel that Nick did indeed do a good job, and that it was my own lack of foundational knowledge that made it feel like there was a bit of an information overload a few lectures in.

Great course. Took this as a refresher to get back into shaders. Everything you need is provided. Both starting scenes for each lecture and also completed ones if you get stuck with code errors. Nice learning curve. Everything is well explained. No long boring slideshows. Also plenty of challenges, which I like and find very useful in assisting your learning. Very clear audio and code. So no problems following along and plenty to take in. Also Nicholas is very helpful with your Q&A’s. Highly recommended.