Intro to shaders: 2D and 3D water

In this hands-on video series, you will create your first water shaders in 2D and in 3D. If you’re new to shaders, you should start 2D, because you need some basic understanding of the shading language, vertex and fragment shaders, to build upon. 3D adds quite a bit of complexity when it comes to writing shader programs, as you will see in the third video.

You can watch the . Here are the individual videos:

• Animated Water and UV Coordinates
• Merging the Two Waves Together

Download the source code

It comes with a start folder to follow along with the 2D tutorials, and an end folder that contains the final code.