How to find Unity's hidden shaders?

Question

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to use the hidden shaders found in Unity like you might find on the tree creator. Specifically I need "Hidden/Nature/Tree Creator Leaves Fast Optimized" and "Hidden/Nature/Tree Creator Bark Fast Optimized".

I've been searching pretty extensively, but the only reference to the shaders I can find is this question from 2010: http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/37130/how-do-i-find-a-hidden-shader.html

And the link shared within is no longer valid. Does anyone know where else I can find the hidden shaders?

Answer 1

Best Answer

Answer by Brian@Artific · Jul 11, 2013 at 09:01 PM

http://download-cdn.unity3d.com/unity/download/archive

Add comment · Show 3 · Share

Panopolos · Jul 12, 2013 at 06:48 AM 0

Share

you are so beautiful

zwcloud · Jun 05, 2016 at 02:16 PM 0

Share

The builtin_shaders_xxx.zip does not include all the hidden shaders.

SimRuJ · Oct 24, 2018 at 02:31 PM 0

Share

New url: click (Click on the "Downloads" dropdown of the version you want and pick "built in shaders")

Answer 2

Answer by Xarbrough · Dec 18, 2015 at 07:21 PM

You were probably just looking for the source, but you can also use hidden shaders without copying their code to the assets folder like this:

 var shader = Shader.Find("Hidden/Internal-Colored");

So you only need to lookup the names and then you can load them and set properties at runtime. I use this frequently when I know I only need that simple color shader and then turn off zWrite or change the blendmode via the SetInt() methods.

Add comment · Share

How to find Unity's hidden shaders?

2 Replies

Your answer

Follow this Question

Related Questions