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Shader Design

1 Building Shaders

Building Slim Shading Networks

Creating Shading Networks

Creating Connections

The Art of Shader Design

The Graph View Editor

Slim's Shader Arsenal

The Core Functions

Special Appearances

Special Case Names

Create Custom Solutions

2 Shader Design

The Shader Design Process

Authoring Shaders Interactively

Founded Upon the RSL

Deceptively Simple

Authoring & Deployment

Different Tools for Different Pipelines

Deployment Strategies

Slim Networks vs. Compiled Shaders

3 Packaging Shader Networks

Reasons for Packaging

Ways to Package

Internal and External Parameters

Creating a Bundle

Using Instances

Flattening a Network

Editing the .slim File

Importing Flattened Shaders

4 Shader Recipes

Slide Projector

Projecting Light Color

Deep Shadows: Colored Shadows

Deep Shadows: Fake Caustics

Reflection Maps

Environment Maps

Environment Lights

Reflection Falloff

Ray Traced Refractions

Ray Traced Occlusion

Advanced Ray Tracing: The Jam Shader

Diffuse & Specular Warmth

Glass
Fakey® Glow

5 Autoscript: Converting Maya Texture Shaders

The Autoscript Overview

Special thanks to DreamWorks