Beginner's Guide to Shader Distortion Techniques

finally, a guide using colour

As a shader dev, this video is an awesome video explaining complex topics in a very simple and structured way, great job!

That was such a high quality video. I really appreciate the time you took to make and animate the diagrams.

Really cool, I have never seen this done with a SDF. Usually this is done with a regular normal map where you use the normal vectors as offsets. That has the added benefit of not only being able to change the shape of the shockwave, but also give it a texture/roughness. You can generate the normal map from a shockwave mesh in blender for instance. You can then also rotate it etc. It can be really versatile, and be used for instance for heat distortion from a flame. But the SDF approach has the benefit of not becoming blocky/revealing the resolution of the texture if scaled up a lot.

this is an exceptionally well made video. the pace and detail is awesome to reason about the content. Also like the display of "new image" vs "old image". Very well done.

Excellent video! Your explanations combined with the animations made it really easy to follow along. Usually shaders can get pretty messy, but you did a great job

Awesome video! Just what I needed!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO! I always wanted to get started in shaders and this really inspires me.

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awesome video!

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this is a gem for shader noobs like me

Great video ! Been wanting to learn shaders and your videos are of great help.

6:34 wouldn't that be a Signed Distance Function? I thought Signed Distance Fields used textures instead of mathematical models

really nice video man

you can do this waaaay faster i mean like 1000x