Customizing VR animations in real-time with Shaders & MRTK (1/2)

Goal

Gain more hands-on experience creating custom shaders in Unity and linking to C# using MRTK.

How

Design and prototype an immersive experience to customize geometry rendering and animations in real time using hand interactions within the constraint of a 3-day project. The first two days were focused on prototyping the core logic and shaders on desktop. The last day was focused on VR prototyping in MRTK.

Note: this post is about the initial desktop prototype. For final VR prototype, see Customizing VR animations in real-time - Shaders & MRTK (2/2).

Desktop prototype demo

Creating color gradient in URP shaders

Linear gradient

Radial gradient

Creating animations in URP shaders

Wave animation

Ripple effect

Special pattern animation

Creating materials using custom URP shaders

Wave material with animation & color gradient

Ripple material with animation and alternate colors

Special pattern material with animation and color gradient

Creating UI using custom URP shaders

UI Shader & materials

Slider to control animation property

Linking animation properties with UI using C#

Set property script snippet

Desktop prototype demo

Prototyping in VR

Check out post : Customizing VR animation in real-time - Shaders & MRTK (2/2)