Unity 2018 Shaders and Effects Cookbook

How it works...

This shader introduces several new concepts. First of all, Tags are used to add information about how the object is going to be rendered. The really interesting one here is Queue. Unity, by default, will sort your objects for you based on the distance from the camera. So, as an object gets nearer to the camera, it is going to be drawn over all the objects that are further away from the camera. For most cases, this works out just fine for games, but you will find yourself in certain situations where you will want to have more control over the sorting of your objects in your scene. Unity has provided us with some default render queues, each with a unique value that directs Unity when to draw the object to the screen. These built-in ...