Unity Top Tip: Creating Custom Glow Shaders in Unity

Start creating custom glow shaders in unity for user feedback. Learn how to create a custom shader and react to the materials however you choose. Use these shaders to notify users that they can pick up objects or interact with certain objects within a game.

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[iambubbathedog]

Really wish you would've shown it in game.

[lloydcorfex]

Works fine, but it didn´t show a black Rim.
If i set it to black there is just no Rim.
(All other colors work great)

Would you give me a hint to solve this?
Thank you

[ThatKid]

Unity should really use the system of making shaders and materials that blender has, very simple, easy to use and kinda fun in a way.

[scottcourtney]

Excellent tutorial! I needed exactly this shader for my application, and making it was more fun than buying it.

I found some syntax changes in the newest Unity version (5.2), and also it was tricky typing in the code from the screen because parentheses and brackets look so similar. Send me a PM if you want a copy of my updated code. (I take no credit for the base code -- all I did was update it to Unity 5.2 syntax.)

[cosminavieru]

I have a problem: The main texture is not applied. I put a texture on the shader(the shader is attached on a sphere) but the sphere have a diffuse collor. How to resolve this?

[ImSiggi]

how to add smoothness there ? i got a error :
expression left of ".Smoothness" is not a struct of an array
and implicit cast from "float4" to "float3" -> o.Albedo = c.rgb + _MyColor*(_Shininess - factor*_Shininess);

[AC-fige]

Hm... I seem to be getting a 'pure black' result. None of the sliders have an effect. 

[jaystrikes]

Very helpful, and works great. Thanks

[FritzTheWolf]

After saving and creating a new material with this shader, the material gives me no options or sliders and just shows a pink ball in the preview. Help please?

[Ggamer]

Awesome work mate, was just wondering how I could apply this to a transparent material, for example I have rocks in my level and I want apply a lava lines that glow on the rocks, but unfortunately with this tut I can't seem to have both :/ any ideas on how i could achieve this?

[dttngan]

How about this glow effect which applied on sprite renderer?

[Ctrltheshift]

Hm ... I seem to be getting a syntax error at the o.Normal line. I have no idea why.

[ImSiggi]

lol i wrote normalise instead of normalize :D