daniel-ilett / shaders-6grass

Six varied methods for drawing grass with a range of use cases.

Six Grass Rendering Techniques in Unity

Six varied methods for drawing grass with a range of use cases.

Overview

There are many ways to render grass in Unity, and each method has its own advantages and drawbacks. This repository showcases six different techniques: mesh grass, geometry and tessellation grass, procedural rendering with compute shaders, billboarding, Unity terrains, and impostors.

Software

This project was created using Unity 2021.3.0f1 (LTS) and URP 12.1.6.

Tutorials

A tutorial video is available on YouTube based on this project.

Authors

This project and the corresponding tutorials were created by Daniel Ilett.

Release

This project was released on December 3rd 2022.