---
title: "Even Faster Terrain - Terrain Shaders - Episode 6"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/even-faster-terrain---terrain-shaders---episode-6-hew1vr8di
source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucuSaiDuqiM
type: video:youtube
source: "Ben Cloward"
published: 2026-01-24T19:35:17.512Z
updated: 2026-01-24T21:23:03.930Z
tags: ["game-development", "unity", "unreal-engine"]
reading_time: 33
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Even Faster Terrain - Terrain Shaders - Episode 6

**[Ben Cloward](https://daily.dev/sources/bencloward)** · 33 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

In this tutorial, I show how to make terrain shaders even faster than last week using runtime virtual textures. This technique allows us to only render the complex terrain shader when needed instead of every frame.

Here's the playlist for the whole series:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78XDi0TS4lHI72hWFQHpDJpL87LiQPgC

Shader Book Recommendations
https://www.bencloward.com/resources_books.shtml

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Theme Music
Peace in the Circuitry - Glitch Hop
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Background Music
Speo - The Little Things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvCYuyyLgC0

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