--- title: Terrain Shaders - Start With A Plan - Episode 1 | daily.dev description: Today we begin a new series of videos about creating terrain shaders in Unreal and Unity. Over the next few months we'll cover all aspects of the subject in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/terrain-shaders---start-with-a-plan---episode-1-c0mrxxgik twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Terrain Shaders - Start With A Plan - Episode 1 | daily.dev og:description: Today we begin a new series of videos about creating terrain shaders in Unreal and Unity. Over the next few months we'll cover all aspects of the subject in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/terrain-shaders---start-with-a-plan---episode-1-c0mrxxgik og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/C0mrxxgiK.png og:image:alt: Terrain Shaders - Start With A Plan - Episode 1 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Terrain Shaders - Start With A Plan - Episode 1 **[Ben Cloward](https://daily.dev/sources/bencloward)** · 19 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Today we begin a new series of videos about creating terrain shaders in Unreal and Unity. Over the next few months we'll cover all aspects of the subject in both game engines. Today we talk about collecting reference images, finding material textures, and using channel packing to reduce the number of texture samples required for each terrain layer. Shader Book Recommendations https://www.bencloward.com/resources_books.shtml ------------------------------ Theme Music Peace in the Circuitry - Glitch Hop http://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1526 Background Music Speo - The Little Things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvCYuyyLgC0 #UnrealEngine #shadergraph #Unity ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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