Built-in Effect

The engine provides a set of common built-in shaders, located in the internal -> effects directory of the Assets panel of the editor. Double-click a shader file to open it in an external IDE for viewing and editing (provided that Default Script Editor needs to be configured in Preferences -> External Programs).

Creator roughly categorizes built-in shaders into the following categories:

• internal：Internal functionality shaders, such as In-editor gizmo, geometry renderer. Users generally do not need to pay attention to these.
• pipeline：Pipeline effects shaders, including deferred lighting, post-effects, anti-aliasing, and more.
• util：Holds some loose built-in shaders, such as dcc material importing and sequence frame animations. Users generally do not need to pay attention to these.
• for2d：2D rendering shaders, such as spine and sprite.
• particles：Particle effect shaders.
• advanced：Advanced material with surface shader, such as water, skin, hair, jade.
• Others are built-in shaders, please refer to the description below for details.

Built-in pipeline effect

Effect name	description
bloom.effect	Full-screen bloom effect
deferred-lighting.effect	Lighting process in the deferred-rendering pipeline
planar-shadow.effect	Planar shadow
post-process.effect	Post-processing
skybox.effect	Skybox shader
smaa.effect	SMAA Antialiasing
tonemap.effect	Engine reserved

Built-in effect

Material Effect name	description
builtin-standard.effect	PBR
builtin-terrain.effect	Default terrain effect
builtin-toon.effect	Toon shading
builtin-unlit.effect	Unlit

Other Effect name	description
builtin-billboard.effect	Billboard Billboard is a rendering technique that makes objects always face the camera, suitable for rendering trees, healthing point bars, etc.
builtin-camera-texture.effect	camera texture
builtin-clear-stencil.effect	clear stencil cache
builtin-graphics.effect	Graphics effect
builtin-occlusion-query.effect	Occlusion query
builtin-particle-trail.effect	Trail for particle system
builtin-particle.effect	CPU-based rendergin for particle system
builtin-particle-gpu.effect	GPU-based rendering for particle system Please refer to Particle Renderer to understand the useage of these two effects
builtin-reflection-deferred.effect	For reflection handling in deferred-rendering
builtin-spine.effect	Effect for spine skeleton animation
builtin-sprite.effect	Built-in standard sprite effect
builtin-sprite-gpu.effect	Engine reserved
builtin-wireframe.effect	Wireframe effect