How to find Unity's hidden shaders?

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Hello everyone,

I’m trying to use the hidden shaders found in Unity like you might find on the tree creator. Specifically I need “Hidden/Nature/Tree Creator Leaves Fast Optimized” and “Hidden/Nature/Tree Creator Bark Fast Optimized”.

I’ve been searching pretty extensively, but the only reference to the shaders I can find is this question from 2010: How do I find a hidden shader? - Unity Answers

And the link shared within is no longer valid. Does anyone know where else I can find the hidden shaders?

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You were probably just looking for the source, but you can also use hidden shaders without copying their code to the assets folder like this:

var shader = Shader.Find("Hidden/Internal-Colored");

So you only need to lookup the names and then you can load them and set properties at runtime. I use this frequently when I know I only need that simple color shader and then turn off zWrite or change the blendmode via the SetInt() methods.

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http://download-cdn.unity3d.com/unity/download/archive