Where are the shaders?

Unity Engine
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This probably sounds incredibly dumb. Oh well! 8)

I have no idea how to find the shaders! I don’t need anything fancy yet, I just need to get objects rendered! All I see available to me are “FX Water - NonReflect” and “ShadowProjection”. Skybox is the default, but I can’t get back to it if I click off of it. I’ve had a similar problem with particles. There are supposedly several built-in shaders with Unity Indie, but I can’t for the life of me find them in my assets. Any ideas?

(I have tried importing the standard package again, to no avail.)

Thanks!

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They’re built into unity. None of the built in ones are in the assets. Here’s the source code of them:

http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=2150

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Thanks a bunch. I saw that thread, but didn’t know if it would be useful to me. It is.

I still have no idea what that means, them being “built-in”. How are they built-in if I have to search for this collection to use them?

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In the project window go to Create >> Material. Then click on the newly created material in the project window. Then it wil appear in the inspector. There will be a shader drop down box that will contain all of the built in shaders. Once you’ve selected your shader, apply it to an object. The reason you could see the other 2 in the project view is because they were brought in seperatley.

Does this help?

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I tried this before! I only get two options! There is a third option, “Normal-Diffuse”, that is the default, but it is inaccessible if I choose anything else.

That is, unless I import the folder you linked me to!

:?: :?: :?: :?: :?:

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You mean you don’t see this without the folder I linked you to?

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You’ve got it! Aras recommends a reinstall. I now have to go figure out how to do that.

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Wait don’t reinstall. It looks like you’re in debug mode at the top of the inspector. You probably want to be in “full” most of the time.

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AMAZING! I like that mode because of all the extra variables I can watch update in real-time. I had no idea it would limit my choices like that! Thanks so much! Now, what about the particle issue? I love the look of this default setting, but if I select something else, perhaps accidentally, there is seemingly no going back.

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The “default” particle material uses Particles/Alpha Blended Premultiply shader with a texture like this (the texture has also “Generate alpha from grayscale” in import settings).

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