Published: 26 Dec 2023

In this tutorial you'll learn 3 different ways to have lights flicker or twinkle in a shader (no code required!).

Since it's the end of year holiday season, Christmas lights were on my mind, but this can be applied in a Horror game, Halloween updates, Christmas, and all kinds of other use cases in your game.


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