Shader Reference

Choose the effect you want to change, then open its reference for exact Inspector labels, material paths and visual comparisons. A shader named Planets HD can still belong to the URP template; the menu name is not a pipeline selector.

Planet surfaces

Shader	Use it for
Terrestrial	Land, ocean, clouds and night-side city emission
Oceanic	Water detail and clouds on an ocean world
Moon	Rocky triplanar textures and crater shading
Ice	Depth-shaped ice colors and detail
Lava	Emissive molten terrain and distortion
Gas	Banded gas giants with polar detail
Sand	Desert layers and animated dust clouds
Thunderstorm	Turbulent clouds and flashing lightning

Surrounding effects

Shader	Use it for
Atmosphere	Colored atmospheric arcs on separate shells
Ring Transparent	Translucent radial bands with a planet-shadow approximation
Ring Opaque	Solid radial rings in custom compositions
Ring Shadow	Alpha-tested rings with a visible white forward output
Sun	Animated stellar surface and silhouette
Sun Corona	Animated stellar rays and radial glow

Read the examples

Each page starts with a large visual example, then explains where to find the material and how its controls work together. Property ID is the exact name to use with Unity’s Material API; preserve spelling such as _FrenselMult.

Before/After images show one changed setting at a fixed instant with a fixed camera and light. Values are example settings, not promised safe ranges for every material. Most examples retain the full prefab, so surrounding effects can remain visible. Gas surface close-ups hide the ring; Sun and Corona examples show their combined layers. Ring Opaque and Ring Shadow examples are custom compositions, identified on their pages.

Start from a copied supplied material. Defaults on a newly created material are not the same as the finished presets. See Materials and customization before tuning masks, color alpha or texture mappings.