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# Introduction

After my assignments with BlewScreen had stopped, I took it upon myself to learn more about shader graphing, something that is widely used in games to give many different effects on the textures.

I wanted to recreate a cleaning mechanic as you have in Powerwashing simulator.

To start I started looking for multiple showcases and tutorials to see what's possible.

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This video in particular gave me a great look into the potential ways to use shaders.