Built-in shader variables

Transformations

All these matrices are float4x4 type.

Name	Value
UNITY_MATRIX_MVP	Current model * view * projection matrix.
UNITY_MATRIX_MV	Current model * view matrix.
UNITY_MATRIX_V	Current view matrix.
UNITY_MATRIX_P	Current projection matrix.
UNITY_MATRIX_VP	Current view * projection matrix.
UNITY_MATRIX_T_MV	Transpose of model * view matrix.
UNITY_MATRIX_IT_MV	Inverse transpose of model * view matrix.
_Object2World	Current model matrix.
_World2Object	Inverse of current world matrix.

Camera and screen

Name	Type	Value
_WorldSpaceCameraPos	float3	World space position of the camera.
_ProjectionParams	float4	x is 1.0 (or –1.0 if currently rendering with a flipped projection matrix), y is the camera’s near plane, z is the camera’s far plane and w is 1/FarPlane.
_ScreenParams	float4	x is the camera’s render target width in pixels, y is the camera’s render target height in pixels, z is 1.0 + 1.0/width and w is 1.0 + 1.0/height.
_ZBufferParams	float4	Used to linearize Z buffer values. x is (1-far/near), y is (far/near), z is (x/far) and w is (y/far).
unity_OrthoParams	float4	x is orthographic camera’s width, y is orthographic camera’s height, z is unused and w is 1.0 when camera is orthographic, 0.0 when perspective.
unity_CameraProjection	float4x4	Camera’s projection matrix.
unity_CameraInvProjection	float4x4	Inverse of camera’s projection matrix.
unity_CameraWorldClipPlanes[6]	float4	Camera frustum plane world space equations, in this order: left, right, bottom, top, near, far.

Time

Name	Type	Value
_Time	float4	Time since level load (t/20, t, t*2, t*3), use to animate things inside the shaders.
_SinTime	float4	Sine of time: (t/8, t/4, t/2, t).
_CosTime	float4	Cosine of time: (t/8, t/4, t/2, t).
unity_DeltaTime	float4	Delta time: (dt, 1/dt, smoothDt, 1/smoothDt).

Lighting

Name	Type	Value
_LightColor0 (declared in Lighting.cginc)	fixed4	Light color.
_WorldSpaceLightPos0	float4	Directional lights: (world space direction, 0). Other lights: (world space position, 1).
_LightMatrix0 (declared in AutoLight.cginc)	float4x4	World-to-light matrix. Used to sample cookie & attenuation textures.
unity_4LightPosX0, unity_4LightPosY0, unity_4LightPosZ0	float4	(ForwardBase pass only) world space positions of first four non-important point lights.
unity_4LightAtten0	float4	(ForwardBase pass only) attenuation factors of first four non-important point lights.
unity_LightColor	half4[4]	(ForwardBase pass only) colors of of first four non-important point lights.

Deferred shading and deferred lighting, used in the lighting pass shader (all declared in UnityDeferredLibrary.cginc):

Name	Type	Value
_LightColor	float4	Light color.
_LightMatrix0	float4x4	World-to-light matrix. Used to sample cookie & attenuation textures.

Fog and Ambient

Name	Type	Value
UNITY_LIGHTMODEL_AMBIENT	fixed4	Ambient lighting color (Equator ambient in three-color lighting case).
unity_AmbientSky	fixed4	Sky ambient lighting color in three-color lighting case.
unity_AmbientGround	fixed4	Ground ambient lighting color in three-color lighting case.
unity_FogColor	fixed4	Fog color.
unity_FogParams	float4	Parameters for fog calculation: (density / sqrt(ln(2)), density / ln(2), –1/(end-start), end/(end-start)). x is useful for Exp2 fog mode, y for Exp mode, z and w for Linear mode.