My aha moment came by reading Unity's 'built in shaders', which are faily simple. I found tutorials for shaders are for rendering things far more complex than a

My aha moment came by reading Unity's 'built in shaders', which are faily simple. I found tutorials for shaders are for rendering things far more complex than a simple sprite. You can download just the Unity shaders via the download dropdown: https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download/archive https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download/archive Those shaders give you (battle tested) base cases for really common functionality.