Tech Art Class - One Shader To Rule Them All

Project Files: https://simonschreibt.gumroad.com/l/fpkyz
WIP Thread: https://realtimevfx.com/t/simon-trumpler-vfx-sketchbook/4177/305
I gave a Tech Art Class for students of the SAE school (If you would like having me giving this class to your students/team, let's talk!) with the goal to create only ONE shader which can be reused for MANY different effects (fire, smoke, water, item flare, forcefield, projectile trail, ads). This should save the students a lot of time during production. The idea was to keep the shader relatively simple. The main ingredients are 2 gray scale textures (one gives structure, the other one serves as mask), 1 normal map (for distortion & refraction), 1 LUT for colorizine the gray scale values and features like controlling the UV distortion on X, Y and over time.
The course focuses mainly on the shader creation and covered the following topics (during SAE course I didn't had enough time to cover everything because we only had 3h):
- Shader Basics
- Math (multiply, fract, sin)
- Getting variation by using time, UVs, World Position and custom data like textures
- Linear/sRGB
- UV Tiling, Offset & Distortion (over time)
- Refraction
- LUTs
- Alpha Erosion via Smootstep
- Depth Fade
- Fesnel

3rd Party Meshes
https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/sacrifice-altar-model-1343537
https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/comercial-board-3ds-free/545538
https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/torii-gateway-obj-free/833275
https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/balta-3d-model-1308084

3rd Part Textures
https://luos.gumroad.com/l/bouSt
https://www.nielsdewitte.be/index.php?page=Pages%2FVFExtra.php