Unity's Visual Effect Graph (VEG) playground
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- Unity 2019.3+: Both
High Definition Render Pipeline
andUniversal Render Pipeline
are supported - Unity 2018.3+: Only
High Definition Render Pipeline
(mostly for PC, console) is supported - Any Unity versions older than 2018.3: Unavailable
- Unity 2019.4.1f1
- Universal Render Pipeline 7.3.1
- Install VEG 7.3.1 via Package Manager
- Create a new VEG via context menu
- Drag VEG into scene
- Click Edit to open VEG window
- Edit real-time
- Context: Make up a chain [ Spawn -> Initialize -> Update -> (Quad) Output ]
- Spawn:
- When to start this chain ?
- How many particles will be emitted ?
- When each particle will be emitted ?
- Initialize:
- Max particles (Capacity) ?
- Initial position, rotation, scale, velocity, ...
- Lifetime
- Update: How will particles be updated over time ?
- (Quad) Output:
- How to render each particles ? (mesh, material, shader, texture, color ... )
- Facing behavior (Billboard ...)
- Spawn:
- Block: Is used to customize context
- System: Is the chain [ Spawn -> Initialize -> Update -> (Quad) Output ]
- Node: Custom nodes to feed value to blocks
- VFX Toolbox:
- Image Sequencer to make flipbook texture sheet
- Houdini plugin to convert Point Cache, Volume Exporter file to use in Unity
- Vector Field examples (.vf files), could be used as Texture3D in Unity
- Texture3D Preview: Preview Texture3D which Unity does not support
- Vector Field Examples: Beautiful Vector Field showcases
- Vector Field Maker: Paid asset to preview, create and import Vector Field. Preview is rendered with arrows, which is more intuitive than Texture3D. This is just 1 of many tools.
- SDFr SDF Baker tool, to generate SDF asset (.vf file) from static mesh
Description | Link |
---|---|
Quick introduction | Creating explosive visuals with the VEG (Unity blog) |
Official tutorial | Introduction to the VEG in Unity 2018.4 |
Official documentation | VEG 9.0 |
Blocks list (Out-dated) | VEG 6.9 - Blocks list |
Samples | VEG Samples (Unity 2019) |