Unity VFX Graph – Magic Effects – Intermediate Level

On July 28, 2021

Release date:2021, May 8

Author:The GAP Academy, Gabriel Aguiar

Skill level:Intermediate

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

This course is all about the creation of Visual Effects with Unity Visual Effect Graph. You will create an Ability Set for a game character called Thunderlord.

You’ll learn how to use Visual Effect Graph from basic to intermediate. We will have a look at the workflow of this powerful node-based-tool and start with some quick and basic exercises to get started, like some sparks. Then we will move on to intermediate and advanced effects creation, an ability set composed of:

Ability 01: Projectile – Projectile with Trails, Warm-up effect, Impact and Hammer Glow;

Ability 02: Earthshatter – Earthshatter effect, Hammer Trails and Hammer Glow;

Ability 03: Hammer Punch – Hammer Punch effect, Hammer Trails and Hammer Glow;

Ability 04: Thunderstorm – Thunderstorm AoE, Lightning Strike effect, Warm-up effect, Falling Projectiles effect.

While you create this advanced effects, you will learn stuff like:

1) Use Shader Graph and create practical shaders for game effects;

2) Create original Textures from scratch;

3) Make some awesome Trails;

4) Create hand-painted Flipbook Animations;

5) Create Smoke with Blender;

6) Fracture Objects with Blender;

7) And much more.

With this course you will have the closest real life experience possible to the industry of Visual Effects creation in a Game Development scenario.

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01 Introduction
001 Introduction

02 VFX Grapf Overview
001 VFX Graph vs Particle System (Shuriken)
002 Getting Ready for VFX Graph
003 VFX Graph – Overview
004 VFX Graph – Sparks
005 VFX Graph – Collisions + World and Local Spaces
006 VFX Graph – Trigger Events

03 Thunderlord Project
001 Project Setup
002 Project Overview
003 Spawn Abilities Script Overview

04 Ability 01_ Projectile Hammer
001 Projectile Hammer Beginning
002 Adding Particles
003 Lightning Flipbook – The First 4 Frames
004 Lightning Flipbook – In Between Frames
005 Lightning Flipbook – Adding Glow and Blur
006 Lightning Flipbook – Last Frames
007 Lightning Flipbook – Exporting the Flipbook
008 Adding the Lightning Flipbook to the Projectile Hammer
009 Projectile Tail
010 Scroll Shader
011 Adding Light
012 Projectile Impact
013 Projectile Warm-up
014 Hammer Glow
015 HUD Marker
016 HUD Marker Texture
017 Projectile Impact Improvements
018 Heat Distortion Shader
019 Projectile Warm-up Improvements
020 Adding SFX