With Unity’s Visual Effect Graph, you can integrate Shaders from Shader Graph into your effects. Although currently an experimental feature, it provides new opportunities for enhancing the look and feel of your effects without doing any Shader coding. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create Shaders in Shader Graph that are compatible with the Visual Effect Graph, explore how properties can be integrated into your effects, and use these properties to drive your Shader effects. To demonstrate this, this tutorial uses a fireworks example effect.

With Unity’s Visual Effect Graph, you can trigger particles to spawn by using events. As an extension of this, you can trigger events using other systems. In this tutorial, you’ll learn what GPU Events are, explore their different blocks, and see an example of their use. Using a fireworks effect as an example, you will also learn how GPU Events can be applied in the systems of a fireworks effect.

This comprehensive VFX Graph course guides learners from basic principles to advanced functionalities. It introduces foundational elements and terminology, enabling participants to create and edit VFX Graph assets and construct simple visual effects. This course also covers advanced features, teaching learners to use decals for projecting effects onto geometry, generate signed distance fields (SDFs) with the SDF Bake Tool, and implement effects using SDFs. The course also covers creating volumetric fog to add atmospheric depth to visual effects. By the end of this course, learners will be adept at both basic and advanced VFX Graph techniques, capable of creating intricate visual effects for various applications.

Whether it’s a sci-fi hologram, a fire-breathing dragon or a rain-streaked window, the node-based effects and adaptive features in Visual Effect Graph empower you to create beautiful VFX in real-time. In this session, you’ll learn to author configurable, reusable next-generation effects, ranging from simple to complex without writing any code. VFX Graph handles millions of particles on the GPU. Inspired by the leading tools for film visual effects software, it empowers artists to create standout VFX for interactive experiences and more.

In this session, you will gain an understanding of Unity’s VFX Graph workflows and functions. You will learn how to construct a simple graph to simulate leaves falling from a tree, address common challenges (such as adding gravity and collisions), and explore practical techniques to produce high-quality, eye-catching visual effects. Who should attend: Anyone who wants to learn how to create and optimize visual effects with VFX Graph. Attendees should have a basic familiarity with Unity’s interface, but no prior experience with visual effects is required. This includes: Developers looking to incorporate eye-catching effects into their Unity games. Technical Artists wanting to streamline and optimize particle and visual effects.

In this tutorial, you will learn the fundamentals of creating particle-driven effects in VFX Graph and later move on to creating effects such as the snowstorm below.

With Unity’s Visual Effect Graph, you can choose where particles spawn using predefined volumes and shapes. In this tutorial, using a simple fireworks display, we’ll explore what a position block is and how it can be used to initialize particles. This tutorial also covers sequential spawning blocks and how you can use them to extend basic particle spawning.

In this project, you will learn how to apply and configure some of the key VFX properties in Unity’s Visual FX Graph tool. You will utilise GPU events to create realistic fireworks effects, and you will learn how to integrate Shader Graph with Visual Effects graph to enhance the look and feel of visual effects. Suggested Skill Level & Prerequisite Knowledge - It is expected participants should already have some understanding of the following: Unity Editor level: Beginner to Intermediate VFX Graph level: Beginner Shader Graph level: Beginner Optional: Complete Making Snow with VFX Graph and Make a Flag with Shader Graph projects

In this tutorial, you will learn the fundamentals of creating particle-driven effects in VFX Graph and later move on to creating effects such as the snowstorm below.

In this project, you will learn how to create a snow effect using the VFX Graph.