Unity features a robust Particle System where you can simulate moving liquids, smoke, clouds, flames, magic spells, and a whole slew of other effects. In this tutorial, you'll get a high level overview of the Particle System and its features, so that you can start getting ideas for your own projects.

Adding a light to a Particle System illuminates the environment and objects around the particles and makes the effect more impactful. In this tutorial, you will create a firefly effect that uses a light to illuminate the environment.

Adding a light to a Particle System illuminates the environment and objects around the particles and makes the effect more impactful. In this tutorial, you will create a firefly effect that uses a light to illuminate the environment.

The Shape module defines the surface from which particles are emitted and can drastically change the appearance of your particle effect. All the shapes have properties that define their dimensions, except for Mesh, which will follow the details of the mesh you select. In this tutorial, we’ll explore the options in the Shape module.

In the Particle System, you can use the Texture Sheet Animation module to select images for the Particle System to use in an animated effect. In this workflow, we’ll set up a Texture Sheet animation to randomly spawn different star images on the particles in a single emitter.

In this project, you will learn how to make fire, smoke, snow, and rain using Unity’s Particle System.

Optimization is a broad topic and how you optimize depends heavily on your specific project. This tutorial should be read as an introduction to optimization tips and suggestions rather than a step-by-step guide that guarantees optimized particle effects for your mobile projects. The process of optimizing particle effects for mobile devices can change depending on the project and can be a complicated task. In this tutorial, we will talk about common pitfalls and optimization considerations that will help you begin the process of optimizing your particle effects for mobile applications.

Starting with Unity 2018 LTS, meshes can spawn particles in a predictable order, dictated by the order of the vertices/faces. In this tutorial, we’ll emit particles from the surface of a plane, which has a simple ordered mesh.

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.

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.