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For the Creative Core VFX challenge, I created a magic rune storm using Unity’s VFX Graph. Glowing randomized glyphs fall from above with varying size, lifetime, movement, and spawn behavior.

Rather than having the runes simply disappear when they reach the ground, I used collision-triggered GPU Events to create a multi-stage magical impact. Each rune produces a bright impact flash, an expanding animated magic circle, and a burst of scattered energy particles at its collision position.

The effect uses flipbook animation, randomized rune selection, turbulence, gravity, color and size over lifetime, collision detection, GPU Events, and secondary particle systems to turn a simple falling-particle concept into a reactive environmental effect.

This project was a great opportunity to experiment beyond a basic Particle System and learn how multiple VFX Graph systems can work together to create one cohesive effect.