Questions tagged [graphic-effects]
Graphics effect is a video effect which requires non-trivial usage of standard graphics library calls, or custom graphics processing algorithms like shaders to achieve the required result.
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How to blend 2 different metahumans seemlessly during animation
I'm new on this site so please let me know if this is the wrong section to post to.
I have an idea for a whole bunch of animations revolving around 2 semi-identical twins that live in the same body. I ...
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How can I dynamically change the skin and blush colours of an animated sprite's face in Unity?
I want to achieve this effect in unity when processing my sprites
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I was thinking that I could use two color pickers to tell a shader only to create a gradient if two colors share a ...
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Permanent blood spots
I want my blood decals to stay on the map until I'm done in that zone, which is probably 5 minutes.
The issue is that at the moment, I spawn 1 blood decal at each particle collision, so after killing ...
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How can I hide the interior frontfaces of a portal when viewed from the outside?
I'm trying to follow This tutorial for a portal mask shader. It's an awesome effect but it comes with a couple of caveats. The shader as he designs it can only exist in a bubble, as:
The portal is ...
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How to outline animated mesh in Godot?
this little freak, is roughly 1.3 meters tall so around 4.2 feet. In first person he is decently easy to spot but in third person he blends too easily with ground so even if he is only 4-5 meters ...
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How to add weapon trail to sword swings?
I want to add the translucent blue swish following the sword when it is swung, but I don't even know what to call it, so I can't search it.
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How to make a backdrop that supports different grid effects?
I am learning UE5 using a course on Udemy, and also trying to build a simple (as I thought) project of myself.
The game is billiards with top-down perspective. I want to make a billiards table that ...
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How can I change the color of a BitMapFont that is already generated by FreeTypeFontGenerator in render
I'm trying to make a start loading screen with Fade In effect.
I've made a simple Animation generator and it works fine when I apply the alpha value for the sprite
,but when I try to apply the same ...
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How to launch a soccer ball on a parabolic path in a 2.5D game?
I am trying to make simple 2D soccer game in Unity, but I feel a top-down view in such simple games isn't as exciting as the pseudo-3D view in games like Kunio Kun Nekketsu Soccer League.
I am trying ...
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Jedi Outcast VR Port - Lightsaber effect
Dr. Beef's VR port of Jedi Outcast has the best implementation of the lightsaber effect I've seen. It's far better than the lightsaber effect in ILM's own Vader Immortal.
The lightsaber in Vader ...
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How can I simulate lamp flicker in a Unity shader?
I want a game object to keep its brightness (modulating mainColor, like mainColor * brightness) most of the time, but sometimes ...
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How are particle wave animations implemented?
There is a common sci-fi effect trope I see where luminescent particles move in a way that gives an appearance of waves, like in this Assassin's Creed loading screen or this image
A trivial ...
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How to render a block being carved by a milling machine?
I'm making a simulation of a milling machine - something a bit like this diagram:
At the top there is a cylinder mesh representing the milling tool. Below it is a cube mesh representing the material ...
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Create after image effect following behind character
I'm currently trying to achieve an effect like this, except wirh a 3D character:
I've tried a variety of of techniques but have fallen short, I feel like I'm on the right track but just missing ...
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How to make shader graph RenderTexture deform effect more accurate?
I have followed a PolyToots tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T8cKTQrMxk) to make a 'rug deform' effect.
This is great except for that the vertices aren't deforming faithfully enough to ...
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What is the use of multiple vertex color sets
I noticed that Assimp supports meshes with multiple vertex color sets, but what is the use of multiple vertex color sets? I mean are multiple vertex color sets are really used in any games, and if yes,...
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The motion blur is no longer working in my post-processing effects
I'm using Unity 2019.3.7f1 to create a game. Some time ago I used the post-processing effects v2 package to add motion blur to my game, and it was working. Since then, I disabled these effects while I ...
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Name & explain shimmering patterns seen when looking at a grid of objects from a distance
If you place a large number of identical elements in a regular pattern, then look at them from a distance, they will make strange warped grid patters that shift as you move your viewpoint, as shown in ...
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How do I implement this distortion ripple effect?
I would like to implement the following running effect in Unity. When the player character moves, it creates some sort of rings around it to give the impression of high speed.
I have searched for ...
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2D sidescroller water surface shader
I am implementing a little 2d fishing side-scroller as a hobby. Here is a screenshot of the work-in-progress:
I have implemented a underwater distortion effect in a GLSL fragment shader, but I have ...
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Increase opacity of a floor plane along the path travelled by a cube
I have a plane object (a normal Unity 3D Plane, but it can be a complex floor in the future) and a cube is moving on the plane.
Currently, the plane is transparent. I want to make the plane opaque as ...
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How can I make yarn visuals similar to those in "Kirby's Epic Yarn"?
I'd like to know how I can achieve the effect seen in Kirby's Epic Yarn:
All characters use "yarn" as outline which moves to simulate movement etc.
How can such an effect be achieved? Could ...
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Set Fog Color to match dynamic skybox in URP
I have a dynamically changing procedural skybox. That's a procedural skybox with dynamic day and night cycle.
The main directional light keeps rotating over time by a script, to achieve the day/night ...
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Techniques to make 3D models to look like oil paintings
I intend to develop a fantasy 3D game focused on warships, with a look similar to oil paintings.
The reasoning behind this decision is that the art style would allow for a sense of wonder and ...
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How to make Weather Particle System convincing when Parented to player?
I have a Particle System of a blizzard effect and I'm trying to make it look convincing that the player is really walking through a blizzard as they traverse the map.
Because it is a small particle ...
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match-3 Board border
I'm new to unity and I'm currently working on a match-3 game.
I know there are a lot of similar games and that's why I would like to know what is the best way to autogenerate border of a match-3 board ...
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Approximate doom/heretic-style freelook distortion with modern graphics APIs
Currently working on a doom-like engine with fewer technical limitations, and looking into rendering techniques. I'm aware doom's a raycaster, and I want to capture a similar look but with modern ...
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Spawning noise-based fire effect with code, no prefabs
i'm a beginner in Unity, and I'm taking a Graphics course about algorithms of procedural textures/modeling.
I would like to write a noise-based fire shader like this one:
I would like to then be able ...
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How to make under-construction sprites have blueprint graphics?
In my game, every placeable object and structure will only be placed as a blueprint, which the characters will then automatically build.
An example from "RimWorld":
Objects placed as ...
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Occluding spawned object behind obstacles in AR/MR
I have spawned the object in Unity AR foundation and as expected, the object is always in front of the actual world objects.
So if I spawn cube under the table and look from above, the cube is going ...
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How to desaturate and blur the game world when paused in Unreal Engine 4
I am creating the pause menu for my game. I want the screen to turn black and white and blurry when it is paused, much like Left4Dead. But the only special effect I can find is background blur. How ...
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How can I achieve this "stroked lines" effect?
I have a collection of arbitrary vertices and edges that are connected, but which do not necessarily form triangles. These vertices and edges mostly fall along a flat plane, but have some height ...
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Curved 3D health bar
Hello I would like to make a curved healthbar (like if it is drawn on a cylinder). See the spatial UI element left to the shoulder of the character on this photo for what I mean.
There is a main ...
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Is there a simpler way to simplify the if statement? [closed]
The code below generate angle and radius based brightness gradient. As you can see I need to use 3 if statement to define 3 circle, wonder is there a single code that can create nth circle ...
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Help understanding radar sweep effect in shader code
Several days ago I asked about this question: How to construct a propeller clock in Unity? But I don't understand how the answer works.
I have 0 knowledge about shaders, so I picked up a tutorial to ...
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How to construct a propeller clock in Unity?
I am considering the possibility of using Unity to construct a propeller clock like this one (also called a persistence of vision or POV display).
It's an array of LEDs on a PCB board connected to ...
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XNA configuration on legacy code
Background:
Our biomechanics and Advanced Surgical Technologies Lab wrote a surgery navigation system desktop application in C# around ten years ago. One of its major functions uses XNA Game Studio 4....
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Verlet rope between two moving points connected with a spring joint?
I'm connecting two moving rigidbodies using a spring joint in Unity. Between them, a rope will be rendered using a line renderer and I want it to move realistically as the joints move, without physics....
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How to make player walk through layers of 2d fog smoothly?
I'm trying to recreate the fog effect that Graveyard Keeper has, with several layers, so taller objects will get less fog. I'm using the approach described here:
the devs post on Gamasutra
The problem ...
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How to inflate and deflated an object?
I'm trying to find a way to make an object inflated/deflated in Unity,
So I can change parameters via script and control a range of 0-100% inflation.
I have seen that there is a way to get this exact ...
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Using a mesh stencil with 2D lighting in the Universal Render Pipeline
I've followed the CodeMonkey tutorial on using a dynamic mesh as a stencil for a field of view or visibility polygon effect, and have got it working using the latest version of Unity and its Universal ...
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How can I color in only specific regions of my scene?
I am interested in having large portions of my game be grayscale, but I'd like certain parts of the scene to have full color.
Something like this:
Is this something that is possible with shaders or ...
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How can I morph between images in real time?
So, I need to be able to make a picture slowly transition into another picture, not as a transparency fade, but as a morph.
And I need that in real time.
More on "morphs":
When you outline ...
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What is the term for making an object transparent when it blocks the player's view?
In many games if your camera gets too close to certain objects, or the object starts to block your screen, the game turns it transparent so you can still see.
What is the name for this effect? It is ...
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How to make borders glow in a 2D game?
How can I make the borders (stationary / non moving) of my 2d Unity game glow?
I need a method that is not so expensive. I've read that post processing is very expensive, but I quite liked adding ...
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3D visual effects on videos
I'm trying to get some hands-on experience with 3D visual effects on videos. Similar to those AR apps, I want to add a 3D model with effects, say a dragon, to a video. Something like this famous demo:
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How to pixelate scene including bloom?
I am currently using URP to add bloom to my particle systems. The problem I'm facing is that I can't pixelate the game. I have tried to implement several methods to post pixelate (via shaders and ...
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Making an ice cream or icing effect as shown in GIF below
How can I make an effect like filling a cone with soft serve ice cream, or putting icing on a cake. I want to have the real icing effect shown in the https://twitter.com/D_M_Gregory/status/...
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Star glowing shader graph
How could I make a shader graph that makes spheres that look like on this image? I'm new to shaders and I don't know how to do this. Also, if it's possible I would like a property to change the ...
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SSAO in my unity games has flickering lines at the top and right side of the screen
I've tried both the built-in unity ambient occlusion that comes with the post-processing stack, as well as another one ported from the Microsoft MiniEngine by someone: https://github.com/keijiro/...
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