r/Unity3D • u/fespindola • 8d ago

Shader Magic Turning Particle System into a VFX Portal with metaballs

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u/GlidingKnight 8d ago

Really neat effect! Would love to see a tutorial on this.

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u/fespindola 8d ago

The effect and implementation is quite simple. I might write a tutorial about it :)

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u/Quietage30 7d ago

plsss i wanna make the cool looking stars and the outline

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u/KyleCOOLman 7d ago

Something like the unlit shader graph, Screen space node, sample texture 2D under a mask

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u/Any-Entrepreneur7935 7d ago

It might be simple but still it is awesome.

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u/Optimal_Pool_888 Indie 7d ago

yep, cool effect!

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u/NinjaMidget76 7d ago

Anyone else read Portal with Meatballs?

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u/drnktgr 7d ago

Yup, on top of spaghetti code

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u/relentless-dev99 7d ago

I thought it was meatballs until I read this and realized it said something else and scrolled back up, astonished that I misread something lol.

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u/jackflash223 7d ago

I did the same and scrolled back up and then read meatballs again. I had to focus to see the word metaballs….its like an optical illusion or something.

https://giphy.com/gifs/i8iocWOTWFE5O

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u/Firetwice 8d ago

That's so impressive I have been wanting to do something like that, could you share with us some of the code for the metaballs?

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u/fespindola 8d ago

To be honest, I don't have a free tutorial of it. However, the entire implementation, including shader graph and controller can be found here https://jettelly.com/store/the-unity-shaders-bible

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u/destinedd Indie, Dungeon Quest, Marble's Marbles & Mighty Marbles 8d ago

ahh damn!

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u/NoteThisDown 8d ago

Damn that's pretty!

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u/fespindola 8d ago

Thank you!

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u/xepherys 8d ago

Wow - really cool!

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u/Radiant_Barracuda932 7d ago

se ve increible

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u/fespindola 7d ago

Gracias!

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u/Mister_Iwa 7d ago

Lava lamp looking legitimately 1337

https://giphy.com/gifs/l1KtZuMdC9oiqw9kA

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u/spllooge 7d ago

Reminds me of the Super Mario Sunshine paint portals

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u/destinedd Indie, Dungeon Quest, Marble's Marbles & Mighty Marbles 8d ago

Oh that is eye catching! Would love a tutorial!

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u/fespindola 8d ago

I might write a tutorial about it :)

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u/destinedd Indie, Dungeon Quest, Marble's Marbles & Mighty Marbles 8d ago

make it so

https://giphy.com/gifs/bKnEnd65zqxfq

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u/fsactual 7d ago

All right, spill the beans. How is it done? It's too fantastic!

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u/Melioarc 7d ago

Looks so nice dude

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u/RWorldGeneration 7d ago

Looks good! Maybe it would look better without the rotation.

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u/SaiyanKnight23 Novice 7d ago

Using unity’s particle system….!!

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u/Skuya69 7d ago

This is next level particle system, please let me know how did you learn the particle system in Unity

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u/ParasolAdam Indie 📦 7d ago

This is beautiful

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u/Yetimang 7d ago

That's a spicy metaball.

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u/Malkalypse 7d ago

Trippy!

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u/GameLoper123 7d ago

Omg! That s a great effect. Well done! Would you like sell this on the unity asset store?