Explosions In Unity VFX Graph + Shader Graph

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In this video we will be looking at how to make explosions in Unity with VFX graph and with the help of shader graph too! I have been working pretty hard at improving my VFX skills, I really think VFX take games to the next level, and many indie games fall short of having that level of polish that really makes them stand out.

We make use of a couple of really nice VFX graph nodes in this video - my favorites being the conform to sphere force node, and the turbulence node. The conform to sphere force node creates an outward force in the shape of sphere, I imagine I will be having loads of fun with this node in the future, as it makes it really easy to give the impression of something shooting outward from a central point, like you would see in an explosion - duh. And the turbulence node is an extremely useful noise creation node - which we make use of to create some embers to really bring our explosion effect to life.

We use shader graph to help with a quick flipbook animation, it will take in a sprite sheet texture and use a time node to flip through the tiles in the sprite sheet based on the provided sheet size. I will make a quick separate tutorial for that as well in case people are looking for it elsewhere, and not in an explosion VFX tutorial.

You can find the entire Stickalungu project here: https://github.com/Tvtig/Stickalungu And direct link to the effect: https://github.com/Tvtig/Stickalungu/tree/main/Assets/Art/Effects/Explosions You can find the standalone explosion texture here: https://thavendren.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/explosion.tif

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