Visual Effects for Games in Unity - Stylized Explosion

Explore Unity's visual effects workflow with a look at the stylized explosion scene. Review post-processing in the global volume—bloom, vignette, motion blur, chromatic aberration—and practice particle system color changes.

Learn to animate an erosion Voronoi shader in Unity using vertex offset, driven by a noise-based lerp controlled by a vertex amount, time, and vertex speed for a wobbling explosion.

Create stylized explosion visual effects in Unity and seek review to refine your technique for game graphics.

Finish the impact flipbook in Krita by copying frames, centering them with guides at 1024 pixels, and pushing parts toward the center with the blender smear brush to ensure consistency.

Discover creating ground crack textures for explosion aftermath with material maker, a free node-based tool with 2D and 3D previews for Unity textures.

Use voronoi noise in material maker to generate crack lines, then apply a circle map mask and tone adjustments to shape a circular ground crack with glow.

Add glow to the ground crack by adjusting tones and masking, then export a Unity-ready material with albedo, normal, metallic, and ambient occlusion maps, enabling transparency.

Duplicate the particle system to create floating crack particles, set a start delay 1–2 seconds, adjust start speed and velocity over lifetime, and shape a spiral around the ground crack.

Finish the course and explore stylized visual effects in Unity, including shaders, VFX Graphs, explosions, and assets.