Unity VFX Graph - Shield Effect Tutorial 

Honestly, it's one of my favorites! Made it available in the UAS too: assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/particles/vfx-graph-sci-fi-shield-vol-1-207741?aid=1100l3Jhu Oh and check out this Orb Explosion Course: www.udemy.com/course/unity-visual-effect-graph-beginner-to-intermediate/?couponCode=17.99_UNTIL_20-09

For anyone having issue with the unwrapping part and need the faces to stack instead of split, after initially unwrapping, open the UV unwrap menu again and the bottom option should say "reset". Choosing this solved the issue for me

Hey Gabriel, once again an amazing tutorial. I'm a developer at a smaller indie studio and your lessons have been absolutely indispensable. I've even paid for and taken some of your tutorials. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and skill, as always great work :)

Thanks a bunch. I followed other shader graphs tutorials and people never really explain what each things they add truly do, but you did a great job with that. Thumbs up too for showing the full process (3D modeling, texturing....)

I appreciate your effort, but from the optimization perspective, branch node is best avoided and substituted. You can check which side the pixel is facing by performing a dot function between the vertex/pixel normal and view direction (literally fresnel), so positive value is front-facing and negative value is back-facing, then use this value to perform a step function for both facing colors.

Hey man your last tutorials have all been awesome!!! Keep up the great work.

Fun fact! When you subdivide a mesh, then dissolve the original edges, the name for the resulting geometry is called the _dual._

Excellent! Definitely one of your best tutorials. Thank you!

This is so inspiring as always. I can't wait to try it.

Great tutorial, thanks! When the sinus is negative, faces overlap a bit, so I add +1 to the sinus node to correct this.

I am using Unity 2022.3.5ff1 and there is a problem with VFX graph at 13:33. The solution is the following. 1. Go to the shadergraph of the shield . 2. Look for the 'Graph Inspector'. 3. Go to the 'Graph Settings' tab. 4. Under the Universal panel, enable the 'Support VFX Graph' at the very bottom.

Good day sir. I can't get my uv to unwrap like yours. It just gives me a flat tile of the mesh. It doesn't even overlap the polygons and hexagons

새로운 블랜더 튜토리얼 파트 고마워! 예전 영상을 따라하기 힘들어서 슬펐는데 이걸 보고 할 수 있을 것 같다! udemy 강의도 매우 고맙다! Thanks for the new Blender tutorial part! It was sad because it was hard to follow the old video, but I think I can do it after watching this! Thank you very much for the udemy lecture too!

Thanks for the great tutorial, as someone who has no idea how to create effects, this is great and clear!

the hit effect is coool

This was awesome! Thank you so much

I love your course, i have bought it just today, respect to unity users but we have the right to ask for videos for unreal engine 4 as well 😁, hope ill see more videos soon, i don't have a reason to sub now cause most of your videos are for unity users, but i hope ill do in the future when there is enough videos about unreal engine, thanks a lot

this was insane

I have followed the steps in the 3d object part and when I unwrap, there are full of small pentagons and hexagons, and then the UV exported is also full of small pentagons and hexagons...I dont know how to export a UV map which only contains 1 large pentagon and 1 large hexagon...

Could you please share how can your shield components move separately? I follow your guide but I can only make them expand and collapse together

unfortunately I suck at blender and I am unable to follow you.. I do EXACTLY as you describe but the UV generation does random stuff and I can't get it to work, this is so frustrating

I remember getting lost in your original tutorial. Certainly my fault. I couldn't make the second sphere visible or achieve any movement. Ill look forward to following this later. Thank you.

When trying to unwrap the isosphere after cleaning up the geometry and deleting the existing UV map, I don't get 2 overlapping UV islands simply by clicking Unwrap, I instead get 162 separate identical islands that are spread across the entire UV map space. Am I missing something here?

Hello, i have an issue with the ripples, when the ripples vfx is activated it shows the impact point AND the entire sphere. I want to only render the impact point.

Cool.. I love it

I'm trying to understand if there is actually reason to multiply front and back to gain alpha? Won't it be simpler just to lower some elements opacity on texture itself and use alpha directly from Sampler node? Or am I missing something?

Thanks a lot!

Eae, Gabriel. Eu to tendo dificuldades no blender na parte do UV, no meu mapa UV ta aparecendo varios hexagonos pequenos ao em vez de grandes como no seu video. Como posso fazer igual o seu ?

I'm newbie to Unity, does this package on unity asset store provide prefabs? I just want to drag and drop and use the shield for my characters...

Hey, I have to be honest, and don't understand how you get different pulsing/breathing effect? You didn't cover that, since it just follows the sin function...

What you think about Houdini FX and unity to make a vfx for a 2D game or a 3D game? is it a good workflow?

I really love your tutorial but I always wondered how to make the colors more vibrant? with your method, all the color look pretty pastels.

I. HAVE. BEEN. WAITING. FOR. THIS. By the way, would it be possible to have the shield distort whats inside it when looked feom outside?

When I apply a material create from Graphshader to my model, I only got the pink color. That color does not change even thought I update the color from shader. Could you please give any advance?

Opa tudo bem? Eu começei a fazer vfx hoje então não tenho nada configurado, seja o unity, blender, etc.. Eu creio que a skybox do meu unity seja diferente da sua então talvez por esse motivo o meu shield não esteja brilhando e tambem parece bem diferente do seu, alguma ideia de como eu posso arrumar isso?

Hey I have a quick question/problem. So whenever I try assigning the alpha like you did at 9:25 the object just goes completely invisible due to it. I'm using the exact nodes you are and it just wont appear.

Randomly moving faces -> imgur.com/a/B99NSAV My settings, VertexAmount - 1, 1, 1 VertexFrequency - 5 Noise - 25 Scroll 0.5 , 0.5

I would advise against telling people to use N-Gons. It's more costly for engines to render because they have to dynamically subdivide and draw their own triangles/quads arbitrarily in runtime.

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Very cool

My material is coming pink whenever I create it. Where did I go wrong?

Useful tutorial, can it be apply to 2D?

dude this is awesome! thanks for this! I got a question . heck maybe an idea for a video. but how would you use Vfx with a 2d game? i looked into this, but i see its supported, but no one got tutorial on how to make vfx with 2d games, maybe you can make one for us? I would love to use the tutorial you made with lighting effects but in 2d ^_^

Very useful tutorial. In the tutorial the faces have just 1 UV tile for each hexagon/pentagon shape, but in the final view I assume he split all the faces into separate UV tiles in order to make them move independently, or did I miss something?

Hi, one question, how do I tell unity using VFX Graph when I want to remove the shield?

Hello, I have a question, why is mu sample texture background white ? my PNG is fine, I did everything like you did but it's not working ;/ Please help.

i have a problem in unity there is no shader graph there is only shader but which shader option do I choose

Awesome tutorial once again! Whilst I think VFX graph is awesome my project uses 2019 so I cant follow :(

Thanks Gabriel, you are dominating the VFX tutorials on youtube ! I have a question: at the end of the video, each face seems to be displacing randomly and independently from the other faces, How can I achieve something like this ?

There are some faces moving at different speed, does it need another uv graph to control it?

Hi, how do you move faces independently like it's shown in the last part of the video?

I'm pretty good at following instructions but I've been on this tutorial for 2hrs and I can't seem to get the shield to change any color at all it stays white no matter what I do to change things x__x, is there a setting I'm missing in Unity ? The Material Preview looks nice and I loaded it with the mesh on the Material Preview but after saving and viewing mesh in viewport its just white.

Nice tutorial but I have one problem because I don't have a shader Graph option at 14:06.

hello! i try to make same but for a mesh, is it possible? if yes can you tell me what i have to change please :)

I notice that in your shader you use the Is Front Face node multiple times. I had heard somewhere that if statements (which a branch essentially is) are really bad for shaders because the GPU predicts what instructions need to be loaded in advance, and a branch in the code can force the GPU to unload incorrectly predicted instructions and load new ones, which is slower. So obviously you need at least one in this case so you can differentiate between front and back, but surely it would be better to only use that node once and just connect it up to the other nodes?

In my Unity version (2021.3.10f1) inside Graphic Inspector, under Universal, there is no click box for Support VFX. What do I do in this case?

Good Job! Tried the previous one but I never got the hits to work on newer versions of Unity and had to go around and add an effect of the shield getting hit on the projectile itself so it would look like it was being generated from the shield.

Out of curiosity, do you ever run into problems using faces that have more sides than 4 or is it okay because you using the URP? Also is it possible to make the shield generate an impact animation? Like the tiles moving inwards causing a wave like effect around the shield from where the impact is?

I love you

Hello, I love you tutorials, will 100% support on Patreon, just one question, how you make faces moving in different speed?

nice

Hey gabriel, I also downloaded the version you are using, but I am getting a package manager error, any advice?

How do you get the islands to auto-stack?

is it possible to subdivide the mesh so that all the hexagons and pentagons are divided into triangles evenly? its so i could use one tiled texture! would appreciate the help Thank you so much

how did u make that projectile noize?

好厉害

at minute 14:00 when i create a visual effect and put in the shield shader, i see nothing in my scene.

my brain died here

I have a question ? Vfx graph VS Shader graph Which is more performance efficient and which is more easy to use

Keep it

Hey! I love your tutorials! ^^ Can I put you to the test? :) (Spoiler alert! Do NOT continue reading if you haven't seen wandavision completely!) I'd love to see a tutorial for any special effects in unity that replicate Scarlet Witch's chaos magic (WandaVision's are cool for example) Do you think you could do it? Thanks :D

Hey man can you make tutorial for fog of war with shader graph pls

Hey please make a tutorial about opencvsharp4 in unity.

14:41

This VFX graph stuff.. it can’t make it over to VRChrat, can it?

Hi Gabrial, I've rewatched it multiple times, but for some reason my alpha channel isnt working, every exposure level is blowing out the entire mesh on all faces not just the white areas on the UV's any reason why?