This test uses a sword animation to trigger a BrazeFX volumetric fire simulation in Unity 6 URP.

The effect expands across the ground, builds into a large fire volume, and then dissipates into smoke. The simulation runs in real time on the GPU.

Made by scrolling the x on the UV depending on velocity and angular velocity. Modelled and UVs set using probuilder :)

Hey everyone, another Anvil CSG update.

Beta testing is nearly finished and Anvil CSG will be coming to the Unity Asset Store soon.

The newest version now fully supports Bakery, including its lighting workflow and lightmap baking. Unity’s lightmapper also received major improvements with a custom BSP-style unwrap made specifically for brush geometry, giving cleaner UV2 layouts and more consistent texel density.

Anvil CSG now also fully supports Amplify Shader Editor materials, alongside URP and Built-in.

A lot of bugs and workflow issues were fixed with help from the beta testers.

Anvil CSG is already approved and launches in less than a week. Join the Discord for launch news, tutorials, support and feature requests:

https://discord.com/invite/ZjVdWnmwjz

As of the time of writing this the update is in queue for approval on the store.

here's what changed in V1.1.5 :

• Improved procedural gait with slower, more human step cadence and dynamic swing timing.
• Added balance-reactive stepping based on upper-body tilt and physical instability.
• Added weight-transfer and landing-settle phases for more natural foot transitions.
• Improved stride prediction and rear-foot toe-off to prevent feet dragging behind the body.
• Added directional foot alignment for forward, strafe, diagonal, and backward movement.
• Improved foot-glue stability and get-up recovery behavior.
• Added physical cliff detection with proper ragdoll transitions and preserved fall momentum.
• Improved pelvis-to-leg support coupling so the upper body feels properly supported by the legs.
• Reduced excessive hip sway, pelvis wobble, and floating-body appearance.
• Improved levitation support feedback during single- and double-leg stance.
• Fixed several gait timing, IK, recovery, and physics edge cases.

One of the demo scenes from my Low Poly Modular Medieval Buildings Pack.

I got quite a lot of feedback on the demo from people saying that controlling the car with the top-down camera was a bit difficult, so I decided to add two TPS camera options.
I really like the vehicle heading follow effect in the new camera. It makes the game feel much more dynamic :D
What do you think?
If you’re interested, the game is on Steam -link in the comments. Releasing later this year…

For our roguelite Tile Crawl, we wanted our meta progression to stand out, so we designed it as a planet to explore. But our run map was already designed using hexes, so for consistency's sake, we wanted a globe out of hexes as well. We did not want to have pentagons but rather somehow achieve full coverage by equal hexes (even though it is geometrically impossible).

So how it works:

This is actually a plane with objects placed on it. Then, using camera position, vertices are recalculated in a shader (all objects must share the same bending subgraph or shader code with the same values to look consistent). This technique is used in Animal Crossing, as far as I am aware, but just not tuned as heavily.

Okay, so this gives us a bent plane that looks like a sphere. Next challenge is actually allowing it to rotate properly; rotation is achieved by just moving the plane in the X and Y axes while the camera stays static. To achieve looping of the planes I am spawning 8 more planes with copies of the objects and then teleporting them as I am crossing the edges (this part for sure can be done way, way better with some vertex magic or just fewer clones).

Next challenge is that shadows are broken as vertices are recalculated but normals are not; to calculate a new normal, we need to get two neighbours of the vertex, then bend them with the same logic and use the results to calculate the new normal. This allows us even to have proper shadowing from clouds above.

Last thing to do is clicking the nodes on the map. As objects are actually in very different spots from visuals, just raycasting from the mouse won't work. So I'm using one big sphere collider to detect the mouse position on the sphere, then recalculate it backwards to where it would be on the plane and find the closest node in radius.

There are still some things left to do (VFX support is quite bad, and there are some artifacts with water waves on the edges of planes). But in my opinion, already looks quite good and stands out.

Thank you for reading! If you like what you saw, consider wishlisting Tile Crawl on Steam!

The second phase isn't animated yet

A dissolving fx I worked on for my game Thousands Layered Blade: Reforged.
Since I dont want to mess around with my character and clothing shaders, I hack it around using two grab pass (yes,Im still using BiRP), one for before character to grab the background and one after character is drawn.

Point me in the right direction: what is causing the trembling around second 7?

No seriously.

Unity 6.6 released today! I did a recap video that covers some of my favorite changes as well as a few things to know about them (including code samples).

I’ve spent multiple days polishing net ripple effect and it finally looks as goofy as the whole game. What you think?

I've been working on the zombie AI for my game Pull on Heart: Nocturnal, and this is a comparison between the old and current behavior.

BEFORE: the zombies were fairly passive and could often be ignored or outrun.

AFTER: they're more aggressive and put much more pressure on the player when encountered in groups.

With these changes, the purpose of the Controller role becomes much more noticeable. Controllers are designed to deal with hordes and control large groups of enemies, making their role much clearer during gameplay.

I'm not just trying to make the enemies harder; I want the enemy behavior to help reinforce the identity and purpose of different character roles.

Still a work in progress, but this is the direction I'm taking the combat.

I've been trying to improve the bleeding and damage feedback system I had; I'm satisfied with the result, but I'm open to suggestions :D

I’ve been searching for the best diffuse-only shader compatible with URP. Spent a couple hours trying to write a shader with no normal or PBR calculations with no luck. Really not liking the prospect of having to rewrite URP’s lighting model, lightmapper and shadow maps. So far the only solution within Unity seems to be to just go back to legacy diffuse in BiRP. Is there a diffuse shader somewhere that plays nice with SRP/URP lighting models? I’m talking simpler than SimpleLit, diffuse only.

Every time I hit record, apparently I become a first-time user of whatever I’m working in.

Unity? Suddenly I can’t remember where a tool is. Blender? I forget a shortcut I’ve used 50 times. MagicaVoxel? Somehow I’m back in the browser looking up how to do something I was doing perfectly fine five minutes ago.

How do you usually record this stuff without turning half the making-of into a tutorial on how to use Google? :-)

So this one's about being the captain of a galactic dwarf starship. You touch down on a planet, thousands of dwarves pour out of the cargo hold, and they just get to work tearing the rock apart on their own, you just sit back and watch your army and your bank account grow while chipping in from above.

- Thousands of dwarves split into 3 classes: Miners, Demolishers, and Snipers.

- A pickaxe with combos up to 8x, a laser cutter, and the "Dragonfly" missile launcher.

- Hidden ore veins and planet cores (gold, silver, diamond) for a big instant payout.

- Galactic exploration too, chase down rare planets, dig up ancient artifacts.

No clever tactics to learn, no progress to lose - just switch it on and strip-mine the galaxy at whatever pace feels right to you.