Unity Digest: VFX for Sci-Fi Games

1. Portal Effect

Get a cool pack from Knife Entertainment to create a portal in the game that players can see and/or walk through, especially if you're looking for an art style close to Valve's Portal series.

Some technical features:

• Game-ready VFX (open, idle and close states)
• Seamless camera transition
• Rigid bodies save their velocities
• Optimization (frustum culling)

2. Holo FX Pack

Add high-quality holograms and glitch FX with a pack from Oranged Keys. The pack’s content will perfectly fit in sci-fi games both as environment and gameplay elements. The pack also goes with textures and materials for each example and allows you to adjust the parameters according to your needs.

Features:

• Shader parameters exposed with a custom GUI.
• 1 geometry model example to showcase materials
• 10 high-quality FX materials using the Lite version of the shader
• 7 included high-quality FX materials using the Advanced version of the shader
• Clean holograms and glitch looks
• Good performance

3. Sci-Fi VFX

Grab a collection of sci-fi shaders from qine. You can edit all shaders in Amplify Shader Editor to adjust them to your game.

The pack goes with 16 prefabs of the following effects:

• blaster
• beam
• shield
• shield on object
• rockets
• hologram
• topographic scanner
• motion cloner, and more

Please, note that this pack works with Built-in Render Pipeline,  HDRP/URP is not supported.

4. Sci-Fi Portal and Machines Pack

Get a pack with sci-fi models and VFX from SineVFX. The pack includes walls and corners for hexagon-shaped rooms, sci-fi props, and machines. You can also adjust the shaders to match your game’s style. The texture size varies from 256px to 2048px.

Tris count of models:

• Platform: 1900
• Small Props:500-1500
• Walls and Corners: 400
• Machines: 3-10k
• Portal: 15k