New artist need help for electric circle unity

[clem462]

Hi everyone !

I am new vfx artist, generaly i use unreal but for this project i need to start unity.

So, i try to do an electrical circle around a trap (vertical cylinder mesh)

i had some ideas to do this …

1. for my the best option, SHADER ! (i love work with shader and material).
   i do electrical shader and i apply on donuts around my cylinder.

i had made similar thing on unreal :

Procedural Lightning Material - UE4 Quickie Tutorial (Old UE4 Version)

So i open shader forge and i try to do something like that :

- YouTube

but the general shape of the ligthing is not good for me.

for shader i don t have more idea… maybe because i am not master with shaderforge…

2. Particule trail !

i animated 4 emiters around my trap, and i add noise on my trail.

i try lot of settings … bad result. here again maybe because i am not master with unity.

anyway, again i am not master, i have find lot of documentation, i have script for ligting between two points, i dont want 2D sprite…

in unreal i have beam emmiter, and procedural material, i unity i am lost !

Thank for reading, have nice day.

ps : Excuse my English if i did mistake.

[yunus]

Hi Clem462,

I am also coming from UE4 and working now with Unity. I had the same issue in the beginng with unity, it is different to work in unity compare to UE4.

For your beam issue, you can use the Line Render in Unity! Check out this tutorial!

Unity 3D Tutorial: Laser Beam Turrets using Particle System PREFAB DOWNLOAD INCLUDED FREE

In usual i am writting the shaders in unity, so i didn’t know shader forge.
In your unity version you missing the glow. Maybe this plugin could help you with that.

Create Bloom and Blur Effect in Unity 5 Tutorial (No Coding)

Cheers
Emre

[clem462]

thk a lot Yunus for the reply.

Actually, i use one shader with mesh.

here the video of effect in my game :

VFX electric trap

the quality is medium, in game the beam is more fast

all comments are welcome !