Hello everyone,
My name is Jo Lu, I just started into diving into vfx and am very new at it. I have a few samples of soem fx I made for a school project recently. I wanted to get some feedback on where to go and what improvements to make. Any feedback you may have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks =D
Pretty cool stuff. I don’t have much feedback for you since I’m still pretty new to this stuff myself. I’m curious about how the laser beam effect works though - did you draw that beam with a line renderer and animate its size or is it just a particle system?
I used Unity’s particle system,
I created 2 intersecting .fbx with the pivot on one side for the beam
In the particle system I set the starting scale to .2, .2, 6 so its stretched
In the size over time I have the x and y scale up dramatically in the beginning and drop while the Z scales exponentially to give the laser feel
Oh cool, makes a lot of sense. So if I’m understanding correctly, the mesh is basically just a cylinder, and you have two overlapping ones with the outer one slightly transparent to make it look like there’s a core and an outer glow. That’s a cool technique, I’ve mostly been doing my lasers with line renderers but haven’t thought about doing it with meshes.
Sorry, I wrote it wrong what I meant to say was 2 intersecting planes in a .fbx. Included image of what I meant:
I discovered that it was less tris using planes vs cylinder
Everything else was right
