Unity VFX Graph - Electric Arc Tutorial

In this Unity tutorial let's create an Electric Arc with Visual Effect Graph. It's an awesome technique that opens a few interesting doors. An arc effect can be used in a chain reaction for example. Enjoy!

00:00 Intro
00:39 Particles in a Bezier Curve
04:48 Particle Strip
06:18 Improving Aspect
07:25 Controls for the Bezier Curve
09:06 Electricity Aspect (Noise 3D)
11:54 Adding Sparks
14:38 End Result

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[GabrielAguiarProd]

Such a cool way of creating an Electricity Arc!

[guitarbuddha]

I was trying this in URP. I know it's experimental but just for reference I had to enable Edit > Preferences > Visual Effects and enable Experimental Operators/Blocks. That allowed me to add the set custom attribute.

[EDGARMANUELNOVASPANIAGUAB-TSDV]

If anyone cant make the step of 2:22 u need to go to edit -> preferences -> visual Efects -> enable experimental / operator blocks -> restart Unity and that should do it

[devbobcz]

One small adition for this great tutorial :
"Set custom attribute" block in VFX graph is disabled, you must enable it in Operators/Blocks.

[devdelirium]

These videos give me extreme Brackeys vibes! Love it!

[TheUncutAngel]

I used a method like this for my lasso character a few months back. There are things about it I'd like to change, but that's just game design lol. great tut!

[ธีรวัฒน์ทิพย์สุนทรพงษ์]

earned a sub literally the best kid ever

[AspiringHeroGames]

This is awesome! I made one like this, so it'll be cool to update it with what you've shared here!

[UrbanArT]

Amazing tutorial, Gabriel! Got some inspiration from this and made my own, and the amount of power I feel with lightning arcs coming out of my vr hands is undescribable lmao.
By the way, any chance for a VFX Graph mirror? Is that even a thing? Or would it be more of a Shader graph thing?

[kotkotow]

Oh man Its awesome, good job, keep going :D, btw in your Pateron u have more stuff with those kind of magic tricks ? or every trick is hiding behind vfx documenation and your imagination :D ?

[beratcimen]

A Lightning Trail tutorial like The Flash's would be awesome!

[nhdeitmers]

Thank you for this great tutorial! Much appreciated, I learned a lot from it!

In my particular test scene I have an issue with the VFX disappearing from scene view at certain camera angles. It seems to be very sensitive to clipping in a way that other VFX are not. Zooming out solves the issue.
Would there be a workaround to get consistent results from close up?

[wye]

I tried with Unity 2020.3.25f1 and 2020.3.48f1, and there are some blocking issues:
1. Default Visual Effect does not show anything in the Scene window.
2. There is no Bounds mode in Initialize Particle
3. There is no "Set Custom Attribute" in Initialize particle blocks list to be added

Which version of unity does your tutorial require?

[rodbot]

Hey Gabriel, great tutorial. How would I make the arc "travel" from position 1 to position 4 instead of lasting forever? I'm using this effect for a chain lightning attack, so the arc needs to dissipate after a little bit.

[rajathb]

Hey man, love your stuff, been using your tutorials for building my own game. I was wondering if you could take a crack at how the shield effect is done in Halo Infinite, seems like a cool feature to break down

[Volfox]

Thank you for your tutorial. I love all of them. How would you go about adjusting the size based on the curve so that it tapers at the ends?

[ajithraj]

How can we make this using particle effect????

[JV-czdb]

Ty for awesome video, worked perfectly for me! How would you go about making an object, a turret for example, continusly shoot that electric arc at enemies.

[zosiaczarnik]

Even if I change texture to "Default - ParticleSystem", electric arc is still disconnected from the first and last Pos objects. How can I fix that?

[olegvaganov]

Gabriel, another awesome lesson ofc. But how to stop this ligthing unstoppable force? :D
It's just infitine