Post Processing in Unity - Image Effects Tutorial

Learn how to master Post Processing in Unity!

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[cenphongames]

The post processing stack is no longer in the asset store. Instead, find it in the package manager.

[Tobbit]

Setup: 00:57
HDR: 02:30
AA: 02:50
AO: 03:36
Screen Space Reflection: 04:57
DoF: 06:14
Motion Blur: 07:44
Eye Adaptation: 08:42
Bloom: 09:06
Color Grading: 10:14
Lut: 12:05
Chromatic Aberration: 12:28
Grain: 13:02
Vignette: 13:21
Dithering: 14:12

[Blackthornprod]

These effects are simply wonderful, the quality they add are outstanding ! I will definitely be using these tools for my future games ! Thanks a ton team Brackeys :)

[trayfenodonnell]

It appears things have changed since this video. If people are having difficulty finding the Post Processing Profile. The process as of this post goes like this.
1) Make sure HDRP is in your project with no conflicts or errors.
2) Make sure you have the HDRP asset in your project.
3) Create an empty game object in your seen
4) Add the Volume component it this object.
5) Click the New button next to Profile field in the Volume component
6) Double click the new profile you created, it should appear in the Profile field in the volume component.
7) Click the Add Override button when the profile opens
8) Now click Post Processing or the feature you are looking for.

This took me hours to figure out. I do not see any documentation or tutorial that covers these steps.

Hope this helps.

[GameDev]

This is by far the best explanation of the Post Processing stack. 15 minutes of pure information. Thanks a lot!

[WillMcCKill]

Thank you for always providing polished and informative videos. You are amazing!

[InfallibleCode]

This is a great explanation of post processing! Thanks for going through each property and explaining it so well. Very informative video :-)

[Dorthion]

I love your tutorial with these beautiful effects. Wow :D

[PhilipposSlicher]

Since you have been such a help for me with learning stuff over the last few years, I totally support sponsored videos, to keep videos free, and be fair to you as well, especially with DevAssets. Also, an idea for a video, maybe you could work on a video for world design and creating the actual world/scenery and just environment as it's one of the things I'm struggling with.

[ThatsPety]

you know what, that course seemed actually pretty cool. As long as you find sponsored content as interesting and engaging as that, i dont mind in the slightest!

[davidzheng]

Thank you so much for this video Brackeys! You're always great at explaining things.

[CanaleNerd]

Amazing video, I'm gonna use this advices for all my projects! Ty man

[Javawok]

I'm a noob on unity but after watching your video my animations look a millions times better ! Thank you so much! The post processing asset pack is amazing !!

[monkeysaur]

Thanks for this video! & for all your videos, I am only afew days into using Unity & I'm finding them very helpful!

[patrickthom]

Great Video, Super helpful! just jumped onto unity after a while of not using it and was a bit confused at the whole set up of this so thanks for the help!

[nirharpaz]

great video
1 thing I was missing here is a reference to the performance impact on the scene.
Having profiler open while running the scene can do the trick to clear the true meaning of having so many post effects on.

[iamnaudar]

Excellent video! really helpful for my first projectk, I got an huge improvement on the graphics. thanks you!

[Kolyasisan]

Your tutorial is awesome for beginners, but there are several things that I want to add.

1. You need temporal AA if you want to achieve the best quality. TAA runs besides motion blur and makes image a lot smoother when in motion (so you're actually saving somewhat if you use them both). It also corrects Wagon Wheel artifacts. Your camera was static and that's why you thought that FXAA works better here. FXAA determines edges by Luma and it's not an ideal solution, especially on low resolution. Most of the games just add a small camera sway to fix TAA's lack of smoothing (Final Fantasy XV is the best example. This game is and not too much blurred thanks to TAA).

2. SSAO extremely needs Ambient Only option if you are using deferred. This way it's implemented right into the rendering pipeline and it doesn't apply AO in the lit sections. It's not only more physically correct, but it's also slightly faster.

3. You basically need ACES tonemapping. It uses, well, ACES curve to achieve the grading of a real camera. All modern games with HDR lighting use ACES. You just need to play around with color grading to make it less contrast. Also, LUTs are just as fast as unity's color grading, LUTs are just easier to use.

[SBJen]

Awesome demonstration. I think it covered all the key points in a meaningful way. For me, it was a nice introduction to the feature set :)

[abodgamer]

Nice Video Brackeys please keep up the good quality and the hard work !