2D Drop Shadow Effect Using Sprites in Unity 3D - Tutorial

[@Malabyte]

As I watch through your old videos, a certain happiness rises within me. You inspired me to start pixel art and learn unity. I aspired to be able to draw as well as you can. Now I can. And I just wanna say thank you for making these videos and being a source of inspiration for me :)

[@gmatheus10]

Dude, Its so weird hearing your low pitch voice after watching all your 2D platformer tutorials

[@RaylisTV]

Why did you stop your channel ? You are the one who speaks the most clearly and you do not long vidéo and very helpfull (sorry for my english but you are the best)

[@whatevsimbulletproof]

Hey dude where u at? Discovered your channel and it's amazing! Thank you for all the uploads. Hope you're doing well.

[@CanalPapaco]

HOLY FUCK, i've watched so many of your old videos and hearing your voice now took my breath away, seriously

[@Lugmillord]

Nice, thanks. Some additions (may help someone who reads it): - If you put the Material into the Resources folder, you can add it in the Start function via code so you don't have to assign it by hand each time. - I used the Sprites/Default Shader and a default Color of (0f, 0f, 0f, 50f/255f) to get a transparent shadow. - For perspective shadows on the ground I gave the shadow a local rotation of Quaternion.Euler(45f, -30f, 0f) instead of identity. Looking good so far, except if the object rotates along the x or y axis.

[@kealiiaiwohi9097]

I'm having difficulties even getting the shadow Sprite to populate under my character, let alone the shadow actually casting. Script matches his perfectly. Any advice please

[@Lugmillord]

@@kealiiaiwohi9097 Ehm, if it "matches perfectly" I don't know what the issue could be. To make the shadow a child object of the sprite, you have to set the parent of the shadow's transform to the sprite's transform and that's it. Make sure you didn't switch up variables.

[@kealiiaiwohi9097]

@@Lugmillord sorry dont mean to bother, but that would be the line: transShadow.parent = transCaster; ?

[@kealiiaiwohi9097]

@@Lugmillord would it help to go ahead and create the child under the parent (which is a player sprite) and label it shadow?

[@Lugmillord]

@@kealiiaiwohi9097 Yes, that line.

[@patricknloutsiri3440]

I work in a beat em up and your video help me a lot for shadows thank you so much

[@dami4335]

This effect gives another life to the game.. Awesome! Thanks very much :)

[@perttihakala9847]

superb! one of the most useful tutorials I've watched!

[@Khud0]

This shadow looks fantastic, and it's just what I was looking for. Thanks! :)

[@Jimmy-sq5ox]

Can you make a tutorial for the particle effect in your games ? they are awesome!

[@chillworksdev4145]

This was fantastically helpful! Oh my god! It succeeded on one try with no confusion! Thank you so much, you did great!

[@RAPHAELSC]

Great tutorial! I will use it in the game I'm developing! Thanks.

[@samuelrauer]

Thank you so much!

[@matthydev6005]

Thx dude! Hope you will make more like this!

[@Digitroni]

Hey, thank you very much for your Unity tutorials, I’m on my way to making my first game. Things are going pretty smooth, however the tutorials that you make for Unity 5 stop abruptly.

[@benjamingerd4703]

Thank you, this was really helpful!

[@blackjackveteran]

thank you really helped me

[@veno501]

Use the default sprite material, then set the RGB values of the renderer; no shader or material needed.

[@gregghome3339]

Thank you for that - Alpha channel of the shadow only works correctly when going this direction.

[@beaverjoe9171]

Very Nice tutorial！ THX

[@Douglas128]

Great way to create shadows. A question. Where do I change the opacity of the shadow?

[@Douglas128]

I found the answer. Just change the shader type of the Shadow Material to Sprites/Diffuse. Once done, just play with the A channel for the Shadow colour.

[@Gandarufu]

@@Douglas128 Thanks for the hint.

[@hahahpizza]

Gucio"Amazing"Dev!

[@crazyphysicsdev2832]

Very helpful thank you so much!!!

[@robacow]

How come my shadow sprite is bigger than my original sprite? the minimal scale for my sprite is 2, if my original sprite is scale 1, the shadow will be 2, but if I change my original sprite scale to 2, the shadow will stay at 2.....any idea why???

[@robacow]

Found the problem, change the line "transShadow.parent = transCaster;" into "transShadow.SetParent(transCaster, false);" solves the problem. For reference docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.SetParent.html

[@diegosuarez5473]

THAAAAANKS!! GOOOD BLEEESS YOU MY FRIEND XDXD

[@diegosuarez5473]

when I change the size of my sprite, the size of my shadow stays about halfway, it seems to me that the same thing happens, but conversely, do you know what is due?

[@diegosuarez5473]

when I change the size of my sprite, the size of my shadow stays about halfway, it seems to me that the same thing happens, but conversely, do you know what is due?

[@aleksd286]

Good stuff

[@masterroshi2064]

I tried to learn unity from Bracklys. Is there any other youtube channels?

[@slynizz1014]

Master Roshi no one matches brackeys.

[@masterroshi2064]

PatrickRMC Thanks man! You're the best xD

[@LegendaryWizardPS]

I personally find learning from KZbinrs a bit useless if you don't have the basics covered. You should look at Unity's Roll a Ball and Survival Shooter tutorials before scouring KZbin

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holy moly... you voice change a lot O_o

[@asclepiiusunknown1090]

Still amazing to this day. Also, you all good?

[@binhvongola]

can't download a file, can you upload it again? thanks

[@あれくす]

By any chance, can you explain how to make a shader for shine effects as seen in bejeweled and other games where items that can be picked up have a shimmer/shine effect?

[@krissichan3127]

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[@GawblyOG]

What's the theme you're using on the ide?! btw great tutorial!!

[@theonetruedonut]

Is there a way that one could use a smaller method for the particles of a particle system?

[@arvin7334]

Nice vs code theme! can you make a tutorial on how to use vs code with unity?

[@MoonKnight11]

Great Vid!

[@あれくす]

thank u

[@hellokashif3526]

Nice. Btw is it necessary to set shadow sprite = caster.sprite on every LateUpdate? I think just once at Start would be enough. Right?

[@pavelastraukh9905]

I think, that it is needed for animation. Otherwise your shadow will always stay the same.

[@skagenmacka_t3444]

When I instantiate a object with the SpriteShadow script on it, it creates two shadows... Anyone know a solution?

[@skagenmacka_t3444]

Nevermind, i was add a second shadow lol...

[@dolaya237]

I have solution!

[@chickpeas100]

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[@jprice_]

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[@slynizz1014]

fuanshin that's what I was thinking

[@OceleDecbTV]

Hey can you show have make fake 3d builds like in GTA2

[@haxtrad]

It's not working for me, The script. Can someone give me a copy-paste of it?

[@selviam2130]

if we do that you wont learn how to do it yourself

[@XKCDism]

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[@feliperafael8104]

do this impact performance?

[@SodexGames]

Well, each object will have a clone of it's sprite sat underneath it. This is probably more heavy than writing a shader just to do this, but this way is more simple

[@JoenneGee]

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[@RaphaelSMU]

Great vid! Answer on Twitter dm's man

[@GucioDevs]

+Raphael .S thanks :) I'll answer when I get some time.