Pixel Perfect Lights and Particles in Unity! (Tutorial)

In this video, we are going to demonstrate how you can use the Universal Render Pipelines 2D Renderer and 2D Lights to create Pixel Perfect Lights and Particles.
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Learn more about the Universal Render Pipeline here!
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Read more about our 2D Lights here!
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And finally, here you can find more Information about the 2D Renderer!
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Unity Version used 2019.4

[@xianead18]

Damn. They've been stepping up so much ever since Brackeys stopped

[@normalhumanbeing6066]

Xianead Penilla true

[@gerarddilk4862]

good for us

[@sterlingmisael133]

I guess im asking the wrong place but does someone know of a method to log back into an instagram account..? I somehow forgot the account password. I appreciate any assistance you can give me.

[@AlanAlan-bv9yg]

Sebastian Lague is better than Brackeys very much

[@Terror1046]

I just want to mention that the tutorial guy has a nice voice and that I appreciate the structure in these tutorials. It's miles better than what you usually find on youtube

[@albertb4460]

Unity stepping in in the unity tutorials field

[@sujayisarani8275]

After brackeys this is my hope Unity itself!! Edit : thanks for 131 likes

[@lct7xi888]

Why did Brackeys quit :(

[@sujayisarani8275]

He wanted to do something else

[@rod-abreu]

​ @ΞLΞCT7XI He deserves it. It is a lot of work to create and prep content in the quality he was already doing in his vids, I know he had a team working with him, but it's been 8 years already. He made a lot of money with his vids and I think everything is well deserved, in his place I'd take some sabatical years before thinking of coming back, honestly. I work with video games and it's a lot of work to keep delivering stuff in time and finishing up everything you want and need, specially when it's an yearly sport game. Lots of efforts.

[@khushalkhan83]

You are lost, unity channel guy is too lazy to put project link he always says that it will be in description but never put it there. How could someone hope from someone like that

[@mythip_]

@@khushalkhan83 you are lost cant you see the link in the description

[@zaidmermam2524]

5:32 my mind : a great system for making amazing particles * in dani's voice *

[@LilPie]

fr

[@Arnoldius]

It would be really cool if 2D lights would support soft shadows!

[@revengerwizard]

Arnoldius and self-shadow

[@gyanendrasingh2003]

When brackeys fans don't get any channel like that

[@gargaroots]

Check the Code Monkey channel, it's amazing.

[@AndyHodges10]

- Update. The asset link has been added to the description. Thanks a ton! I'm currently not seeing the example project linked in the description. I do however see the 3 reference links.

[@11305205219]

+1

[@andytouch9482]

Hey! Sorry about that, we are working on fixing it. :)

[@unity]

@Hodge Podge We have now updated the description with the proper link! Thanks for your patience!

[@kuumaaa]

really like the small particles floating around

[@alecz_ro]

I'm waiting for dani to come here because..... *Unity particles system*

[@youneskasdi]

Quality tutorial, amazing detailed explanation and still managing to keep it simple so everyone can understand, please keep uploading stuff like these.

[@HylianLegend]

who else clicked on this video because they misspelled particles on the thumbnail

[@TurboMakesGames]

🤩 So beautiful! Love how this allows a programmer like myself to easily add a ton of character to my game world

[@pandaengine]

Holy moly this was the video I was waiting for!

[@matveydutkovsky6184]

Hello! Render texture wasn't upscaled and in Pixel Perfect Camera (Experimental) was "Pixel perfect Camera in the 2D Pixel Perfect package isn't compatible with Scriptable Render Pipeline. If you are using Lightweight Render Pipeline, you can swap this for the Pixel Perfect Camera component that ships with LWRP". Unity version 2020.3.36f1

[@hm4266]

Cool! but I was looking this a long time ago and found all by my own) but that’s still really helpful

[@gabrielpaduraru6922]

We all expect dani in the comments

[@mr.madman9467]

Nice that you went public. Wish you the best of luck!

[@rzbig]

Always wondered how to make pixel perfect _paticles_ ...

[@LilPie]

so to the ppl than want that projected shadow, just add "Shadow Caster 2D" at object than u want a shadow, so u change the "Shadow Intensity" value at light inspector. thats it

[@eboatwright_]

YESSS! I've been waiting for this! :O

[@agastyavalisetty8620]

hey wut if there was a 2d raytracing?

[@DavidMetzener]

Maybe it's way early in the morning for me, but am I not seeing the "link in the description" to the project in the video that we can download and look at? I see the "more info" links, but that's it. I really would like to pull down the sample to experiment with. Thanks in advance...

[@andytouch9482]

Hey! Sorry about that; we are working on fixing it. :)

[@bsdrago]

@@andytouch9482 Waiting!! =)

[@unity]

We have now updated the description with the proper link! Thanks for your patience!

[@bsdrago]

@@unity

[@LeoHsieh]

Can I just change my monitor resolution to 320 x 640 and expect the game turned into pixel art?

[@PeterMilko]

I'm doing this in my game, come look.

[@Oxmond]

Looks awesome! 🤓🧡🤓🧡🤓

[@lahiter]

Anyone else having issues with the pixel perfect camera, cinemachine and pixel snapping? My camera isn't very fluid when I move it.

[@chris.davidoff]

This is so stellar

[@n3xt0r]

Esas paticles!

[@joni89qe]

They didn't explain how to get the floating particles affected by light, or did I miss something?

[@FortbloxNET]

What if? ..... I want this cool pixel perfect particle effects but i dont want the pixel perfect camera all over my game, for example my character is swinging a sword. I dont want the sword to be pixel perfect. So how can i achieve to say what exactly should pe pixel perfect and what not?

[@revengerwizard]

The pixel perfect camera is starting being perfect also with lights and particles. Maybe a thing awesome would be to make it work with UI

[@droweedryan]

you killing it

[@JulianColbus]

Is there a way to make JUST the lighting pixel perfect (i.e. all types of 2D Lights) and nothing else? We do want smooth movement of camera and sprites, so we disabled "Upscale Render Texture" and "Pixel Snapping". But I would like to try and see what pixel perfect lighting looks like, i.e. if light falloff were to adhere to the size of "asset pixels" rather than "screen pixels". Sprite Lights aren't the answer I'm looking for since they aren't suited for all use cases. Thanks in advance to anyone who might know the answer. (:

[@StarLightShadows]

I would also like to know.

[@JulianColbus]

@@StarLightShadows I asked around on Twitter and Reddit, but no luck. You need to make manual changes to library files. Luckily, our shader guy managed to do it already. I'll post about it very soon on Twitter (@digitales_games) if you want to learn more. (:

[@lunaticartimus]

Hi Unity, Light2D sprite masks seem to not respect "Filter Mode: Point (no filter)" any more, compared to the experimental (mask) cookies. Is there any option to get pixelated lighting back?

[@monalloyd]

Hi, great video, thanks for uploading! I have a question: the aspect ratio changes in different sections of the video - sometimes it's "Free Aspect," sometimes 1920x1080, and sometimes 16:10. Is there an ideal aspect ratio when using 16 PPU? I'm very new to all of this and I'm always a little bit confused about choosing a good aspect ratio for my projects. I know it's been a while since this video was uploaded, but I hope you'll respond. Thanks again for the video!

[@mauschannelbois5089]

It would be great if the 2D render pipeline could support 3D illumination... Like a 2.5D render pipeline would be amazing

[@masterz0]

How to remove the camera jitter, when accompanying the player?

[@daffa-d3633]

5:33 its a great system where you can make particles (dani)

[@Gx-Studio]

where is the link of the project i can't find it

[@juicedup14]

He didn't go into how lights made bloom Can someone explain?

[@dorondavid4698]

Awesome stuff!

[@jertlemiah]

I don't see the link for the project in the description, there is only the links to the documentation on the things used (and I don't see this example listed there either).

[@HypedO_OP]

i used it, the assets are helpful to me i dont know about yours

[@jertlemiah]

Ahhhh, they updated the description to add the link. It was not there when I made my previous comment

[@HypedO_OP]

@@jertlemiah oh

[@geri4367]

Please relase some Documentation and Examples on how to manually write or adapt pre-existing shaders to URP and the 2D renderer As an asset publisher having users demand this features and not being able to provide them is really annoying :(

[@unity]

Hey Geri! Appreciate the feedback! If you haven't yet, please use the Documentation Feedback form (located at the bottom of every documentation page) to share this feedback with our Docs team! Thanks!

[@geri4367]

@@unity Is it possible that this Documentation Feedback from has been deprecated from now and moved to the forums?

[@eboatwright_]

I can't get the 2d shadows to work. Any help?

[@mustafasuve3109]

So this enables the lights to work well for 2D games, whereas in 3D, spotlights or point lights couldn't even cast shadows.

[@OmegaFalcon]

Does pixel perfect camera work with multiple vcams at different distances, cuz I couldn't get them to work

[@Влад-ъ4б6ц]

But is there a way to pixelate the light itself? Because the light seems soft still. How can you make it "toony"?

[@awesomegamedev]

Looks cool, but can you render crisp TextMeshPRO text on top of it? Like in Celeste: game is pixel art, but all the text is crisp and clear

[@stafs]

Add a second normal camera just for the text?

[@silevol]

@@stafs But if you do that, isn't the second camera impacting the performance? Because thats a problem I have with my project right now.. And I have performance issues because of the second camera. Would be glad if there were a sweet little trick or solution I couldn't see?

[@awesomegamedev]

@@stafs Yeah, it should probably work. I just never used two cameras together.

[@angustaylor830]

The word particles is spelt wrong in the thumbnail. It says paticles. You might want to fix that

[@neozoid7009]

Awesome . But can I render a High resolution normal sprite not pixelated into a pixelated sprite using this camera ?

[@CatDribble]

Why isn't there any software that does this when creating pixel animation, if I was making games this would be great.

[@technofeeliak]

NOPE... I can see the pixel art gets distorted. I have a work around for all this, it takes a lot of time to implement but the results are much better.

[@legolad2103]

i swear it doesn't work with 2d lights. i've tried but nothing works. the lights still appear the same :(

[@DayzeXzxR]

in action video is apparently worth the Korean language. This is why I can't get subtitles.

[@HamroTalkingTom]

Wow

[@protophase]

I'm getting a massive headache with this. Please help me. I have imported a sprite in unity to use as my background with a resolution of 640 x 480. but when I do it's so tiny compared to everything else, the camera doesn't match and I want to be able to upscale it to 1080p later. In the video everything is at a normal scale of 1:1:1 and he is even using 1080p HD resolution for sprite size lower than me. What am I doing wrong?

[@TeppuTeppu]

it almost looks like noita, but sadly the boxes are not destructable

[@franciscojaviercampos3672]

It would be good to have the sample project

[@neozoid7009]

Awesome

[@KiuanTroll]

Oh yeah!

[@krumss]

how do you create that pixel art particle system?

[@iamjustaduck7592]

Did you animate the shadow caster2D on the player or am I dreaming ? If you did, could you tell me how please? :0

[@Gennj]

I'm here before 1k views...

[@thereadypunk757]

Does everything have to have on resolution? My player is 32 by 32, and my tiles are 16 by 16

[@realxvrw]

Finally

[@arkilisx]

Bit lost as this tutorial try to include way many points but none of them is explained well.

[@omar7altawil435]

Where is the download link

[@unity]

Sorry, we had a bit of a delay with the Project, it is in the description box now! :)

[@shapeshifter8986]

Is there a way to make a 2D Game which uses 2D Lights and a 3D Background for this game which uses 3D Lights?

[@DonPoorty]

What do I need to do for my sprites to project a shadow?

[@bean_mhm]

5:32 Unity's Particle System (Dani's Entire Life)

[@mehmeh8883]

So these are mobile optimized, right?

[@youseftest8383]

the thumbnail says paticles instead of particles

[@Kondensatorr]

Are the pixel perfect lights compatibile with Unity ECS? and can they be spawned as entities?

[@scratchy996]

Is there something similar to make those light rays for 3D ?

[@dottasov]

Do you have a paticle tutorial thx

[@muttlymartin2621]

Is it bad if i have my max texture size set to the 8000s scale? 3:44

[@ficworldtfz]

does it work on unity 2022?

[@MrHarry37]

Is there a way to soften up the shadows?

[@tmi114]

@Unity, any chance to get this project ?

[@majnoon1935]

guys i had a question please help : do game developer needs to learn VFX or VFX maker is a different with coder? and does VFX need any coding? cuase i hate graphic works and love coding tnx for you help and sorry for my bad grammar .

[@anonymoussloth6687]

vfx is just visual effect your add to your scene to make it "pop" more or simulate any other visual effect you desire. Suppose you are making a horror game where you want to make your whole scene dark and spooky with lights (like torches and lamps) to really pop then this is where it will come in handy. As far as I know, VFX doesn't really require that much coding. Instead you need to understand how lighting, shaders, etc work.

[@majnoon1935]

@@anonymoussloth6687 they told me that this work doing something like when somebody shoot a bullets to a wall and it destroys , and i should do this part of work, Are these two one?

[@anonymoussloth6687]

can someone explain or link to a video that shows how to achieve the pixelated explosion effect from the shooting in this video? I have been search for this for a long time and i am relatively new to unity so i am looking for it to be beginner friendly

[@unity]

While maybe not exactly the effect in this video, here is documentation on how to create simple explosions: docs.unity3d.com/Manual/PartSysExplosion.html Hope that helps!

[@nosinfantasia]

hi anyone knows how to do this laser beam ? some link plz.....

[@tomxuan9050]

How do you make that shadow?

[@honoratojr.palmero4108]

can this cure my depression?

[@joeysimon3331]

Hello there!

[@DukensteinA1]

Hi

[@kevinkelly6756]

Where is dani???

[@tyraniusdelten8207]

❤️

[@cathello2900]

Спасибо. Как сделать такой фон?

[@DanielDaAbadSukarno]

Are unity can beat UE4 or u can't do that?

[@ROXPLAYZONE]

Why brackys quit

[@cristiano4826]

My ui is jittering when it is the child of camera any fix

[@luis_musik]

rendering the ui as an overlay instead of to the camera should fix

[@cristiano4826]

@@luis_musik my parallaxing also jittering after using pixel perfect camera 😪

[@luis_musik]

might have something to do with script execution order idk

[@jmedeirosneto]

​@@cristiano4826 Same problem here, it didn't happen in the 2019 version. Did you fixed?

[@cristiano4826]

@@jmedeirosneto I used screen overlay for ui. Somehow I reduced the parallaxing jitter.

[@sarp519]

How to get 2D light pixilated?

[@mikena8519]

I miss @Brackeys take on things :(

[@bamachikaboi]

“क्योंकि परमेश्‍वर ने जगत से ऐसा प्रेम रखा कि उसने अपना एकलौता पुत्र दे दिया, ताकि जो कोई उस पर विश्वास करे, वह नाश न हो, परन्तु अनन्त जीवन पाए। (यूहन्ना 3:16) यदि तू अपने मुँह से यीशु को प्रभु जानकर अंगीकार करे और अपने मन से विश्वास करे, कि परमेश्‍वर ने उसे मरे हुओं में से जिलाया, तो तू निश्चय उद्धार पाएगा। (रोमियों 10:9)

[@erictr3234]

too late

[@giannisgiakamozis7418]

Dani

[@gaminganimator-qp2ir]

15E

[@kelleyintegritysafetysolut484]

Until I get what I friggin paid for.... YOU CAN GET READY FOR ME TO SHARE MY EXPERIENCES WITH THE ENTIRE WORLD!!!!

[@ghouldrago360]

Keep the dislike at 0 boiisss