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Procedural Lightning
Plugin Review
- Easy setup
- Works on different platforms
- Multiple example scenes
Procedural Lightning plugin info
Procedural Lightning is a low price lightning FX Unity plugin which is easy to use and works on different projects based on mobile, desktop, 2D/3D and VR. It is optimized in a way that is it really light-weight on the performance. Package includes demo scenes where you can test different lighting settings and prefabs in easy way. Developer has added also sounds to package so you can hook up those as well on your own project.
Procedural
| Unity Asset Store Rating: | 5/5 |
| Price: | 17,87 € |
| Tested on: | Unity 2020.3.21f1 LTS |
| Supported pipelines: | Built-in, URP, HDRP |
| Supported Unity version: | 2018.4.36 or higher |
| Date of original release: | May 1, 2015 |
| Latest update: | April 4th, 2022 |
| Development state: | Active |
| Package Size: | 14.1 MB |
| 3D/2D support: | Yes/Yes |
| Mobile support: | Yes |
| VR support: | Yes |
| LOD support: | - |
| Build-in optimization: | Yes by tweaking settings |
| Errors after installation: | No |
| Includes sounds: | Yes |
| Known Issues: | Mobile not supported on Unity 4.x |
| Links: | Forum Thread Website |
Installation
Installation is really easy. Just open up the Unity Package Manager and choose My Assets from upper left corner. Then choose Procedural Lightning- High Performance and Shocking Lightning plugin from the list and hit install button and import the plugin in your project. There was no errors after installed on clean Unity 2020.3.21f1 project.
Procedural Lightning Plugin Graphic Examples
Procedural Lightning Plugin Content
Content is pretty straightforward. In ProceduralLightning folder you can find Demo and Prefab folders. if you interested to see what kind of lightings you can find from the package, check some Demo scenes.
You can also add ready made prefabs in your own scene and try them out. Package includes also sound samples for lighting, shocks and some loopable samples as well.
Sample scenes
On Demo folder you can find a lot of sample scenes where you can see different kinds of prefabs easily. If you want to test some of the examples, you can just copy the prefab or object from sample scene and paste that on your project.
Total number of sample scenes is over 20 and here are some of them:
– Lighting field
– Light saber
– Outdoors scene
– Spells scene
– Whip example
Tutorial Video
If you are planning to implement this plugin in your game project, you can start with this tutorial video made by the plugin developer. It shows you all the steps and features you need to know about this plugin so watching this video can help you decrease the time to make the plugin work in your game project.
Conclusion
Procedural Lightning Unity plugin is nice set of different kinds of lighting effects. Package includes ready made prefabs where you can find Lighting Bolt Path, Lightning Bolt Shape Cone and Lightning Bolt Shape Sphere prefabs.
In sample scene you can find different kinds of examples how this plugin can be used. There are scenes for spell casting, outdoor lightning and different shapes of lightning setups. Package includes sounds that can be used as placeholder while prototyping or testing.
If you need natural lighting in your scene, you can also check our Unistorm plugin review which is a full scale and flexible weather system plugin.
