Hi, Im new at Unity and I was wondering if someone can point me to the correct tutorial were I can lear how Unity implements visual efects. I know about the particle emitter. But I was wondering if theres another way of doing special efects in Unity. For example how can I do the slashing efect that you see in melee combat games when you swing a sword?
There is no such thing as the functionality thats implemented in unity is not implemented through scripting but as lower level engine functionality.
That being said, if you look at the Unite videos from 2007 - 2009, you will find some interesting stuff on the matter.
And the web hosts thousands of tutorials on visual effects with geometry, shaders, animations etc which you can use as base to learn how to do an effect and then transport that knowledge to unity
Generally the stuff is very game and style dependent though, there is no general thing.
such slashing effects normally are part of the model so the artist has 100% control over it (its fully dependent on the animation anyway)
Well you add a ribbon trail. Though I think its slightly more complex than that.
Pardon my ignorance but, what is a ribon trail?
I believe that this is just a particle trail, though I have never heard of them either.
Makes me appreciate just what is going on in this fight scene.
Thks! Thats one of the efects that we are trying to do. That really helps a lot.