I want to get or buy magic effect sources.
There are many 3d character or background modeling selling sites.
But I have not found any of magic effect files.
Can you let me know?
Is there no middleware like torque3d’s AFX 2.0?
Sadly I don’t think there is. You can use built-in particle system, but with that you can achieve only basic effects.
I had plans to make such system for an RPG we were making, but I had to quit the project before I had time to do so.
I can only achieve basic effects right now but I have to disagree with that statement. I have seen some AMAZING things done that I wouldn’t have ever thought about doing with the Particle System. Check out the Showcase forum, there are some gorgeous things done in some of those games all with the built in Particle System and coding it to do what they want.
You can achieve certain effects. But try doing a magic system in the game, or better yet, have a concept artist make up a few magic effects for you. You’ll quickly find out that 90% of them are not possible with the particle system.
Unity has not a by default totally useless particle system that lend itself to AFX being a seriously good idea if you ever intend to use particles … that makes it quite a bit less likely that anyone invests time.
I own AFX myself due to this very reason (the particle system was best in TGE and has since then only been reduced by features, performance and capabilities, not expanded)