VFX Pack Creator

VFX Pack Creator walkthrough

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The VFX Pack Creator makes recolored copies of your visual effects. Pick the effects, choose your colors, give the theme a name, and it produces a themed copy of each one - the same thing you’d do by hand when making a “red” and a “blue” version of an effect, but in a single step. Your original effects are left untouched.

Using it

Select your VFX in the Project window, then Right-click -> Art Pipeline -> Create VFX Pack….

Options in the dialog

Option	What it does
One or Two colors	One color recolors everything to that color. Two colors lets effects that use a second color (like two-tone particles or gradients) use your second color too.
Main color	The main color the effects are recolored to.
Secondary color	The second color, used when you choose Two colors.
Recolor over time	Optional - give effects that change color over their lifetime a new color gradient.
Targets	Starts with whatever you right-clicked. Drag in more effects to add them, or remove any you don’t want.

What you get

• A themed copy of each effect, named after the original plus your theme name (for example Fireball_Ice), saved next to the original. Your originals are never changed.
• The copies stay linked to the originals, so if you tweak the original effect later, the themed copies pick up those changes automatically - only the colors stay overridden.
• Brightness and glow are preserved - only the color (hue) changes, so effects keep their intensity and soft edges.

Note

The tool only makes the recolored art. It doesn’t change any gameplay setup, so wiring the new effects into the game is still up to you (or your programmer).

Settings

Found in Project Settings -> Art Pipeline -> VFX Packs.

Setting	Default	What it does
Themed copy name	Original name + theme (e.g. Fireball_Ice)	How the recolored copies are named.
Overwrite existing	Off	Remake themed copies that already exist, instead of skipping them.
Recolor materials too	On	Also recolor effect materials that have a built-in color, by safely copying them first.
VFX folders	Any selected effect	Limit which folders count as VFX. Left empty, any effect you select works.
Folders to ignore	None	Folders the tool should skip.

It works out of the box with no setup - any effect you select can be themed.

Hit something annoying? Tell us.

If anything about theming and recoloring VFX feels repetitive, fiddly, or just slows you down, that is exactly the kind of thing we can build a tool for. No idea is too small - a lot of what exists here started as someone saying "I wish this just did itself."

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