gdquest-demos/godot-visual-effects

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Open-source visual effects designed in Godot, from our VFX Secrets course.

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Godot Visual Effects

Godot Visual Effects is a Free and Open-Source set of polished visual effects from our course Godot VFX Secrets.

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Laser effect

This hands-on tutorial series will teach you essential techniques to design effects such as explosions, ghost trails behind the player as in Castlevania games, lasers, background animation, and more.

Available effects

All available effects are currently 2D-only.

Explosion
Laser beam
Ghost trail or after image
Starfield
Trail that follows the character

Trail effect

How to use

Download the Godot project. Each effect is in a self-contained directory with all its dependencies.

To add an effect to your project, copy its directory to the root of your project, and move it from Godot's FileSystem tab. That's it!

Explosion effect

Contributing

Contributors are welcome!

If you encounter a bug, please open an issue.

If you want to contribute to the project, for instance by fixing a bug or adding a feature, check out our:

gdquest-demos/godot-visual-effects

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Godot Visual Effects

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