A lightweight, stylized flame shader with built-in randomness for natural flicker variation. Perfect for cozy, magical, or cinematic scenes.Tested and created in Unity 6 in URP. Older editors are not supported at this time.💡 This shader came about while I was building Cozy Hearth.At the time, I used the Water Magic Shader as a quick hack for candle flames — not ideal, but it did the job.Now here's a proper, dedicated 🕯️Candle Flame Shader — lightweight, customizable, and made to look right from the start.🎮Check out the live web demo here.🎁 This package is included in the Neko Legends - 3D & VFX Starter Bundle🎲 True Per‑Instance RandomnessToggle on “Use World‑Pos Flicker Seed” to automatically get into a unique flicker pattern —✨ no two candles ever look the same, even on the same material.🎛️ Manual Seed ControlSwitch randomness off and dial in your own _FlickerSeed for perfectly repeatable flicker timing if that's what you're going for.⚡ Ultra‑Lightweight & Efficient🪶 No textures or look‑ups🧮 Minimal arithmetic and branching keeps GPU cost low🚀 Optimized for URP and performance‑sensitive projects🔥 Customizable Flame Profile🔧 Scale, aspect, offset, and “almond” taper controls🎨 Two‑tone gradient from base to tip🌫️ Adjustable blur radius & flame intensity🧡 Bonus: Included ModelsThis package comes with a variety of candle models to get you started right away:🕯️ candleFlame, candleFlameHalf. These are low poly flame surfaces.🪔 candleHolder, threeArmCandleHolder🩸 candleMelty, shortCandle, skullCandle📦 Perfect ForCozy interiors, festival lanterns, magical spell effects—or anywhere you need dozens of candles to flicker independently without killing performance.📦 DependenciesTo experience this asset as intended as shown in the video and web demos, you’ll need the following assets from the Neko Legends collection:✅ [Shared Assets URP (FREE)]Contains core demo GUI, reusable scripts, and shared 3D models and textures across all Neko Legends assets.✅ [Music - Ancient Library (FREE)]A piano solo has been composed for this shader demo, also free for you to grab here!✅ [Anime Cel Shader]Which powers the core look of the entire scene, comes with Metals and Glass addons.🔥 Note: The **Candle Flame Shader itself does not require these dependencies — it is fully standalone. However, the included demo materials are styled to match those pipelines, which will appear pink on scene launch if you do not have my Anime Cel Shader.🛠 Technical DetailsTested and created with Unity 6 URP. Older editors may not work with this shader.🖼 Textures are either 2048x2048 or 4096x4096 depending on size of the 3D model.🎶Audio file types: PCM wavSample rate: 48000 Hz, 1536 kbpsBit depth: 16-bitLoopable: No📦 Models Vertices count (highest detail and lowest detail):candleFlame 34 vertices, candleFlameHalf 17 vertices,shortCandle 131 verticescandleHolder 6335 high 1280 lowthreeArmCandleHolder6294 high1451 low candleMelty2929 high559 lowskullCandle3872 high1058 lowtextures, backgrounds, product description
