Procedural, lightweight URP space stars, suns, and pulsars with volumetric raymarching.Procedural Volumetric Stars & Suns (URP)Create breathtaking, dynamically animated stars, suns, and pulsars for your space games or cinematic scenes. Procedural Volumetric Stars is a complete, lightweight visual effects package built specifically for the Universal Render Pipeline (URP).Every visual element—from the boiling plasma surfaces and glowing coronas to the massive magnetic field lines and raymarched polar jets—is 100% procedural. This means you get stunning, infinite-resolution details from any distance, with zero memory overhead from heavy texture files or complex particle systems.=== Key Visual Features & Included Star Types ===The package includes 6 ready-to-use star prefabs, each configured with its own custom ScriptableObject profile:1. Yellow Dwarf: A classic, active sun with bright solar flares and a boiling corona.2. Blue Giant: A massive, hot star emitting intense, high-energy light.3. Red Dwarf: A cooler, low-mass star with a deep crimson hue and slow-churning surface motion.4. Orange Dwarf: A stable, warm star with a bright, welcoming corona.5. White Dwarf: A dense, compact stellar remnant with a high-intensity white-blue core.6. Neutron Star / Pulsar: An extreme stellar body featuring rotating magnetic dipole field lines and twin, raymarched volumetric polar jets.=== What's Inside the Pack? ===* 6 Pre-Configured Star Prefabs: Yellow Dwarf, Blue Giant, Red Dwarf, Orange Dwarf, White Dwarf, and Pulsar/Neutron Star.* 6 ScriptableObject Star Profiles: Pre-loaded with custom settings for each star type.* Procedural Shaders: Custom URP shaders for Triplanar Plasma, Volumetric Coronas, Coronal Loops (Flares), Raymarched Polar Jets, and Dipole Magnetic Fields.* Interactive Demo Scene: Includes a clean, responsive space environment with a demo controller script (orbit, zoom, and target selection UI) that supports both Legacy Input and the New Input System.* Detailed Documentation: A step-by-step setup guide to get your space scene looking cinematic in minutes.=== Technical Requirements & Setup ===* Unity Version: Unity 2022.3 LTS, Unity 2023, or Unity 6+* Render Pipeline: Universal Render Pipeline (URP)* Post-Processing: For the best visual results, Bloom and HDR must be enabled in your URP pipeline settings to achieve the cinematic glowing effects.* URP Settings: Ensure Depth Texture is checked in your URP Pipeline Asset settings for the volumetric jets and magnetic lines to blend smoothly with other geometry.=== Technical Specifications ===- Number of Shaders: 5 Custom Shaders (Triplanar Surface, Corona, Coronal Loop, Raymarched Jet, Dipole Magnetic Field)- Number of Prefabs: 6 Star Prefabs (fully set up and ready to drop into a scene)- Number of C# Scripts: 4 Scripts (StarController, StarProfile ScriptableObject, MagneticFieldVisual, StarDemoController)- Texture Count: 6 optional texture maps (for noise/displacement, up to 1024x1024 resolution)- Materials: Materials are instantiated dynamically at runtime to keep file size low and prevent duplicate disk assets.- Input System Support: Full cross-compatibility out of the box (supports both the Legacy Input Manager and the New Input System).- Supported Render Pipelines: Universal Render Pipeline (URP) only.- Supported Platforms: PC, Mac, Console, Mobile, WebGL. (Shaders are written to be highly performant and mobile-friendly).
