Volumetric Lights 2 is the next generation of volumetric lighting and successor to the original Volumetric Lights. It is now compatible with Unity 2022 and Unity 6 (also supports Unity 2021), featuring advanced new capabilities such as translucency shadow maps, direct light casting, cached shadows, and numerous performance improvements.
Volumetric Lights 2 provides a fast, flexible, and visually impressive light scattering solution for both the Built-in and Universal Rendering Pipeline (URP). With just a few clicks, it significantly enhances scene lighting.
Supported light types include point lights, spot lights, disc-shaped lights, and rectangular lights. The effect can be applied by adding the VolumetricLight script to any light and customizing its properties. The effect automatically adapts to the light's type, angle, range, and color, extending it with volumetric features. It can also be used without a light source by disabling the light and enabling the "Always On" option in the script.
Key features include:
- Smooth or 3D noise-based volumetric effects
- Profile-based settings that allow sharing configurations across multiple lights
- Realistic volumetric lighting
- Real-time shadow occlusion with options to bake shadows and apply distance culling for better performance
- Support for colored shadows
- Translucency shadow maps, where light color is influenced when passing through translucent or transparent materials
- Direct light casting in deferred rendering mode, enabling illumination of scene objects
- Dust particles with distance attenuation
- Colored cookies with animation support
- Customizable boundaries and shapes
- Adjustable light attenuation modes (linear, quadratic, custom)
- Performance and quality controls, including downscaling with bilateral filtering and blur
Additional features:
- Three demo scenes, including one inspired by the Parthenon temple
- Online and PDF documentation
Compatibility:
- Built-in Rendering Pipeline (Unity 2020.3+)
- Universal Rendering Pipeline (URP) (Unity 2021.3+)
- URP Render Graph support
- VR Multi-Pass and Single Pass Stereo support
- Both perspective and orthographic camera support
- Timeline and animation support
Platform support:
- Windows
- macOS
- High-end mobile devices (iOS and Android)
- PS5, PS4, Xbox
- WebGL 2
2026-02-11 00:00:00-update version:Volumetric Lights 2 v11.0.1
