Tornado Shader

🎮Check out the live web demo here.

🎁 This package is included in the Neko Legends - 3D & VFX Starter Bundle

✨ Features:

⚡ Lite Shader (URP/WebGL2-Ready)

• 🎨 Custom Colors
  Choose your vibe with Inner and Outer HDR color controls – from icy blue to fiery red!
• 💥 Bloom-Ready Intensity
  Dial up the drama with _BloomIntensity – perfect for VFX scenes and magical spells.
• 🌫️ Dynamic Swirl & Noise
  Real-time swirling motion with customizable noise speed, scale, and tiling.
• 🌀 Swirl Animation
  Add rotating vortex effects using Swirl Speed and animated cylindrical coordinates.
• 📏 Height Tiling Control
  Stretch or compress noise vertically for different vortex styles – from dust devils to mega storms!
• 🧊 Global Opacity
  Control transparency with smooth blending for seamless layering over your scenes.
• 🖼️ Noise Texture Support
  Plug in your own grayscale texture to control shape and flicker randomness.
• 🌐 WebGL 2.0 Compatible
  Built with #pragma target 3.0 – works flawlessly in browser deployments.

🌀 Experimental Bonus: Raymarch Tornado Shader

Also included is a next-gen, no-mesh-needed tornado using raymarching!

• Generates a full volumetric tornado directly in screen space
• Spiraling chaos with trippy inner perturbations
• Built for beauty, not performance — use in cinematics or static scenes
• Fully tweakable: scale, swirl, spin direction, and more!

🧱 Includes 6 Tornado 3D Meshes
Comes with six uniquely shaped tornado models designed to work perfectly with the Lite shader shader.

• Mix and match models, materials, and settings for unique looks
• This hybrid mesh-shader approach reduces GPU load by letting the mesh define the silhouette — freeing performance for other effects!

💡 Perfect For:
Magic spells, elemental attacks, weather effects, stylized portals, and energy beams!

🎵 Music is not included to keep the file size minimal and allow creators to choose audio that best suits their scene. This also helps keep Neko Legends - 3D & VFX Starter Bundle size low due to the 6GB limit.

📦 Dependencies

To 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.

✅ [Anime Cel Shader]

• Which powers the core look of the entire scene, comes with Metals and Glass addons.
• 🔥 Note: The **Tornado 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.