Graphics

Unity’s graphics features let you control the appearance of your application and are highly customizable. You can use Unity’s graphics features to create beautiful, optimized graphics across a range of platforms, from mobile to high-end consoles and desktop.

This section contains information on the following graphics features:

• Render pipelinesA series of operations that take the contents of a Scene, and displays them on a screen. Unity lets you choose from pre-built render pipelines, or write your own. More info
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• CamerasA component which creates an image of a particular viewpoint in your scene. The output is either drawn to the screen or captured as a texture. More info
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• Post-processingA process that improves product visuals by applying filters and effects before the image appears on screen. You can use post-processing effects to simulate physical camera and film properties, for example Bloom and Depth of Field. More info post processing, postprocessing, postprocess
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• Lighting section
• Meshes, Materials, Textures, and Shaders
• Particle SystemsA component that simulates fluid entities such as liquids, clouds and flames by generating and animating large numbers of small 2D images in the scene. More info
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• Creating environments
• Sky
• Visual Effects
• Optimizing Graphics Performance
• Color spaces

More information

• Unity Blog: How to create cinema-quality lighting in Unity
• Unite 2020: Evolving Game Graphics with the Universal Render Pipeline
• Unite 2020: Achieving high fidelity graphics for games with the HDRP
• Creating a Third Person Camera using Cinemachine in Unity
• Unity Learn Graphics tutorials
• Unity Support: Graphics and Shaders