Lens Flare (SRP) Data Asset in URP

Unity’s Scriptable Render Pipeline (SRP) includes the Lens Flare Data asset. You can use this asset to control the appearance of Lens FlaresA component that simulates the effect of lights refracting inside a camera lens. Use a Lens Flare to represent very bright lights or add atmosphere to your scene. More info
See in Glossary in your sceneA Scene contains the environments and menus of your game. Think of each unique Scene file as a unique level. In each Scene, you place your environments, obstacles, and decorations, essentially designing and building your game in pieces. More info
See in Glossary. This is the SRP equivalent of the Built-in Render PipelineA 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
See in Glossary’s Flare asset, which is incompatible with SRPs.

For examples of how to use Lens Flares, refer to the Lens Flare samples in URP Package Samples.

To create a Lens Flare Data asset, select Assets > Create > Lens Flare (SRP). To use this asset, assign it to the Lens Flare Data property of a Lens Flare (SRP) component.

Properties

The Lens Flare Element asset has the following properties:

• Type
• Image
• Circle
• Polygon
• Ring
• Lens Flare Data SRP
• Common
• Cutoff
• Transform
• AxisTransform
• Distortion
• Multiple Elements
  • Uniform
  • Curve
  • Random

Type

Property	Description
Type	Select the type of Lens Flare Element this asset creates: Image Circle Polygon

Image

Property	Description
Flare Texture	The Texture this lens flare element uses.
Preserve Aspect RatioThe relationship of an image’s proportional dimensions, such as its width and height. See in Glossary	Fixes the width and height (aspect ratio) of the Flare Texture. You can use Distortion to change this property.

Circle

Property	Description
Gradient	Controls the offset of the circular flare’s gradient. This value ranges from 0 to 1.
Falloff	Controls the falloff of the circular flare’s gradient. This value ranges from 0 to 1, where 0 has no falloff between the tones and 1 creates a falloff that is spread evenly across the circle.
Inverse	Enable this property to reverse the direction of the gradient.

Polygon

Property	Description
Gradient	Controls the offset of the polygon flare’s gradient. This value ranges from 0 to 1.
Falloff	Controls the falloff of the polygon flare’s gradient. This value ranges from 0 to 1, where 0 has no falloff between the tones and 1 creates a falloff that is spread evenly across the polygon.
Side Count	Determines how many sides the polygon flare has.
Roundness	Defines how smooth the edges of the polygon flare are. This value ranges from 0 to 1, where 0 is a sharp polygon and 1 is a circle.
Inverse	Enable this property to reverse the direction of the gradient

Ring

Property	Description
Gradient	Controls the offset of the circular flare’s gradient. This value ranges from 0 to 1.
Falloff	Controls the falloff of the circular flare’s gradient. This value ranges from 0 to 1, where 0 has no falloff between the tones and 1 creates a falloff that is spread evenly across the circle.
Inverse	Enable this property to reverse the direction of the gradient.
Amplitude	Amplitude of the sampling of the noise.
Repeat	Frequency of the sampling for the noise.
Speed	Scale the speed of the animation.
Ring Thickness	Ring Thickness.

Lens Flare Data Driven SRP

Property	Description
Asset	Lens Flare Data SRP asset as an element.

Unity support an Lens Flare Data SRP recursive, but with a hard cutoff after 16 recursions call. For instance asset A constains asset B which constains asset A (infinite recursion). That will trigger a warning and execution 16 recursions: ~~~~~~ “LensFlareSRPAsset contains too deep recursive asset (> 16). Be careful to not have recursive aggregation, A contains B, B contains A, … which will produce an infinite loop.” ~~~~~~

Color

Property	Description
Color Type	Select the color type of Lens Flare Element this asset creates: Constant Radial Angular
Tint	Changes the tint of the lens flare. If this asset is attached to the light, this property is based on the light tint.
Modulate By Light Color	Allows light color to affect this Lens Flare Element. This only applies when the asset is used in a SRP Lens Flare Override Component that is attached to a point, spot, or area light.
Intensity	Controls the intensity of this element.
Blend Mode	Select the blend mode of the Lens Flare Element this asset creates: Additive Screen Premultiplied Lerp

Constant Color

Property	Description
Tint	Changes the tint of the lens flare. If this asset is attached to the light, this property is based on the light tint.

Constant Color

Property	Description
Tint Radial	Specifies the radial gradient tint of the element. If the element type is set to Image, the Flare Texture is multiplied by this color.

Constant Color

Property	Description
Tint Angular	Specifies the angular gradient tint of the element. If the element type is set to Image, the Flare Texture is multiplied by this color.

Common

Cutoff

Property	Description
Cutoff Speed	Sets the speed at which the radius occludes the element. A value of zero (with a large radius) does not occlude anything. The higher this value, the faster the element is occluded on the side of the screen. The effect of this value is more noticeable with multiple elements.
Cutoff Radius	Sets the normalized radius of the lens shape used to occlude the lens flare element. A radius of one is equivalent to the scale of the element.

Transform

Property	Description
Position Offset	Defines the offset of the lens flare’s position in screen space, relative to its source.
Auto Rotate	Enable this property to automatically rotate the Lens Flare Texture relative to its angle on the screen. Unity uses the Auto Rotate angle to override the Rotation parameter. To ensure the Lens Flare can rotate, assign a value greater than 0 to the Starting Position property.
Rotation	Rotates the lens flare. This value operates in degrees of rotation.
Size	Use this to adjust the scale of this lens flare element. This property is not available when the Type is set to Image and Preserve Aspect Ratio is enabled.
Scale	The size of this lens flare element in world space.

Axis Transform

Property	Description
Starting Position	Defines the starting position of the lens flare relative to its source. This value operates in screen space.
Angular Offset	Controls the angular offset of the lens flare, relative to its current position. This value operates in degrees of rotation.
Translation Scale	Limits the size of the lens flare offset. For example, values of (1, 0) create a horizontal lens flare, and (0, 1) create a vertical lens flare. You can also use this property to control how quickly the lens flare appears to move. For example, values of (0.5, 0.5) make the lens flare element appear to move at half the speed.

Distortion

Property	Description
Enable	Set this property to True to enable distortion.
Radial Edge Size	Controls the size of the distortion effectAn audio effect that modifies the sound by squashing and clipping the waveform to produce a rough, harsh result. More info See in Glossary from the edge of the screen.
Radial Edge Curve	Blends the distortion effect along a curve from the center of the screen to the edges of the screen.
Relative To Center	Set this value to True to make distortion relative to the center of the screen. Otherwise, distortion is relative to the screen position of the lens flare.

Multiple Elements

Property	Description
Enable	Enable this to allow multiple lens flare elements in your scene.
Count	Determines the number of identical lens flare elements Unity generates. A value of 1 appears the same as a single lens flare element.
Distribution	Select the method that Unity uses to generate multiple lens flare elements: Uniform Curve Random
Length Spread	Controls how spread out multiple lens flare elements appear.
Relative To Center	If true the distortion is relative to center of the screen otherwise relative to lensFlare source screen position.

Uniform

Property	Description
Colors	The range of colors that this asset applies to the lens flares.
Rotation	The angle of rotation (in degrees) applied to each element incrementally.

Curve

Property	Description
Colors	The range of colors that this asset applies to the lens flares. You can use the Position Spacing curve to determine how this range affects each lens flare.
Position Variation	Adjust this curve to change the placement of the lens flare elements in the Lens Spread.
Rotation	The uniform angle of rotation (in degrees) applied to each element distributed along the curve. This value ranges from –180° to 180°.
Scale	Adjust this curve to control the size range of the lens flare elements.

Random

Property	Description
Seed	The base value that this asset uses to generate randomness.
Intensity Variation	Controls the variation of brightness across the lens flare elements. A high value can make some elements might invisible.
Colors	The range of colors that this asset applies to the lens flares. This property is based on the Seed value.
Position Variation	Controls the position of the lens flares. The X value is spread along the same axis as Length Spread. A value of 0 means there is no change in the lens flare position. The Y value is spread along the vertical screen space axis based on the Seed value.
Rotation Variation	Controls the rotation variation of the lens flares, based on the Seed value. The Rotation and Auto Rotate parameters inherit from this property.
Scale Variation	Controls the scale of the lens flares based on the Seed value.