Create a six-way lit particle system in Visual Effect Graph

Set up a particle system in Visual Effect Graph that uses six-way lighting to achieve enhanced realism for smoke or explosion effects.

To create and configure a six-way lit particle system, follow these steps:

1. Open a Visual Effect Graph or create a new one.

2. Set the system to burst a single particle, and allocate memory for one particle.

3. Right-click the Output Particle context, then convert the output to a lit quad.

4. Set Material Type to Six-Way Smoke Lit in the Inspector window.

5. Drag and drop the two six-way lightmap textures from your Assets folder to the Output Particle context positive and negative axes lightmap slots, respectively.

6. Set the Output Particle context UV Mode to Flipbook.

7. Set the Output Particle context Flip Book size to match the number of frames.

8. Configure the emissive settings in the Inspector window:

   • Set Emissive Mode to Single Channel. This mode uses the alpha channel of the second texture.
   • Adjust Exposure Weight and Emissive Multiplier as needed.

9. Adjust six-way lighting settings as needed to achieve the desired effect.