VFX Secrets: Design 2D Visual Effects for Games in Godot

Learn to design beautiful 2D visual effects with the free game engine Godot.

This hands-on text-based tutorial series will teach you essential techniques to design effects such as explosions, ghost trails behind the player as in Castlevania games, lasers, background animation, and more.

What you will learn

You will learn to:

• Design advanced visual effects with Godot’s particle systems.
• Layer particles and textures to achieve professional visuals.

Prerequisites

To follow this course, you should know how to work with Godot’s editor. Things such as adding nodes, resources inside of nodes, and using the Inspector.

If you have no experience with Godot, we wrote a complete Free Godot guide for beginners to get you started.

Free and open-source

The code from this project is available from the MIT license. In short, you can use it and modify it freely, even in commercial projects.

You can find all the effects from the course on this GitHub page.

By buying this course, you support GDQuest and the creation of Free Software.

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We will send you a payment request via PayPal. Once paid, you will get access to the course within two business days.

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60 days refund warranty

If you don’t like the course or you didn’t learn anything, send us a message within 60 days after your purchase to get an instant refund!

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