Procedural Planets for URP and HDRP
Create realistic or stylized celestial bodies for your space-themed projects with this versatile toolset of procedural shaders and materials.
Create realistic or stylized celestial bodies for your space-themed projects with this versatile toolset of procedural shaders and materials.* This page contains affiliate links, meaning we may earn a small commission if you purchase something through them, at no extra cost. $14.99
- Category:
- 3D › Environments › Sci-fi
- Developer:
- Dmitry Andreev
- Price:
- $14.99
- Rating:
- Favorites:
- 3
- Supported Unity Versions:
- 2022.3.59 or higher
- Current Version:
- 1.2
- Download Size:
- 9.31 MB
- Last Update:
- Mar 10, 2025
- Description:
- The Procedural Planets for URP and HDRP Asset is a comprehensive toolset designed for developers and artists creating space-themed projects. It offers a collection of highly customizable procedural shaders that allow for the generation of Earth-like, lava, gas giant, and moon-like planets. With entirely procedural workflows, these shaders eliminate the need for external textures, enabling infinite variations of planets while conserving disk space in your project.
Each shader is meticulously crafted with custom HLSL files and Shader Graph nodes, including 3D noise generators (Perlin, Voronoi, and multi-octave variants). These nodes enable realistic and dynamic surface features such as craters, mountains, atmospheric bands, and procedural blending between terrain types.
The asset includes five presets for each planet type, a DDS texture of a starry skybox, and a high-poly geosphere model for testing and demonstration purposes. This asset is perfect for space exploration games, planetarium software, or any project that requires realistic or stylized celestial bodies. - Technical Details:
- Key Features:
* Comprehensive Shader Collection:
+ Earth-Like Planet Shader: Simulates terrestrial worlds with regions such as deserts, forests, mountains, and polar snow caps.
+ Lava Planet Shader: Features molten surfaces, glowing lava flows, and dynamic emissive effects.
+ Gas Giant Shader: Recreates swirling atmospheric bands, turbulent layers, and dynamic storm spots.
+ Moon Shader: Procedurally generates cratered surfaces with adjustable crater count, size, and distribution.
+ Atmospheric Shader: Simulates planetary atmospheres with dynamic wind-driven clouds, layering for realistic atmospheric visuals.
* Procedural Generation:
+ Fully procedural shaders eliminate the need for external textures.
+ Infinite variations for each planet type with customizable parameters.
+ No storage overhead, enabling lightweight, high-performance implementations.
* Custom HLSL and Shader Graph Nodes:
+ 3D noise generators: Includes Perlin, multi-octave Perlin, and Voronoi noise functions for highly detailed surface features.
+ Specialized procedural elements: Crater generation, mountain ridges and distortions, atmospheric turbulence, and gas giant stripe layering.
* Included Assets:
+ 20 Planet Materials Presets: Five unique presets for each planet type to kickstart your creative process.
+ Dynamic Atmosphere material and shader
+ Planet rings shader and material
+ DDS Starry Skybox Texture: A 1024x1024 texture example for creating immersive space environments.
+ High-Poly Geosphere Model: A 20k polygon FBX model optimized for showcasing procedural shaders.
+ Planet Orbiter script for a simple demonstration
* HDRP Samples:
+ 7 material presets
+ 8 HDRP shaders
+ 4 prefabs and demo scene - Continue »