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Unity Asset Store Freebie Friday: This weeks Publisher Asset

Jun 16, 2023
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Every week Unity Asset Store has a publisher sale and you get a free asset. This week's Publisher sale is Gabriel Aguiar's - VFX Graph Stylized Smoke. Coupon Code = GABRIEL ► Unity Asset Store Freebie - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/particles/vfx-graph-stylized-smoke-vol-1-207694?aid=11

Written Guide

A Unity Asset Store Freebie Friday roundup. Each week the Asset Store runs a publisher sale, and the featured publisher gives away one asset free with a coupon code. This week the publisher is Gabriel Aguiar and the freebie is Stylized Smoke.

The publisher sale format

The Unity Asset Store runs a publisher sale every week. One publisher is featured, their catalogue goes on discount, and one asset from that catalogue is made completely free with a coupon.

Gabriel Aguiar is a VFX publisher, so the discounted catalogue is all effects work. The lineup includes an Ultra Mega VFX pack, a projectiles multi-pack, and a range of other effect packs, all on sale for the duration of the week.

What the freebie is

The free asset this week is Stylized Smoke. It's a ready-made stylized smoke effect built using Unity's VFX Graph, so you're getting a finished, working effect rather than a set of textures to assemble yourself.

That distinction is worth understanding. Because it's authored in VFX Graph, you can open it up and adjust it: change the color, the density, the lifetime, the emission rate. It's a starting point you can retune for your own game, which makes it considerably more useful than a baked effect you can only use as-is. It's also a good reference for anyone learning VFX Graph, since you get to see how someone experienced structured a graph for a specific look.

How to claim it

The process takes about a minute. On the publisher sale page, scroll down to find the coupon code. For this week it's gabriel.

Copy the code, then click through to get your gift. Go to the free asset, click Buy Now, and at checkout enter the coupon code gabriel and hit Apply. The price drops to zero and the asset is added to your account permanently.

Worth doing every week

Even if you don't need stylized smoke today, claiming the freebie takes a minute and the asset stays in your Asset Store library for good. Over a year that's roughly fifty free assets across a wide range of publishers.

The other reason to check in weekly is discovery. Publisher sales surface creators you'd probably never search for directly, and a free asset is a low-risk way to judge whether the rest of their catalogue is worth your money later. A link to the sale sits in the video description.

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