Screen Space Cavity & Curvature (Built-In/URP/HDRP)

An edge high-lighting and-low-lighting screen space effect for your objects, inspired by Blender's Viewport Cavity effect.

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✅ Built-In (2022/6+) • ✅ URP (14+) • ✅ HDRP (14+)

Big 6.0 Update! Unity 6 is now natively supported and optimized for.

Compatibility:

• ✔ Unity 2022 / 6+.

• ✔ Standard render pipeline, forward and deferred.

• ✔ Universal Render Pipeline 14+ (Unity 2022+).

• ✔ High Definition Render Pipeline 14+ (Unity 2022+).

• Super simple to use: simply add to your camera/render-pipeline and adjust parameters.

• The effect is split into two parts:

- Control small scale highlighting with "curvature" settings,

- And larger scale highlights with "cavity" settings.

Separate settings are available, enabling you to dial in the desired effect:

- Pixel radius of curvature, its brightness in outward curves and its darkness in inward curves.

- World radius of cavity, its brightness in outward curves and its darkness in inward curves.

• As a source of screenspace normals, all three sources are available to choose from:

- G-Buffer normals, Camera normals, and Depth-reconstructed normals.

• New feature: Control the effect per-object.

- Uses a new "output to global shader texture instead of the screen" mode. Example shaders included. Feature available for Builtin[2022/6], URP[2022/6].

• Mobile Friendly: About the same cost as SSAO. Supports a Half Resolution Cavity mode for extra performance.