Screen Space Cavity & Curvature — for Unity 6 URP Volume Effect

Enhance surface definition and small geometric detail with a Blender-style screen-space cavity and curvature effect for Unity 6 URP.

Screen Space Cavity & Curvature analyzes the camera depth and normal buffers to emphasize recessed details, convex edges, and concave surfaces in real time. It can improve the readability of vehicles, environments, props, architecture, and stylized scenes without requiring additional textures or changes to existing materials.

The effect integrates directly with Unity’s Volume framework and supports both Global and Local Volumes. All major settings can be adjusted at runtime, including cavity strength, curvature intensity, radius, colors, distance fading, quality, and debug visualization.

Designed for Unity 6 URP, the package includes support for the RenderGraph rendering path as well as Compatibility Mode.

Key Features

• Blender-style screen-space cavity enhancement
• Convex ridge highlighting
• Concave valley darkening
• Independent cavity, ridge, and valley controls
• Custom colors for each effect channel
• Adjustable sampling radius and intensity
• Depth rejection to reduce edge halos
• Camera-distance fading
• Low, Medium, and High quality presets
• Multiple debug visualization modes
• Global and Local Volume support
• Runtime parameter control
• Unity 6 RenderGraph support
• URP Compatibility Mode support
• Forward and Deferred renderer support
• No changes required to standard URP materials
• Suitable for vehicles, props, architecture, and environments

Ideal For

• Racing and driving games
• Stylized games
• Vehicle presentation
• Architectural visualization
• Product visualization
• Environment art
• Technical and debug rendering
• Scenes that require stronger geometric readability

Package Content Disclaimer: The package includes the Screen Space Cavity & Curvature effect, source code, shader, documentation, and a demonstration scene containing a small Funbooster logo model, one texture, one mesh, and a prefab.

All other vehicles, props, materials, and models shown in promotional screenshots are used for demonstration purposes only and are not included.

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