MagicEye

Bring characters to life with MagicEye ✨

Compatibility information⚙️

Unity 6 / URP 17

Forward and Forward+

Works in WebGL

MagicEye is a shader that replaces flat "painted-on" eye textures with an eye that behaves like one.

🎯Works on rigged characters, with no setup

Features:

Iris parallax – the view ray refracts through the cornea at a real index of refraction, so the iris genuinely sits beneath the surface instead of being painted on it

Iris Curvature – tapers the parallax depth toward the limbus so the rim stays pinned and never smears

Corneal dome – shapes the long, stretched highlight real eyes carry near the limbus. Analytic, so it changes the shading without touching the silhouette

Runtime pupil dilation – a runtime component that reproduces the real pupillary reflex: constricts fast, dilates slowly. It raycasts toward the light, so an eye standing in shadow dilates like it should

Sclera veins with a Bloodshot slider

Limbal ring, limbal scatter and sclera translucency

Lower iris glow – the bounce off the back of the eye onto the lower iris. Anchored to world down, so it stays at the bottom however the eye rotates, with a Glow Angle offset

Reflection probe support – separate cornea and sclera reflection strengths, plus Fresnel power and smoothness

View-space catchlight – keeps a glint in the eye even when the key light swings behind the character

Custom inspector with a tooltip on every control