Lumen: Stylized Light FX 2 v2.1.2 (20 Apr 2026) brings your scenes to life with glowing flares, sweeping god rays, and dynamic lighting that feels real, looks magical, and runs fast. This complete stylized lighting toolkit is built for performance, beauty, and ease of use, designed for artists and developers who want the look of volumetrics without the overhead. Inspired by lighting effects in games like Genshin Impact, Overland, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and Alto's Adventure, Lumen 2 provides powerful mesh-based lighting systems that capture the mood and direction of volumetric lighting with minimal cost. Whether developing a cozy platformer, a mysterious horror title, or a colorful RPG, Lumen ensures your lighting stands out.
The resource pack includes four stylized lighting systems:
- **Light Flares**: Add warmth, focus, and energy to scenes. These glows and halos simulate volumetric point lights and can be used to accent lanterns, torches, magic orbs, and more. Use them for glowing auras or subtle lighting softening.
- **Static Rays**: Ideal for sunshafts, god rays, or spotlight cones. These mesh-based rays work in both 2D and 3D games, allowing directional placement to guide the player’s eye or add ambient drama.
- **Dynamic Rays**: Use vertex colors and a custom shader system to animate and orient rays in real time. Great for day-night cycles, faking directional lighting, or responding to gameplay events—efficiently and with low GPU impact.
- **(NEW) Dynamic Fake Lights**: Introduce realistic, animated lighting effects without the performance cost of true volumetrics.
Why use mesh-based lighting? True volumetric lighting is visually stunning but expensive, requiring multiple depth samples, post-processing, and large textures that can degrade performance on mid-range devices. Lumen avoids these costs by using vertex-lit meshes with lightweight shaders, delivering:
- No heavy render passes
- No reliance on post-processing
- No large 3D textures
- Low memory and GPU usage
- Compatibility with any rendering resolution
- Consistent performance across platforms, from PC to mobile
This approach enables developers to achieve the emotional impact of lighting while maintaining high frame rates. Lumen provides the same flexibility with enhanced control and efficiency.
Key feature highlights include:
- Scriptable object profiles for quick editing and saving
- Full 3D mesh-based effects that scale without resolution loss
- Depth and camera-based fading for cinematic transitions
- Custom layering system for fine-grained control
- Lightweight shaders optimized for real-time rendering
- Built with Amplify Shader Editor for full source access
- Noise-driven animation system for pulsing, flickering, or drifting effects
- Global, local, and per-layer controls
- Intuitive editor UI/UX designed for ease of use
More information: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effects/lumen-stylized-light-fx-2-322150
