gdquest-demos/godot-visual-effects

Open-source visual effects designed in Godot, from our VFX Secrets course.

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updated May 16, 2026

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Godot Visual Effects

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Godot Visual Effects is a Free and Open-Source set of polished visual effects from our course Godot VFX Secrets.

➡ Follow us on Twitter and YouTube for free game creation tutorials, tips, and news! Get one of our Godot game creation courses to support our work on Free Software.

Laser effect

This hands-on tutorial series will teach you essential techniques to design effects such as explosions, ghost trails behind the player as in Castlevania games, lasers, background animation, and more.

Available effects

All available effects are currently 2D-only.

  • Explosion
  • Laser beam
  • Ghost trail or after image
  • Starfield
  • Trail that follows the character

Trail effect

How to use

Download the Godot project. Each effect is in a self-contained directory with all its dependencies.

To add an effect to your project, copy its directory to the root of your project, and move it from Godot's FileSystem tab. That's it!

Explosion effect

Contributing

Contributors are welcome!

If you encounter a bug, please open an issue.

If you want to contribute to the project, for instance by fixing a bug or adding a feature, check out our:

  1. Contributor guidelines.
  2. GDScript style guide
explosions
gam
game-asset
godot
godot-visual-effects
laser
trail
vfx-secrets

gdquest-demos/godot-visual-effects

Open-source visual effects designed in Godot, from our VFX Secrets course.

GDScript

1,334

51 commits

updated May 16, 2026

See the code

README

Godot Visual Effects

project banner

Godot Visual Effects is a Free and Open-Source set of polished visual effects from our course Godot VFX Secrets.

➡ Follow us on Twitter and YouTube for free game creation tutorials, tips, and news! Get one of our Godot game creation courses to support our work on Free Software.

Laser effect

This hands-on tutorial series will teach you essential techniques to design effects such as explosions, ghost trails behind the player as in Castlevania games, lasers, background animation, and more.

Available effects

All available effects are currently 2D-only.

  • Explosion
  • Laser beam
  • Ghost trail or after image
  • Starfield
  • Trail that follows the character

Trail effect

How to use

Download the Godot project. Each effect is in a self-contained directory with all its dependencies.

To add an effect to your project, copy its directory to the root of your project, and move it from Godot's FileSystem tab. That's it!

Explosion effect

Contributing

Contributors are welcome!

If you encounter a bug, please open an issue.

If you want to contribute to the project, for instance by fixing a bug or adding a feature, check out our:

  1. Contributor guidelines.
  2. GDScript style guide
explosions
gam
game-asset
godot
godot-visual-effects
laser
trail
vfx-secrets

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