2D Shooter: Getting Started with Post Processing

Sabrina Windsor
2 min readJul 31, 2021

Objective: Install the Unity Post Processing Package and add some color variations to the game.

First go to window > package manager > find post processing > install.

Now make an empty object, name is post processing volume, and add a component with the same name to it. Go to the main camera and add the component “Post Processing Layer”. You also want to change the layer to a new one dedicated for post processing. To do this, go to the top of the inspector where you can select layers, in the drop down menu there is an option to create a new layer. This is the layer to change to in the component, and the main layer in the Volume gameobject.

Now in the Volume game object in the component, add a profile. Unity should organize it for you. Now you can finally play around with all the settings so you can get your game looking like this:

To this:

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Sabrina Windsor

Currently learning to code with the help of GamedevHQ in order to someday my my game ideas come to life!