Curved World

About Curved World – Unity VFX & Shader Pack

Unity Curved World Shader

Curved World is a vertex displacement shader system that creates the appearance of a bent mesh or entire scene without modifying the original geometry. Its effects include exaggerated horizon curves, horizon bending, spherical worlds, Little Planet, cylindrical roll-off, cylindrical tower, spiral bending, the Inception effect, and twisted corridors.

World Bending Effects

The shader-based approach changes how geometry is displaced for the camera view while leaving the underlying meshes unchanged. Because the geometry itself is not converted, the effect does not alter physics, animation, AI, pathfinding, or other mesh transformations.

Curved World includes ready-to-use shaders for mobile and high-end devices. For custom shaders, integration is available through Shader Graph and Amplify Shader Editor using one node, allowing existing shader workflows to incorporate the bending effect.

Shader Integration

Source code is included. Curved World supports the Built-in, Universal (URP), and High Definition (HDRP) render pipelines, with supported Unity versions including Unity 6000.6, Unity 6000.3, Unity 6000.0, and Unity 2022.3.

Curved World can also work with assets that support its shader-bending system, including Amplify Shader Editor, Fluid Frenzy, Toony Colors Pro 2, Stylized Grass Shader, Stylized Water 2, DirectX 11 Grass Shader, Wireframe Shader, Advanced Dissolve, Beast - Advanced Tessellation Shader, Lowpoly Shader, Subsurface Scattering Shader, and Terrain To Mesh. Compatibility with these assets should be checked with their respective asset owners.

Use Cases

• Runner-style environments where a visible horizon or roadway needs to bend while the underlying scene geometry remains unchanged.
• Projects requiring spherical, cylindrical, spiral, or twisted visual effects without converting meshes into those physical shapes.
• Shader-based projects using Shader Graph or Amplify Shader Editor that need custom world-bending effects.
• Mobile and high-end projects that need ready-to-use shaders for camera-visible world curvature.

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