Pixel Palette Pro – Instant Stylization

Make your game look amazing from day one. Turn a kit-bashed prototype into a cohesive visual feast straight away. Apply awesome palettes from Lospec and nail the retro pixel-art aesthetic.

Platform Support:

• Unity 6000.0.x
• Universal Render Pipeline URP 16+
• Web/Desktop/Mobile
• OpenGL/Vulkan/DirectX

Implementation:

• Bakes the configured palette ahead-of-time with a compute shader (w/CPU fallback)
• Lightweight runtime shader applies the pre-baked palette
• CIELAB color space used to match screen colors to the palette
• Source code provided

Suggested Applications:

• Color-grading
• High-def newspaper/comic-book style
• Low-def pixel-art style

Color Palettes:

• Curated presets built-in
• Custom palettes
• Import from Lospec
• Import from any image
• Automatically add varying brightness shades of each palette color

Visual Effects:

• Apply color palette to the scene
• Hue/Saturation/Lightness adjustment before palette is applied
• Pixelation with adjustable size
• Optional dithering/interpolation to reduce color banding
• Adjustable smoothing to reduce shimmer/flicker under camera movement
• Silhouettes drawn around outside of objects
• Creases/corners drawn inside objects
• Independent colors/thicknesses specifiable for silhouettes and creases
• Masks can be used to restrict outlines to only particular objects

Quality-of-Life:

• Minimal setup (2 steps, add renderer feature + script component)
• Effects render in the editor for realtime preview
• Instant feedback when tweaking parameters
• Handles camera overlays automatically (e.g. weapon overlay)
• Multiple palette configs supported, switch between them with one click
• Easily toggle the effect on/off for a before/after comparison
• Control when the effect executes (e.g. before/after other post-processing effects)