LarkLab
Procedural VFX Shader Pack · EEVEE & Cycles · Blender 5.0 – 5.2
Aether Pillars
20 Animated Energy Beam Shaders
Heal, shield, trap, teleport, scan, mark the loot. One tube, one disc, twenty spells. Every pillar is fully procedural, already animated, and ready the moment you press play.
| 20 effects | EEVEE & Cycles | Animated out of the box | 0 textures · 0 UVs | Royalty-free |
Real renders from the included showcase scene. What you see is what you get.
Why Aether Pillars
The beam effect you keep rebuilding, finished twenty times over
| 01 Moves the moment you press play Time is wired to the frame for you. No keyframes to set up: pulses, runes, arcs and flames are already moving. | 02 One look in EEVEE and Cycles Preview in EEVEE, then render the final in Cycles without the look changing. Cycles renders stay clean and noise-free. | 03 100% procedural, seamless Pure shader math in object space. No textures, no UVs, and no seam where the tube wraps around. Crisp at any resolution. |
The collection
20 pillars, each with its own personality
SUPPORT COMBAT TECH PREMIUM Every preview is a 5-second real render.
01 · SUPPORT
Healing Beacon
Emerald motes and soft pulses rise from a blooming rune.
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02 · SUPPORT
Force-Field Barrier
A hex shield with impact shockwaves and bright rims.
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03 · SUPPORT
Arcane Ward
Rings of glyphs turning in opposite directions.
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04 · SUPPORT
Divine Blessing
White-gold light, rising halos and a radiant seal.
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05 · SUPPORT
Resurrection
Fragments fall, rebuild the column, then flash.
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06 · COMBAT
Containment Prison
Red cage bars and energy bands that lock shut.
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07 · COMBAT
Void Rift
Shards spiral into a dark core that tears and glitches.
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08 · COMBAT
Lightning Conduit
Branching arcs that re-strike and flash.
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09 · COMBAT
Inferno Pillar
Turbulent flame sheets and swirling embers.
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10 · COMBAT
Frost Spire
Crystal cracks, glinting facets and falling snow.
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11 · COMBAT
Toxic Corruption
Bubbling sludge and dark, crawling rot.
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12 · COMBAT
Arcane Overload
Unstable surges and overbright bursts.
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13 · TECH
Scanner Field
A scan plane sweeps through a wireframe.
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14 · TECH
Teleportation Gate
Spins up, builds in stages, breaks into pixels.
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15 · TECH
Objective Beacon
A clean shaft and slow rings, readable from afar.
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16 · TECH
Hazard Warning Zone
Blinking alarm bars and warning triangles.
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17 · TECH
Hard-Light Fabricator
A wireframe snaps together, row by row.
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18 · PREMIUM
Spirit Ascension
Spectral ribbons and wisps drift upward.
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19 · PREMIUM
Time Distortion Field
Time freezes, then races to catch up.
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20 · PREMIUM
Corrupted Data Core
Torn rows, vanishing sections, red scanlines.
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More than loops
Three pillars play out a full story
Resurrection gathers falling fragments into a column that ends in a flash. Teleportation Gate spins up, builds in four stages, then breaks apart into pixels. Hard-Light Fabricator snaps a wireframe together row by row. Set the length with one Cycle Length value.
| Make it yours One beacon, every rarity tierChange Color A and Color B and the whole effect follows: rings, particles, base seal and glow. Common, rare, epic and legendary markers in under a minute. The same goes for team colors, elemental variants or matching your game's UI. |  |
Pillar finder
Whatever your scene needs, there's a pillar for it
Twenty effects that cover the moments games and trailers use most. Find your use case and start from the right pillar.
Heals, buffs & revives
Support abilities, level-ups and "you are safe here" moments.
01 Healing Beacon04 Divine Blessing05 Resurrection18 Spirit Ascension
| Shields & wards
Barriers, protection spells and traps that hold an enemy in place.
02 Force-Field Barrier03 Arcane Ward06 Containment Prison
| Elemental attacks
Classic damage spells: shock, burn, freeze and poison.
08 Lightning Conduit09 Inferno Pillar10 Frost Spire11 Toxic Corruption
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Reality-bending magic
Boss phases, portals to nowhere and spells that break the rules.
07 Void Rift12 Arcane Overload19 Time Distortion Field
| Sci-fi & tech
Teleporters, scanners, fabrication bays and hacked machines.
13 Scanner Field14 Teleportation Gate17 Hard-Light Fabricator20 Corrupted Data Core
| Gameplay markers
Readable signals: loot, objectives, danger zones. Clear from any distance.
15 Objective Beacon16 Hazard Warning Zone
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How it works
From download to glowing in under a minute
| 1 Append File ▸ Append ▸ Object ▸ grab a ready pillar. Or append just the _Column and _Base materials. | 2 Place & scale Drop it into your scene and scale the object freely: a thin sky beam, a wide summoning circle, anything in between. | 3 Press play & render It animates immediately. Render in EEVEE or Cycles, and add the included Bloom setup for the full glow. |
Under the hood
Node trees you can actually read
Every effect has the same layout: numbered, color-coded frames with a note above each one, and a READ ME inside the group. Learn one pillar and you know all twenty. Great for learning procedural VFX, too.
| Shared controls on every pillar
| Plus effect-specific controls Hex Count and Ripple Rate. Rune Rings and Glyphs Per Ring. Flicker Rate and Flash Chance. Flame Height, Bubble Size, Glitch Amount, Freeze Rhythm... Extra outputs Color and intensity masks for the column and the base, ready to drive particles, lights or your own shaders. |
What's included
In the download
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Requirements
Compatibility & license
| Blender | 5.0 – 5.2 |
| Render engines | EEVEE and Cycles (same materials) |
| Add-on needed | None. Pure shader node groups in a .blend |
| Mesh | Any open cylinder + flat disc. No UVs or textures needed |
| License | Royalty-free. Use it in personal and commercial projects with no extra fees or credit required. |
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