Visual Effects

VisualEffectAssets are not fully recoverable. The VisualEffectAsset itself is recoverable, but that is not very useful because its original structure is lost. Normal vfx files are structured like this:

• MonoBehaviour uv info - the MonoBehaviour that specifies various properties like the UI bounds.
  • It is referenced from the graph.
• MonoBehaviour graph - the graph of nodes that make up the visual effect.
  • It is referenced from the resource.
• VisualEffectResource - the asset that contains the name and render settings.
  • It has a "random" fileID. In the single example I've seen, it was 8926484042661614527.

There is no VisualEffectAsset encoded because it is silently generated by the VisualEffectImporter. In the single example I've seen, its fileID was 8926484042661614526, 1 less than the VisualEffectResource.

All the MonoBehaviours have a standard fileID, ie 114 followed by 15 random digits.

Without the VisualEffectResource, errors are thrown when adding a visual effect to a scene.

NullReferenceException: VFX resource does not exist for this asset at path: