Line renderer with different end texture | Official Unity Discord | Page 1

surreal kayak Dec 3, 2025, 3:27 PM

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So I'm trying to use the line renderer to draw a vine from a boss to a tree, but i want it to draw the end of it differently. I've been going absolutely coocoo trying find a solution but to no avail. The image is edited to show the desired result.. Hope at least SOMEONE looks at this post ;-; :exhausted:

ancient basin Dec 3, 2025, 3:31 PM

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I see two solutions here :

A custom shader : can be a bit tricky to do
Just slap a quad/sprite object at the end of the line 🙂

surreal kayak Dec 3, 2025, 5:50 PM

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ancient basin I see two solutions here : 1. A custom shader : can be a bit tricky to do 2. Ju...

a quad?

surreal kayak Dec 4, 2025, 7:50 AM

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@ancient basin wdym by quad?

ancient basin Dec 4, 2025, 8:04 AM

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I added a small gap to better visualize, but here I have a line renderer on the left, and a quad on the right :

ancient basin Dec 4, 2025, 8:27 AM

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@surreal kayak

surreal kayak Dec 4, 2025, 8:28 AM

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Wait what

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How'd you do that??

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@ancient basin

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I googled what a quad is and apparently it's a sprite polygon

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I've tried using that as well, but it didn't work

ancient basin Dec 4, 2025, 8:32 AM

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surreal kayak Dec 4, 2025, 8:33 AM

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Oh. Is it only for 3d objects?

ancient basin Dec 4, 2025, 8:33 AM

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The line renderer has a material with the tiling texture, and the quad an other material with the end texture that matches.

ancient basin Dec 4, 2025, 8:34 AM

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surreal kayak Oh. Is it only for 3d objects?

No, it should also work for 2D.
The line renderer is a 3D object to start with anyway.

surreal kayak Dec 4, 2025, 8:34 AM

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Ok thanks, I'll ping again if I run any more problems with it

ancient basin Dec 4, 2025, 8:35 AM

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Do you want it for 2D though ?

surreal kayak Dec 4, 2025, 8:35 AM

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Yes

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My game is 2D

ancient basin Dec 4, 2025, 8:35 AM

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Is the "thing" supposed ot be straight ?

surreal kayak Dec 4, 2025, 8:35 AM

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Yes

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It's a vine

ancient basin Dec 4, 2025, 8:35 AM

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There you have an even easier solution, let me set that up for screenshots

surreal kayak Dec 4, 2025, 8:36 AM

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It goes from a boss to nearby trees

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Which is like 5 or so trees at once

ancient basin Dec 4, 2025, 8:43 AM

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You can use the sprite renderer with a "9-slice" sprite : https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/sprite/9-slice/9-slice-sprite.html

surreal kayak Dec 4, 2025, 8:44 AM

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is the vineSlice the quad at the end?

ancient basin Dec 4, 2025, 8:45 AM

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Here I made a right only border, that separates the end of the repeating section of a single sprite image.
Assign it to a sprite renderer with "tiled" mode, set to the proper size, and it will repeat the "center" section, while only have one "end" section, allowing you to have a dynamic dimention of vine.

surreal kayak Dec 4, 2025, 8:47 AM

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ancient basin

what does the line renderer look like for you with this setup?

ancient basin Dec 4, 2025, 8:48 AM

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It's no more a line renderer. It's a sprite renderer.

surreal kayak Dec 4, 2025, 8:48 AM

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o h .

ancient basin Dec 4, 2025, 8:49 AM

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The VineSlice is a single texture like I mentioned.

surreal kayak Dec 4, 2025, 8:53 AM

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it's not quite what i was after, since it tiles from the end of it..

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IT WORKS!!!

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@ancient basin TYYYYY

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catjam

surreal kayak Dec 4, 2025, 11:49 AM

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@ancient basin btw how would i set the vine to move towards a dynamic position?

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because it's not like setting a line renderer position

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