What’s New in CelShaderFX v2.1

Release notes — customer-facing. Use this for the Asset Store “Latest update” notes, the in-package CHANGELOG, and the v2.1 announcement post.

TL;DR

v2.1 is a content + tooling + polish release that makes CelShaderFX faster to use and easier to ship with:

37 built-in presets (up from 24) — every one now ships with a rendered thumbnail in the Preset Browser, so you pick a look by sight instead of by name.
13 brand-new preset styles that finally exercise the under-used modules: Ghibli, Cyberpunk, Vaporwave, Risograph, Sin City, Ukiyo-e, Charcoal, and more.
Unity 6.4 (URP 17.4) support — verified from Unity 2021.3 LTS all the way to the latest Unity 6.4, across Built-In, URP, and HDRP.
New runtime scripting API (Ultimate): the CelShaderAPI one-call facade plus drop-in components for trigger-volume and distance-based preset crossfades.
Visual fixes: Halftone no longer “swims” under camera rotation; Kuwahara, Watercolor, and Painterly looks retuned; tiled hatch patterns are now seamless.
Under the hood: a full settings architecture refactor with automatic, no-action asset migration — your existing settings, presets, and Volume profiles upgrade themselves on first load.

Nothing you built breaks. Existing CelShaderSettings assets, presets, and URP/HDRP Volume profiles migrate automatically the first time they load. The only thing to know about is for customers who script against the package directly — see Upgrade notes at the end.

37 presets, now with thumbnails

The preset library grew from 24 to 37 one-click looks, and the Preset Browser now shows a 256×256 rendered thumbnail of each one — captured from the actual effect, so what you see is what you get. No more guessing what “Risograph” looks like from the name.

13 new presets in v2.1, deliberately chosen to show off modules the older library never touched (Color Correction, Pixelate, Dithering, ASCII):

New preset	Look	Category
Ghibli	Soft painterly anime with a warm Ghibli colour grade	Anime
Modern Anime	Crisp modern anime: sharp bands, clean JFA rim	Anime
Ligne Claire	European comic: clean uniform lines, flat bold colour	Comic
Risograph	Riso print: coarse halftone, limited warm palette, heavy grain	Comic
Gouache	Matte flat-painterly with a soft thin outline	Painting
Ukiyo-e	Japanese woodblock: flat colour fields, bold ink, paper texture	Painting
Sin City	Stark graphic-novel ink over a hard black-and-white split	Drawing
Charcoal	Soft charcoal: smudged tones, fine hatching, paper grain	Drawing
PS1 Demake	Lo-fi retro: chunky pixelation, ordered dither, hard banding	Retro
Cyberpunk	Neon-noir colour grade with a glowing rim light	Experimental
Vaporwave	80s split-tone pink/cyan with banding and dither	Experimental
Blueprint	Technical schematic: cool blue monochrome with XDoG line work	Experimental
Terminal	Green-phosphor terminal: ASCII rendering with CRT tint	Experimental

The reworked Pixel Art preset now actually pixelates (it previously didn’t), and stays crisp and vibrant to contrast with PS1 Demake’s chunky, heavy-dither look.

What’s New in CelShaderFX v2.1

TL;DR

37 presets, now with thumbnails

Unity 6.4 support — the whole LTS range, all three pipelines