Samples

Pixelate Pro ships with ready-to-export samples: a prop, an animated character and a fire effect, plus looks, palettes and camera rigs you can reuse. This page explains what each one shows and how to use them without changing the originals. Choose Pixelate > Samples to open the Project window at the sample Pixelate Assets. Everything lives in Assets/PixelateStudio/PixelatePro/_Samples:

Folder	What’s inside
`Pixelate Assets`	Chest, UnityChan and Fire: select one and click Export.
`Style Profiles`	9 ready-made looks.
`Palettes`	15 Pixelate Palettes.
`Camera Rigs`	4 sets of camera views.
`Source Art`	The 3D sources the samples use: `Characters/UnityChan`, `Props/Chest.prefab` and `VFX/ParticleSystem_Fire.prefab`, plus `Shaders/PixelateSampleUnlit.shader`, the unlit shader their materials use.

Sample Pixelate Assets

Select one, look at the Preview at the bottom of the Inspector, and click Export. No setup is needed. The exported files go next to the sample, in _Samples/Pixelate Assets.

Sample	Source	What it shows
Chest	`Source Art/Props/Chest.prefab`, a prefab	A still prop. One three-quarter view from above (SW), the Golden Hour look with lighting, outline and dithering baked into the sprite, and the pivot at the bottom (Bottom Center (Feet)). The asset also overrides the profile’s Dithering settings, so you can see what a per-asset override looks like. Exports one sheet.
UnityChan	`Source Art/Characters/UnityChan/Mesh/unitychan.fbx`, a model	An animated character for a side-scroller. Two clips, Run and Jump (Jump plays at 1.75x speed), both at 10 frames per second, and two views, Right and Left, from the linked CamRig_Sidescroller Camera Rig. Uses its own UnityChan look. File Name is `Player`, so the files are named `Player_Run_Right.png` and so on. Exports 4 sheets and 4 Animation Clips.
Fire	`Source Art/VFX/ParticleSystem_Fire.prefab`, a particle system	A fire particle effect. One Front view at 12 frames per second, with a Fixed Seed so every export is identical. Uses the Default look with its own automatic 8-color palette. Exports one sheet and one Animation Clip.

The sample materials use a small unlit shader, Pixelate Pro/Samples/Unlit (Source Art/Shaders/PixelateSampleUnlit.shader), so the samples look the same in URP and the Built-In Render Pipeline. All shading comes from Pixelate Pro’s own Lighting effect.

Style Profiles

Nine looks you can drop onto any Pixelate Asset. Drag one onto the Style Profile field of a Pixelate Asset, and the Preview updates right away. All of them use 32 pixels per unit, except UnityChan (48) and Linework (64, so its lines stay fine).

Style Profile	Look	Effects
Default	The plain starting point: your source’s own colors, reduced to an automatic 8-color palette. No lighting or outline.	Color Palette (Auto, 8 colors)
Golden Hour	Late-afternoon sun: warm light with cool blue shadows, a dark outline and light dithering.	Lighting, Color Palette (Sweetie 16), Dithering (Bayer 4x4, 40%), Lines (1 px outline)
Dusk	Orange light against blue-violet shade, soft dithered gradients, no outline.	Lighting, Color Palette (SLSO8), Dithering (Simple, 80%)
Moonlit	Cool, pale moonlight with a strong rim light on the edges, an outline and fine dithering.	Lighting, Color Palette (Nyx8), Dithering (Bayer 8x8, 60%), Lines (1 px outline)
Ember	Hot orange firelight from a low angle with purple shade, hard light bands and an outline.	Lighting, Color Palette (Resurrect 64), Lines (1 px outline)
Sorbet	A bright 4-color pastel look with dot dithering and an outline.	Lighting, Color Adjustments (Exposure 0.3), Color Palette (Ice Cream GB), Dithering (Dot, 70%), Lines (1 px outline)
Terminal	A two-tone monochrome monitor look with a fine checker dither.	Lighting, Color Adjustments (Saturation -100), Color Palette (1bit Monitor Glow), Dithering (Bayer 2x2, 50%)
Linework	A hand-inked look for props and scenes: a white outline, a dark inline, light and dark lines on hard edges and between overlapping parts, and horizontal-line dithering. No lighting.	Color Palette (Nyx8), Dithering (Horizontal Line, 80%), Lines (Outline, Inline, Normal Line and Depth Line)
UnityChan	The UnityChan sample’s own look: a lit character on the Endesga 32 palette with light dithering and Pixel Cleanup.	Lighting, Color Palette (Endesga 32), Pixel Cleanup, Dithering (30%)

The 1 px outlines of Golden Hour, Moonlit, Ember and Sorbet use the darkest color of the profile’s palette (Darkest Palette Color). Linework draws its lines in fixed colors, snapped to Nyx8; see Lines. Golden Hour, Dusk, Moonlit, Ember, Sorbet and Terminal have Export Lit Sprites and Palette Affects Lighting on and Export Normal Map off: the exported sprites carry their shading in palette colors, and no normal maps are written. See Lighting to change that.

New Pixelate Assets link the sample Default profile when you haven’t set a Default Style Profile in Settings and haven’t linked a profile of your own in a Pixelate Asset’s Inspector yet. The other sample profiles are never picked for you. See The default profile for new assets.

Palettes

Fifteen Pixelate Palettes for the Color Palette and Palette Swap effects. To use one, set a Color Palette effect’s Mode to Custom and pick the palette in Custom Palette.

Palette	Colors	Used by
1bit Monitor Glow	2	Terminal
Ice Cream GB	4	Sorbet
Kirokaze Gameboy	4
Mono Gameboy	4
Nyx8	8	Moonlit, Linework
SLSO8	8	Dusk
Warm Earth 8	8
Lost Century	16
PICO-8	16
Retro 16	16
Sweetie 16	16	Golden Hour
Fantasy 24	24
Endesga 32	32	UnityChan
Apollo	46
Resurrect 64	64	Ember

See Palettes to edit them or import your own .gpl, .pal or .hex files.

Camera Rigs

A Camera Rig is a reusable set of camera views. Link one in the Camera Rig field under Pixelate Asset Settings > Rendering. See Camera Rigs.

Camera Rig	Views	Good for
CamRig_Front	Front, straight on	Icons, effects and anything that faces the camera.
CamRig_Sidescroller	Right and Left, at eye level	Side-scroller characters.
CamRig_TopDownAngled	Front, Left, Back and Right, looking down at 45°	Four-direction top-down characters.
CamRig_TopDown8	S, SW, W, NW, N, NE, E and SE, looking down at 30°	Eight-direction top-down characters.

Use the samples in your own project

The samples are part of the package. A Pixelate Pro update overwrites them, and you may want to delete the _Samples folder later. So copy what you want to keep before you change it.

Duplicate

Select the sample in the Project window and choose Edit > Duplicate (Ctrl+D, or Cmd+D on macOS).

Move the copy

Drag the copy into your own folder and rename it.

Use the copy

Edit and assign the copy instead of the original. A copied Pixelate Asset exports next to its new location.

This works for every sample type: Pixelate Assets, Style Profiles, Palettes and Camera Rigs. To make a copied Style Profile or Camera Rig the starting point for every new Pixelate Asset, pick it as Default Style Profile or Default Camera Rig in Settings.

If you copy the sample models or materials too, keep in mind that the sample materials use the Pixelate Pro/Samples/Unlit shader from _Samples/Source Art/Shaders.

Removing or restoring the samples

You can delete the _Samples folder at any time. Assets you created yourself don’t depend on it, unless they link a sample profile, palette or Camera Rig. Copy those first, as described above, and link the copies. Check especially for the sample Default profile, which new Pixelate Assets link when you have no profile of your own (see the note under Style Profiles). The Pixelate Browser’s Profile filter shows which assets use it. To get the samples back, import the Pixelate Pro package again and select only the _Samples folder in the Import Unity Package window.

Credits

Twelve of the sample palettes were made by the artists below and published on Lospec. Their colors and order are unchanged. Thank you to their authors. The same list is in Third-Party Notices.md in the package folder. Mono Gameboy, Retro 16 and Warm Earth 8 were made for Pixelate Pro.

Palette	Author	Lospec page
1bit Monitor Glow	Polyducks	lospec.com/palette-list/1bit-monitor-glow
Kirokaze Gameboy	Kirokaze	lospec.com/palette-list/kirokaze-gameboy
Ice Cream GB	Kerrie Lake	lospec.com/palette-list/ice-cream-gb
SLSO8	Luis Miguel Maldonado	lospec.com/palette-list/slso8
Nyx8	Javier Guerrero	lospec.com/palette-list/nyx8
PICO-8	Lexaloffle Games	lospec.com/palette-list/pico-8
Sweetie 16	GrafxKid	lospec.com/palette-list/sweetie-16
Lost Century	SurrealEmber	lospec.com/palette-list/lost-century
Fantasy 24	Gabriel C	lospec.com/palette-list/fantasy-24
Endesga 32	ENDESGA	lospec.com/palette-list/endesga-32
Apollo	AdamCYounis	lospec.com/palette-list/apollo
Resurrect 64	Kerrie Lake	lospec.com/palette-list/resurrect-64

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​Style Profiles

​Palettes

​Camera Rigs

​Use the samples in your own project

​Removing or restoring the samples

​Credits

​Next steps

Quick start

Style Profiles

Sample Pixelate Assets

Style Profiles

Palettes

Camera Rigs

Use the samples in your own project

Removing or restoring the samples

Credits

Next steps