--- title: Procedural Manta Ray System Made With Unity | daily.dev description: Jawad Srour built a fully procedural manta ray animation system in Unity without baked animations or skeletal rigs. The swimming motion is generated entirely... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/procedural-manta-ray-system-made-with-unity-uyuf56cfw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Procedural Manta Ray System Made With Unity | daily.dev og:description: Jawad Srour built a fully procedural manta ray animation system in Unity without baked animations or skeletal rigs. The swimming motion is generated entirely... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/procedural-manta-ray-system-made-with-unity-uyuf56cfw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uyuf56CfW.png og:image:alt: Procedural Manta Ray System Made With Unity og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Procedural Manta Ray System Made With Unity **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Jawad Srour built a fully procedural manta ray animation system in Unity without baked animations or skeletal rigs. The swimming motion is generated entirely on the GPU using Unity's VFX Graph and Shader Graph, with each ray's motion driven by an accumulated phase value synchronized with the VFX simulation. Procedural texturing and randomized attributes add natural variation, while LOD swapping and GPU-side computation keep the system optimized and scalable. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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