Stylized Nature – Cave Entrances Pack

LATEST UPDATE - v1.1.0

• Multi-Pipeline Support: Added Built-in and HDRP support alongside URP in a single package, compatible with Unity 2022.3 LTS and Unity 6.
• One-Click Scene Setup: Automatically configures cameras, lighting, and HDRP sky/exposure for the active render pipeline.
• Improved Ground Materials: All five biomes now use a multi-pipeline shader.
• Optimized Textures: Reduced 165 textures from 4K to 2K, significantly decreasing package size while preserving existing references.
• Cleaner Demo Scenes: Removed optional pipeline-specific and internal tool dependencies.
• Updated Documentation: Added setup instructions, compatibility information, texture specifications, and LOD/collision details.

Actively maintained and updated by Arkerion Studios.

WebGL demo:

Give your landscape a distinctive cave entrance with prepared rock forms and five coordinated visual themes.

Stylized Nature - Cave Entrances Pack by Arkerion Studios provides cave mouths, rock arches, overhangs, and cliff transitions for building recognizable entrances and rocky landmarks in Unity. Choose a form that suits your approach, then use the corresponding theme to fit its surroundings.

The Basic theme pairs stylized stone with green moss coverage for forest edges, rocky hillsides, and natural cave landmarks.

The Desert theme uses warm, sandy surface tones for dry canyon walls, desert cave mouths, and arid mountain passes.

The Ice theme combines icy blue surfaces, high smoothness, and snow-texture coverage for frozen cliffs and snowy cave entrances.

The Jungle theme uses its own moss texture and green coverage to place cave entrances among lush rock formations and tropical landscapes.

The Lava theme combines dark rock with emission textures for glowing volcanic cave mouths. Its wall-surface material also exposes lava mask and pulse controls.

Included cave entrance and rock forms:

• Standard, tall, wide, low, sloped, asymmetric, and collapsed cave entrances
• Standalone cave mouth
• Left and right cliff-to-cave transitions
• Wide rock arch
• Rock bridge entrance
• Long and small rock overhangs
• Cliff wall surfaces in five themes

The package contains 75 prefabs: 14 entrance/rock forms in each of five themes, plus five cliff wall surfaces. Materials are assigned on the documented prefabs, giving you a prepared starting point for placing entrances and surrounding formations.

The 70 themed entrance/rock prefabs include three LOD levels and concave MeshColliders. Each wall-surface prefab includes four BoxColliders and has no reported LOD breakdown.

Shader Graph materials expose surface-cover color, coverage, texture scale, normal detail, and smoothness controls. Ground/wall shaders add triplanar projection and cover masks, while Lava materials include emission textures and the lava wall shader exposes mask and pulse parameters. Available controls depend on the selected material.

Arrange entrance forms, cliff transitions, arches, and overhangs to shape different cave approaches. Use the matching theme materials to carry the look across entrance and wall surfaces.

Perfect for:

• Fantasy cave entrances
• Forest and moss-covered rock landmarks
• Desert canyon approaches
• Frozen mountain cave mouths
• Jungle exploration environments
• Volcanic dungeon approaches
• Adventure-game landscapes
• RPG environment prototypes

UPDATE HISTORY

v1.1.0 - Multi-Pipeline Support

• Added Built-in, URP, and HDRP support in a single package.
• Added Unity 6 compatibility.
• Added one-click demo scene setup for the active render pipeline.
• Optimized textures from 4K to 2K to reduce package size.
• Updated ground materials with a multi-pipeline shader.
• Removed optional pipeline and internal tool dependencies from demo scenes.
• Fixed ground material rendering outside URP.
• Updated documentation.

v1.0.0 - Initial Release

• Released 75 prefabs across five visual themes: Basic, Desert, Ice, Jungle, and Lava.
• Included 14 cave entrance and rock forms per theme, plus five cliff wall surfaces.
• Added three LOD levels and MeshColliders for entrance and rock prefabs.
• Included customizable Shader Graph materials.
• Added demo scenes and WebGL previews.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Compatibility

• Unity versions: Unity 2022.3 LTS and Unity 6
• Render pipelines: Built-in, URP, HDRP
• Environment themes: Basic, Desert, Ice, Jungle, Lava

Package Contents

• Textures: 194 (including lightmaps and reflection probes)
• Models: 16 source assets (14 entrance/rock forms, 1 cliff wall surface, 1 placement preview)
• Prefabs: 75 (70 themed entrance/rock prefabs and 5 cliff wall surfaces)
• Materials: 115 (including source and preview materials)
• Shaders: 6
• Scenes: 6 (5 themed demo scenes and 1 asset-preview scene)

Texture Resolutions

• 174 textures at 2048 × 2048
• 14 textures at 1024 × 1024
• 6 textures at 128 × 128

Polygon Counts (Triangles)

• LOD0: 17,812–22,677 triangles
• LOD1: 8,827–11,615 triangles
• LOD2: 5,232–6,872 triangles
• Cliff wall surface: 29,866 triangles
• Placement preview assembly: 320,640 triangles (separate preview model)

LODs & Colliders

• 3 LOD levels (LOD0, LOD1, LOD2) for all 70 themed entrance/rock prefabs
• 1 concave MeshCollider per entrance/rock prefab
• 4 BoxColliders per cliff wall-surface prefab

Shaders

• Shader Graphs/ArkerionHardSurface
• Shader Graphs/ArkerionHardSurfaceEmission
• Shader Graphs/ArkerionGroundMesh
• Shader Graphs/ArkerionGroundLava
• Universal Render Pipeline/Lit
• Arkerion Studios/Wireframe Overlay

Materials & Customization

• Adjustable surface-cover color, coverage, slope, and texture scale
• Customizable normal strength, detail, and smoothness
• Triplanar projection and cover masks for ground/wall materials
• Emission textures for Lava entrance materials
• Lava mask and pulse controls for volcanic wall surfaces

Available material controls vary by shader and material.

Texture Maps

• Base Color / Albedo
• Normal and Detail Normal
• Surface Cover
• Emission