Moonlit Spell Circles — Hand Magic for VRChat

▶ VRChat avatar effect · PC only · needs Modular Avatar (free, from VCC) · drag-and-drop prefab

✨ Moonlight magic for your hands. Open your hand and a magic circle draws itself in front of your palm, ring by ring, and keeps turning.
✨ Make a fist: a star orb charges in it while sparks spiral in. Open the fist: it bursts into a shock ring and a spray of star sparks.
✨ Point: your index fingertip leaves a thin trail of light, so you can draw in the air.
✨ Turn on the ground circle and a large circle rises under your feet.

HAND GESTURES (each hand on its own)
• Open hand: a spell circle draws itself in front of the palm in 0.8 s, then keeps turning
• Fist: a star orb gathers in 0.5 s, sparks spiral into it
• Open the fist: a shock ring, rays of light and star sparks off the palm (0.9 s)
• Point: the fingertip draws a trail of light; each stroke fades after 1 s
They run on VRChat's own hand gestures, so everyone around you sees them, and they add no synced parameters. They only add light: hand-gesture facial expressions keep working.

MENU (Moonlit Spell)
• Gesture spells: the gestures above on / off (remembered)
• Palm circles: a circle in front of both palms all the time
• Ground circle: a 2 m circle under your feet, rising in 1.2 s
• Colour: Moon (silver-blue) · Amethyst (violet) · Ember (warm gold) (remembered)
• Glow: a radial, 0–100% brightness (remembered)

WHAT YOU GET
• 1 prefab, drag it onto your avatar (Modular Avatar puts the menu, parameters and animator in at upload)
• 3 shaders, 1 texture, materials, menu, animator
• README in English and Japanese

PERFORMANCE
• 14 tris · 3 mesh renderers · 2 trail renderers · 3 materials · 1 texture · no lights
• 4 particle systems, at most 224 particles in all
• no contacts · no parameter drivers · 19 synced bits
• PC only (custom shaders)

GOOD TO KNOW
• Needs Modular Avatar (free, from the VRChat Creator Companion).
• Placed for the VRChat SDK's sample avatar: on yours, move the Palm or Trail object once if a circle sits inside your hand.
• The trails need index finger bones (most avatars have them).
• On controllers that read your grip (like Index), a full grip is a fist: turn Gesture spells off while you hold things.
• People who block custom shaders in their Safety settings won't see the effect.

SUPPORT
If a gesture or anything else doesn't work as described in VRChat, message me on Jinxxy: I'll fix it and send you the update for free.

TESTED WITH
Unity 2022.3.22f1 · VRChat SDK 3.10.5 · Modular Avatar 1.18.7

AI DISCLOSURE (AI-Assisted)
The shaders, the code that builds this effect and the text on this page were written with help from an AI assistant. An AI image generator made rough concept sketches I looked at while designing; nothing it made is in the files or in the preview images, which are rendered in Unity from the actual effect.

TERMS
• OK to use on your avatar in VRChat and other platforms
• OK to stream, record, and post on social media
• Editing is fine
• Please don't redistribute or resell the files, edited or not

UPDATES
• v1.0.0 (2026-10-28) first release