June is just a normal Unity shader at the end of the day - you can use it anywhere Unity shaders are supported! VRChat worlds and avatars, Unity games, Beat Saber mods, any game moddable with BepinEx, and more.

All of the scripts packed with June are simply helpful tools to use in the Editor, and none are required for June to function. Besides the .shader, June has no dependencies!

June is designed to work well in both Desktop and PCVR. As of writing this, VRChat does not support custom shaders on Quest Standalone, so June will not show up there.

June requires nothing more than a few clicks to use! :)

Inside, you'll find it is all packaged beneath one big user interface that lives on your material (like any other shader in Unity). From there, you just pick and choose in the interface what effects you want to use, tweak their settings, and you're good to go! Everything, from locking in optimised shaders to searching for effects, is made to be as accessible as possible. You never have to leave the material inspector to set up effects.

I designed it to be easy to use because, well, I wanted to use it myself and would struggle if it was difficult :')

June is performant! Or, er, as performant as it can be. Naturally, using shaders and post-processing will always have SOME overhead - running code isn't free, afterall. But.. there are a lot of considerations and technical deets to go over in regards to performance, so I'll give a quick summary as to why June is performant by design!

From the ground up, June was built to be modular. Every module is bound to a keyword that your materials store and tell Unity what internal version of the shader to use - that way, it only compiles code you need. That's why you might see a short stutter when enabling new combinations of modules (it's building that shader variant)! This slight annoyance in the editor is worth it big-time for runtime performance.

Beyond that, June has a custom pre-processor that analyses your material and generates a new, single .shader file with only the code you need. It's basically a more permanent version of the keyword system (but you can always unlock!), so you don't have to ever deal with Unity stuttering over compiling variants once you're sure of what you need. It drops a lot more dead code, too, so it's like.. super helpful.

Finally, June is just built to be performant. It culls itself to users who are too far away, uses quicker math where possible (such as avoiding expensive methods pow()), only uses one grabpass for all your effects (unless you need past frames in the Motion module), is contained to one material on one cube, and does it's best to avoid a lot of loops and pre-calculates things (such as blur weights) beforehand to save on run-time performance.

All in all, you can never avoid the cost of running shaders, but June is built to be as efficient as possible with the resources it has! And it helps to have full transparency about what settings impact performance the most, which June has with its performance rating system (just click the icon next to an effect to get a score out of 100 on how intense it is)! Sorry, this was long. But I hope it helps someone. Maybe. :)

June is a one-time purchase - you don't need to subscribe to a Patreon to get updates for what you already paid for. (^.~)

When you buy June, you get an authentication code that works across an unlimited number of projects, computers, whatever. No data about you or your devices is sent/stored - the authentication code simply "watermarks" the code in your copy of June in case it is used to pirate.

Tl;dr: Buy once, use forever, no restrictions (within the terms). Just don't pirate it please. ;_;

Yes! Please reach out to me through any of my provided contacts (Discord and Email are probably the ones I reply to the fastest) and let me know what you are using it for and what your use case is!

Well.. that's a hard one to answer... (×﹏×)

In all reality, June is a HUGE project - and it will continue to be until I stop working on it (hopefully never.. but.. well, no promises). It's packed with tonnes of effects, tools, a custom UI, a pre-processor, and a lot more, in addition to being optimised for VRChat and battle-tested. It takes serious work and at the end of the day, it's just me making it. I also HATE subscriptions and I am sure a lot of you do too! I never want to have to resort to re-releasing June or a Patreon model for updates, and I want it to always be a one-time purchase, so that is also factored into the cost. Pricing June this way allows me to continue developing it with all my heart's love and I am so happy with how far it has come already!

I do understand the difficulties of being in a difficult financial situation on a personal level, and I never went money to gatekeep creativity. If you are struggling to afford June, please reach out to me and maybe we can work something out? There is, also, June Lite - the free sister shader of June.

Overall, I try my best to be fair and June has remained the same price since its initial release despite the massive growth in content and popularity. I hope to always keep it this way and I hope you see this as fair too. ╰(*´︶`*)╯♡