# What's new in version 14 / Unity 2022.2

This page contains an overview of new features, improvements, and issues resolved in version 14 of the Visual Effect Graph, embedded in Unity 2022.2.

## Added

The following is a list of features Unity added to version 14 of the Visual Effect Graph  embedded in Unity 2022.2. Each entry includes a summary of the feature and a link to any relevant documentation.

### Six way smoke

![Different smoke effects.](Images/VFX-WhatsNew14-2-still.png)

VFX Graph version 14 includes a new way to light smoke effects. You can now use custom lightmaps exported from third-party software to light your smoke texture. VFX Graph bakes six light directions from these lightmaps and uses them to light the smoke from every direction.

### Boolean ports

![Boolean ports with Blocks in the VFX Graph window.](Images/VFX-WhatsNew14-6.png)

Version 14 includes Boolean ports that you can use to activate or deactivate Blocks depending on logic operations. This feature also includes some implicit casts between numeral types and Booleans.

### 2D Shader Graph support

![A sprite running across a temple.](Images/VFX-WhatsNew14-3.png)

In this version, Visual Effect Graph supports Shader Graph’s 2D sub-targets that you can use to render your particles as sprites. To find the new sub-targets, go to **Create** > **Shader Graph** > **URP**. This feature is only available in the Universal Render Pipeline.

## Updated

The following is a list of improvements Unity made to the Visual Effect Graph in version 14, embedded in Unity 2022.2. Each entry includes a summary of the improvement and, if relevant, a link to any documentation.

### Timeline integration

![Unity's Timeline UI.](Images/VFX-WhatsNew14-4.gif)

VFX Graph 14 improves the workflow of visual effects in Timeline. You can use the new VFX Animation clip to scrub through and control VFX Graph [Events](Events.md). You can also control how the effect reinitializes and pre-warm the effect. For more information, see [Timeline](Timeline.md).

### Skinned mesh sampling

![Sample Skinned Mesh Operator in the VFX Graph window and its output of a person with colourful arrows.](Images/VFX-WhatsNew14-5.gif)

In VFX Graph 14 improves aspects of the Skinned Mesh Renderer Sampling based on your feedback in the following ways:

- You can now retrieve the position velocity directly in the **Sample Skinned Mesh** Operator.
- You can orient particles in the transform, defined by the sampled tangent and normal.
- Root bone transform options are now integrated into the block or operator, which means you don’t need to use a property binder.

## Fixed

For information on issues resolved in version 14 of the Visual Effect Graph, embedded in Unity 2022.1, see the [changelog](../changelog/CHANGELOG.html).