Build Stunning Real-time VFX with Unreal Engine 5: Start your journey into Unreal particle systems to create realistic visual effects using Niagara by Hrishikesh Andurlekar

Build Stunning Real-time VFX with Unreal Engine 5: Start your journey into Unreal particle systems to create realistic visual effects using Niagara
Hrishikesh Andurlekar
Page: 247
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9781801072410
Publisher: Packt Publishing
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Confidently create professional real-time particle systems and particle asset creation workflows for games using Niagara and Unreal Engine 5 Create stunning particle systems in Unreal Engine 5 using Niagara to make your games pop Level up your VFX skills and enhance your employability in a competitive market Build various particle system projects to reinforce your learning and practice your new knowledge No game would be complete without visual effects (VFX), and you can make your games sing with stunning particle systems so that it stands out from the common herd. Build Stunning Real-time VFX with Unreal Engine 5 is here to help you use Niagara to make jaw-dropping particle systems backed by the power of Unreal Engine 5, without a line of code. This handy guide for VFX artists takes you through the principles and concepts of designing particle systems and design workflows, along with the architecture of Niagara, Unreal Engine 5's VFX system. You won't just learn the theory, though: throughout the book, you'll build a series of mini-projects to put your particle system knowledge to the test. You'll move onto advanced topics, such as creating your own custom modules, debugging workflows, and controlling particles with blueprints, and you'll finish the book off with two projects that will bring everything together into a neat little package. By the end of the book, you will understand that professional real-time particle system workflows have a better chance of being employed in a studio using Unreal Engine 5 thanks to your great knowledge of particle systems. Brush up your vector mathematics skills Access and create namespaces in Niagara Add a Niagara system to a Blueprint actor Create a particle system with dynamic inputs Publish a custom module so team members can use it Enable your particle emitters to communicate using event handlers Make your character disintegrate with particle effects Build realistic flocks of birds for your scenes This book would be useful to visual effects artists transitioning to real-time virtual production workflow as well as beginners wanting to learn Niagara for games and other real-time applications. This book will also benefit game programmers, 3D generalists, game designers who are interested in adding VFX for their game and metaverse projects. You will need to have a basic understanding of Unreal Engine 5 and be familiar with layout, materials and lighting in Unreal Engine and have some basic knowledge of blueprints. Getting Started with Unreal Engine Particles System Frameworks Understanding Particle System Concepts Niagara Concept and Architecture Building Our First Niagara System Diving into Emitter-System Hierarchy and Overrides Exploring Dynamic Inputs Creating Custom Niagara Modules Events and Event Handlers Debugging workflow in Niagara Controlling Niagara Particles using Blueprints Implementing Character disintegration effect and bird flocking behaviour

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