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I read that triplanar projection requires sampling the texture 3 times for each dimension? This just comparing the position of the vertices in space and adjusting the texture based on if statements? I guess you could call it triplanar but it functions a bit differently, unless I'm missing something. The IF nodes could sample the texture for each scenario I think? It seems to work properly on landscape to reduce Z stretch so I'm guessing it's similar?

For radial masks, it's also more performant to use a flat plane and modify the texture coordinates to be radial with the vector to radial node inside the material editor

For gradient mapping, you can use color curves instead of an image texture, this is more performant on draw calls.

Just by the way, distorting your UV's with just an R channel your texture will be moved in a diagonal direction. It's better to deriveZnormal and append or use a normal maps RG

Как!?

Thanks for sharing! 😊

Very cool, love the waterfall style Can 'Generate Location Event' be used to attach other actors to the particle too? Can the Location data be passed to other blueprints for example - Thanks in advance

that is really cool !

The explosion was the peak! So good and interesting

This is soooo good! Would love to create something like this that doesn’t tank performance! 😉

Thank you so much for this!!! One quick question, what would cause the effect to flow from the outside inwards rather than the way you have it?

damn thank you for this. the world position function node is super limiting so being able to get the triplanar effect without using it helps a lot with layering

It was extremely helpful, thank you <3

that was useful

I was messing around in Unreal Engine last night and did similar with that Starter Content rifle. I made it so that the spherical projectiles have emissive properties, so they glow and emit a blue light. And made it so that firing the gun produces a classic Doom Plasma Rifle sound effect. And I made it so that an explosion visual effect is created when the projectiles impact a surface, and leave behind flames, with smoke billowing from the flames. Then I also added an explosion sound effect to the projectile impact and I added fire sound effect to the flames. Then I disabled the projectile bounce. So when the projectiles impact a wall or object, they disappear immediately - while simultaneously triggering the explosion effects I mentioned previously. And finally, I greatly increased the projectile speed and tampered with the physics applied to them. So the projectiles fly through the air extremely fast and travel a much greater distance. I basically made my own 'Plasma Rifle'. I felt pretty good about myself, since I managed to figure all that out without any guides or tutorials. I just sat here looking at the blueprints and messing around until I figured it all out on my own. Made me feel smart

Brother, how do you do the UI interaction?

2:40 Isn't better to just add a LERP between -1 and 1 and use the distortion texture as alpha?

dont work 5.4.3

I met tik tok, where your effect is passed off as the work of AI and scares that soon artists will not be needed)) Congratulations, you are a star!)

Hi, this is a great video. I would like to ask you about the correct process for creating special effects. Do you first use the particle system to make a module, and then slowly create materials to replace the particles?

Hey Geo, do you ever do hourly paid consulting? I'm working on new project and am looking to get some guidance.

10 months, nah lol

Niiiiiice!

Cool effects!

This reminds me of Torvald(Paladins) attacks. sooooo coool!

Brilliant, looks so clean and polished. Is it cpu or gpu based? If its gpu based I'm interested to know how the collisions on the sphere work

I just started the world of vfx with niagara, and I really like it, just like modeling. But I didn't think that an effect like that would take so much time. Why does it take so long? anyway, congratulations for the effect. truly phenomenal

Are the outer spikes also niagara? or a combination of UI stuffs? Super neat effect nonetheless!

so cool !! I hope there will be a tutorial because you explain things well!!

I love it, that is worth ten months! :D amazing job!

You are cool

Could you teach us how can you do it or any source ? thanks

THE BEST

This is really cool. I wish it could easily apply to all sides of a cube.

thank you very much !

HOW is it that you thought the exact same way as me???? I am a software engineer too (cs degree but more trained in data science), and just want to become a concept artist in gaming industry!! (Asian too, sadly and ironically). I have the same feeling that programming is not right for me and I am just "living by" and not reaching my potential. Although most of my colleagues are just as not passtionate as I am hahaha. I am fine with coding front end, if it's not too challenging, but dealing with current management and daily schedule is another story. Backend, I can't bear it at all lol, but SDE is good pay, and everyone else is doing it so you feel like "it's by default what a Chinese student/worker in US should do". But I don't have the motivation to get any higher or do leetcodes to jump to another company. How am I going to make a career out of this? My company sucks btw, everyone is stressed out and just wanted to leave :(. Like you said, even if I were able to climb the ladder to reach the management level... well, I don't quite even want to to begin with... I wouldn't like that kind of life. During the past 1-2 years a lot of things happened. That had got me reconsidering what I really want to do in my life. Do I want to make my dream come true or is it only a dream? I asked myself "if you are gonna die tmr, what are you going to regret about that you didn't do?" For me it's "Not living up to my potential and have my own work (like manga)", but defo not "doing enough leetcode to get me into FAANG with big signon packages" lol. I have long passion in art too - not painting but line art, like manga, storyboards, etc., but my skills are only hobby level and super basic. I like to plot and write storylines too. Drawing is essentially something I would do the entire night, fully immerse myself into. In my vision of a "successful" life (I do want to climb that corporate ladder, just in the right path), I am not sure if being an artist can lead me to that, since we all know that artists don't make much, but I am very sure it's not as some sort of "director of SDE" either lol. In fact instead of becoming a concept artist so fast - like you originally planned, which I know will take a looooong time for me - I was directly looking into technical artist, where I get to still use my programming skills and not waste my used-to-be-smart brain lol. But the thing is I don't know if I will like being a TA or not, or how long it's gonna take to find a new job, considering the current market. But I am not plannning to quit my current job (I do have to work to legally maintain my status in US for now and I want income lol), will just learn myself on the way, and I am already anxious enough so I really get you. Also considering how horrible work env is at my company, time is ticking for me :(. I do have the worry about paycut too, but I mean in my company with a good salary isn't making me any happier, but depressed instead. I was in fact happier and more passionate while I was working as a data scientist before with minimum pay required by US labor law lol. Thank you so much for sharing this. Your journey (still, pretty fast and impressive!) has encouraged me that others can do it too, even without too much experience. Please keep posting your journey and sharing your experience!! Means a lot for fellow career transitioners, especially who are in the exact same situation as you, albeit I'm probably older XD Also if you don't mind me asking, what programming languages are mostly used for VFX? I may have to learn new language in order to become a TA... If being a TA/VFX artist, do you still need to learn all those drawing fundamentals like composition, anatomy, etc.? Do you have any good resources to learn TA? Sorry I am asking too much, I just feel like I found my gang lol 找到组织了！🥺

Such a great tutorial with all the details. I've always worked with nodes without really knowing the math behind them. Thank you so much!

The style is so cute! Definitely a must tutorial…. Would you be doing a series for stylized explosions too? I’ve only found 1 okay-ish tutorial on it…

Great tutorial, sir. 👏👏

Thank you so much

Did epic games care if you had a degree or did they hire you based off of your art that you were posting?

Unfortunately this didn't work for me, followed the video EXACTLY (twice!) with a wall with a brick wall texture, but the base colour texture even when set to "wrap" (which was the default it was set to anyway) just ended up with the brick wall displayed correctly at anything at scale 1 or below, but then showed up some other stuff which was part of the base colour texture (looked like the bits used on the edges of the wall and some other stuff (no idea what) in the texture were all displayed on the face of the wall I created! Oh well! :o(

finally a good tutorial , why was it so hard for youtube to recommend it to me , ive been searching all day

thats nice, sadly not tutorial :(

Extremely helpful. Great Explanation, not too long, and you explained everything you did. Thank you, will recommend this to others

is it possible to make a shortcut, shortkey for "Append Vector 2d"?

10:42 - Star doesn't work in UE 5.3 :( Probably Constant Bias Settings has changed

followed exactly, it works in the niagara viewport but in the scene it just explodes joining all the ribbons toghether at the world origin, anyone has ideas?

ahhhhhhh I've been looking for a video like this! Ive seen so many tutorials where they just drop in the node but never mention the shortcut 😭 This is so helpful thanks!

Thanks for the information. Very useful.