How to Create Zelda-Inspired Explosion VFX in Unreal Engine | Level Up - VFX Breakdown | Beyond-FX

🧚‍♂️ Hey, listen!
Today in Level Up - our #VFX explainer series - Senior II VFX Artist Nathan Huang breaks down how to create this Zelda-inspired real-time explosion in ‪@UnrealEngine‬. 💥
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00:00 - Intro
01:03 - Flares
01:38 - Streaks
03:46 - Point Light
04:10 - Smoke
06:34 - Embers
07:22 - Shockwave (Camera-Facing)
07:59 - Ground Shockwave
08:32 - Debris
11:04 - Ribbon Trails
13:56 - Ember Trails
15:30 - FINAL EFFECT
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[@prestonschulz9359]

Nathan, killing it as usual!

[@TheMysticHead]

this is great - thanks so much for posting this and walking through it!

[@Beyond-FX]

Glad you enjoyed it, more coming soon!

[@VinoVenitas]

I seriously tried my best to recreate this, but that streak particle effect ... I need a WAY better look or an explanation on what happens in that Streak particle material. Its too bad though, I loved this effect

[@alexandreblaise123]

You've just save me of being stuck with trails parameters
Thanks and great tutorial !!

[@Beyond-FX]

Great to hear!

[@handsomejack3057]

Man i have watch so many tutorials and breakdowns and never see one that look that complex, im learning so this just makes me feel that theres a ton to me to still learn, where can i learn complex materials like those? btw, the vfx looks amazingly good

[@Beyond-FX]

Thanks! There's lots of resources here on TH-cam and also Realtimevfx.com is a great community to learn from

[@ZombieGuyDevelopment]

Any chance you could release the project files?

[@Beyond-FX]

Thanks for the feedback, we'll look into that for future videos!

[@hotsauce7124]

May I ask, how do you use Function library for VFX?

[@davy4842]

Can we have an ice nova effect

[@user-mq7pf4zx7g]

Can you share the engineering files? I really hope to learn from it! After watching the videos, I felt like I was standing on the shoulders of giants, but I couldn't fully grasp the methods in these videos.

[@nemuruvfx]

Is Spawn particle from other emitter a UE 5.3 Feature? Looks like a very useful module! I really liked the debugging nodes for the erosion method I would tend to use a debug time sine but this method seems to go from 0-1.

[@Nah4Realz]

Yeah, I originally did use location events for the child emitters. But found Spawn particle from other emitters more flexible. I made it in UE 5.0.3 btw. If you look into the debug time sine material function its actually exactly the same thing that's built here!

[@nemuruvfx]

@@Nah4Realz Whoa! that's awesome it really is the same. I also used location events and this pretty much simplifies the process.

[@davidwilson932]

Looks amazing. Do you recommend any Niagara courses? There doesn't seem to be many premium courses out right now

[@Beyond-FX]

Stay tuned, we have a series of videos coming soon that dig into the basics of Niagara!

[@BucketKingu]

Quick question: You have that material function "MF_TilingScrolling" used a lot. How's that material function set up?

[@Nah4Realz]

It has tiling and panner controls on it. I'm also adding an option to add Particle Random to the UVs, so if its a tileable texture it'll be randomly offset per particle

[@ManojKumar-cy8jo]

Can u explain it even more please. Because I'm new to materials and i just copied everything from the video but only this "MF_TilingScrolling" Function is missing in my Material.@@Nah4Realz​

[@Ipelachoi]

more tuto please!!!

[@Beyond-FX]

Stay tuned!

[@pamparam3495]

The effect is great but the guide is a pretty bad, you jumping from one thing to another too fast without showing all things

[@Beyond-FX]

Thanks for the feedback, we'll work on that!